The Queen's Counsel - Official Lawyer's Handbook (Paperback)

The Queen's Counsel Official Lawyers' Handbook tells you the secrets they don't cover at law school or in the professional journals. The minutiae of lawyerly etiquette: Sucking up to sulky secretaries and making clappedout photocopiers work. Important principles of legal writing - never use one word where a hundred will do. Sure-fire ways to end a legal career - explain to a client how the time billed was really spent. The big philosophical issues: Legal ethics (and other oxymorons). How to handle romantic feelings towards a lawyer. Understanding what lawyers do - and how to stop them doing it to you. The paths to professional success: How to get into a top law firm - and stay there. Racking up billable hours the easy way. Partnership - you can make it if you know what to kiss...and whose.