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INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE WRITERS’ TRUST SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE WINNER OF THE OTTAWA BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION ​Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Beverley McLachlin offers an intimate and revealing look at her life, from her childhood in the Alberta...

So You Want to Be a Lawyer takes you through the process of becoming a lawyer, examining each phase in a helpful and easy-to-understand narrative. Find out what practicing law is like before you step into your first law school class! Practice solving legal problems as law students would in law school, and lawyers might in an actual courtroom.

Each year in the US, a quarter of a million deaths are attributable to medical error. If the number shocks, on some level you already knew it was so. Everyone knows someone - perhaps it was yourself - who has suffered miserable treatment in American hospitals, part of the most elaborate, most extensive and expensive health-care system in the world. But it is perhaps the most inefficient. Misdiagnoses, wrong prescriptions, operating on the wrong patient, even operating on the wrong limb (and amputating it).

In Paralegals Should Be Millionaires, legal entrepreneur and paralegal powerhouse Jaclyn Foster delivers a bold and practical roadmap for paralegals ready to ditch traditional limits and step into entrepreneurial success. Whether you're a freelance paralegal, in-house paralegal, legal assistant, or law student exploring your options—this book will shake up how you think about your role in the legal industry and what’s possible for your future.

The natural limits of the human body make us vulnerable and therefore dependent, throughout our lives, on others. Yet American law and policy disregard these stubborn facts, with statutes and judicial decisions that presume people to be autonomous, defined by their capacity to choose. As legal scholar O. Carter Snead points out, this individualistic ideology captures important truths about human freedom, but it also means that we have no obligations to each other unless we actively, voluntarily embrace them.

Discover gripping true crime stories and the surprising tools you need to keep you and your family safe -- from iconic legal commentator, TV journalist, and New York Times bestselling author Nancy Grace. Nancy Grace wasn't always the iconic legal commentator we know today. One moment changed her...

Each year, over 40,000 new students enter America's law schools. Each new crop experiences high rates of depression, anxiety, fatigue, and dissatisfaction. Kathryne Young was one of those students and set out to learn more about the law school experience and how to improve it for future students. Combining her own observations and experiences with the results of her study and the latest sociological research on law schools, Young offers a very different take from previous books about law school survival.

Activists from Henry David Thoreau and Mohandas Gandhi to the Movement for Black Lives have long recognized that there are times when, rather than having a duty to obey the law, we have a duty to disobey it. Taking seriously the history of this activism, A Duty to Resist wrestles with the problem of political obligation in real world societies that harbor injustice. Candice Delmas argues that the duty of justice, the principle of fairness, the Samaritan duty, and political association impose responsibility to resist under conditions of injustice.

Why do some people want to erase themselves completely from the Internet? I used to wonder about the same till I found the reason and had to do it myself. I am sure if you are considering this book, you too have a reason, but going through this process, I have learned a few valuable lessons. This book is all about those lessons, so you don't have to learn on the go as I had to. Instead, you can use this book as a guide and just follow the step by step process and see yourself disappear from the big World Wide Web.

From the outside, being a landlord may look like an easy job. Once a month you greet your tenants, collect rent from them, and leave. Being a landlord is not as simple as it seems. Just like tenants have their share of responsibilities, so do you as their landlord and property manager. For first-time landlords, all of this can be very overwhelming.

Leaving your husband and getting divorced is a big deal, even when it's your idea. But how do you know if you're making the right decision for you, and if you are, what's the first thing you need to do? How to be a Lady Who Leaves answers all these questions and more. From understanding the divorce legal process in England and Wales, to getting to grips with your finances, this book shows you how. Worrying how your children will cope with your divorce and how to manage your own emotions? This book covers that too.

This timely audiobook challenges conventional business wisdom about competition, secrecy, motivation, and creativity. Orly Lobel, an internationally acclaimed expert in the law and economics of human capital, warns that a set of counterproductive mentalities are stifling innovation in many regions and companies.

The Bar Exam BE§T MODE™ method takes a broad approach to preparing for the bar exam in any jurisdiction. It is a strategy meant to complement and supplement your commercial bar prep course. The approach includes improving mental focus, emotional well-being, clarity of purpose, and physical health. All these attributes come together to impact the overall performance of the brain when taking the test.

A thin, balding, and reclusive middle-aged Russian by the name of Rudolf Ivanovich Abel was one of the Soviet Union's most renowned spies during the Cold War of the 1950s . . . . until his cover was blown by an incompetent colleague who wanted to defect to the United States. This is the full account of Abel's espionage work, his dramatic apprehension, his eventual conviction and its affirmation by the United States Supreme Court, and finally, his surprising release back to Russia.

Why Should I Care? I'll Be Dead: The Ultimate Guide to Estate Planning & a Guaranteed Way to Leave a Billion Dollars is a beginner's guide to estate planning. Taylor Willingham and Carla Alston, two estate-planning attorneys, have drafted over 5,000 estate plans. They first tackle the question of why someone should do estate planning. The second part is what you should be concerned about when drafting your documents. Last is how to preserve your estate, with techniques and ideas to protect what you have created.

Lawyers are trained to work within the system. We’re not advocates for revolution. Most of us aren’t even comfortable being labelled “activists”. But when the rule of law is in peril, as it is like never before, it is our duty to not just practice law, but to protect it. This book tells the story of 14 “legal heroes” who have responded to the crises of the Trump presidency in innovative and inspiring ways, from advocating for asylum seekers on the southern border, to defending environmental protections in the nation’s highest courts.

If you got called for jury duty, you definitely want to listen to this book. If you didn't get called for jury duty but you're a fan of real life courtroom drama. This book is a must listen.

Flint, Michigan's water crisis, the New Jersey "Bridgegate" scandal, Enron: All these incidents are examples of various forms of leadership failure. More specifically, each represents marked failures among leaders with legal training. Dangerous Leaders exposes the risks and results of leaving lawyers unprepared to lead. It provides law schools, law students, and the legal profession with the leadership tools and models to build a better foundation of leadership acumen.

There are successful individuals out there who have never read a single book or who have never go through an hour inside a school hall. A few very rich people have never sent a single email in their life. Others have never worn suits and ties. Achievement comes in numerous shapes and structures. A winner’s mindset recognizes that whatever adversity they face, they will get effective. A failure's mentality surrenders when difficulties arise. Most of the population has a loser’s mindset. You need to build up a winning mindset, but it will be easier said than done.

Rotten Minerva lays out a new framework for being “spiritual” while existing in this crazy material reality. In it, author Kelli Hastings sets forth her personal ideology of life with the help of movie quotes, scientific references, and citations to religious scriptures—all interspersed with hilarious stories of her own misadventures on the spiritual path.