The Young Lawyer's Jungle Book: A Survival Guide (2nd Edition) - Softcover

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Attorney, adjunct professor of business law, and author of The Young Lawyer's Jungle Book: A Survival Guide; Law School: Getting In, Getting Good, Getting the Gold; and Con Law: Avoiding...or Beating...the Scam of the Century (The Real Student's Guide to Law School and the Legal Profession).

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Your first year as a lawyer will be one of the most stressful you will ever face.

No, that's not quite right. Your first year as a lawyer will be THE most stressful you will ever face. Even your first year in law school won't quite compare, because there, at least, you were your own taskmaster. You could in some small way control the day-to-day goings-on in your frantic rush to master those Byzantine rules of law swirling about.

In law practice, you will have no such luxury.

Well, that's not quite right either. You will have fairly broad minute-by-minute control over your workday, but at a steep price: the pressure on you to rack up the hours and finish the rapid progression of projects. As young professionals in every discipline soon learn, your life is not your own.

You will be expected to serve the needs of your clients. This is both better--and worse--than it sounds. Better because being King's counsel has its privileges. Worse because the King can be--and often is--both demanding and unforgiving.