Is Law for You?: Deciding If You Want to Study Law - Softcover

This book is a must-read guide for students thinking of studying law and, indeed, for anyone interested in the law. Author Chris Stoakes - known for his ability to make complex subjects simple - approaches the law in a new and compelling way, explaining the basic legal principles but marrying them up with the practice of law, explaining the different areas of specialisation, types of law firm, how they are organised and what it is like being a lawyer. Throughout, he draws on his unique career in and around the law, as a City solicitor, a partner in a law firm, a legal journalist and editor, a law teacher, a tutor on an MBA for lawyers and a management consultant who has advised law firms and in-house legal departments.

Chris Stoakes is the author of a number of best-selling books on the financial markets, law and business that students praise for making complex subjects easy to understand and enjoyable to read. By profession a lawyer, he has held various senior positions in law firms including head of legal training and director of knowledge management at a top ten global law firm. He has also been a consultant to what is now the University of Law. Chris is an award-winning designer of innovative legal training programmes and has trained lawyers in effective writing and commercial awareness. Chris read law at Worcester College, Oxford and qualified at Freshfields.