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The Official Guide to Legal Specialties | 
| Author: National Association For Law Placement
Publisher: Harcourt Legal & Professional Publications, Inc.
Category: Book
Buy New: $21.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 58239
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 0159003911
Dewey Decimal Number: 340
EAN: 9780159003916
ASIN: 0159003911
Publication Date: December 15, 2000
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Product Description
With The Official Guide To Legal Specialties you'll get a behind the scenes glimpse at dozens of legal specialties.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 Good place to start January 22, 2008
This book is a good place to start, it gives a good overview for someone just exploring the different legal specialties out there.
I doesn't have as much detail as I would have liked, but I still think its a good place to start for anyone considering law school.
 Well written, but not as comprehensive as the title suggests May 24, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The book is a decent reference, but not nearly as comprehensive as I had hoped. Let me down a couple of times when I was looking for information about a particular specialty.
If you are a student, don't buy it. Check to see if your library, law library, or career services office has a copy and borrow it from them. There is little need for you to buy a copy of your own.
Good for those who are considering law as a profession May 6, 2007
details explaination of each specialization in law. worth reading for those who are considering law as a profession but not sure which field they are interested in.
 Every law student (or would be law student) should read this book March 11, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
As a law school career counselor, I can attest that one of the top challenges students face is determining what they want to do with their law degree and how to get what they want. This book goes a long way in helping to solve that riddle. I recommend it to every law student with whom I work. Each one who has followed my advice has praised the recomendation. My Admissions Office will not give me my personal copy back because they find it so useful.
This book lays out many of the typical and not-so-typical practice areas lawyers may enter, explaining what to expect, how to prepare for these jobs, and what employers are looking for. Law students will still need to do some self-analysis on what they are looking for, but this book will help immensely in sorting out areas that may work for them. It is especially helpful in that it may point them to areas they may not have thought of. I have seen many students gravitate towards areas because they are easy to understand or grasp onto. This book helps them open their eyes to many other areas.
A very useful book for yourself or to counsel others January 21, 2004
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I work in the career services field and have found this book very helpful in counselling law students. Most law students come into law school with a vague notion of what they want to do, but no sense of what it really means to practice a particular kind of law. Ms. Abrams book gives them a real-world account of what lawyers in each specialty do all day and what they can expect out of their careers. I'd highly recommend this to anyone considering a legal career or anyone helping those who are.
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