The Legal Career : Knowing the Business, Thriving in Practice

This coursebook addresses key topics in the evolving legal profession and the business of law.

The book features chapters on the traditional law firm; the corporate client; the emergence of alternative legal services providers; legal technology; access to justice; employment and diversity in the legal profession; and legal education reform.

Students will learn from detailed, insightful interviews of a broad range of legal industry professionals, including the general counsel of an international company; chief litigation officer of a Fortune100 company; director of knowledge management at a Biglaw firm; a legal innovator who founded a pioneering legal process outsourcing company; a legal industry consultant; and a legal tech startup CEO and co-founder.

Interactive exercises and questions for reflection and discussion are included throughout the book.