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Career and Networking Resources: Career Guidance

The Law Library's resources can be powerful tools for your job or internship search. Our resources can help you find employment opportunities, identify firms and businesses that you want to contact, and facilitate your research to prepare for interviews

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Whether you are a fledgling lawyer, a veteran practitioner, or someone looking to change course in their career, sound advice can be obtained from resources in the Law Library.

Research Tip:  Our books are grouped together by subject, if you find a resource that is what you are looking for, scan nearby shelves to see if any additional books might be of use to you!

Books

The selected books listed here provide useful information for job seekers of all levels, including advice on continuing professional development. You can find more titles by searching in IU's online catalog (IUCAT). 

Research Tip: When searching in IUCAT, try using (law or legal) and (career or "career guidance") as keywords.

Alternatively, you can come to the library and browse the shelves, most of our legal career books are cataloged between call numbers KF290 – KF300. 

Careers in IP Law: Avenues and Opportunities

Sharra S. Brockman

KF3165.Z9 B76 (2013)

Careers in International Law : A Guide to Career Paths in International Law : A Resource of the American Society of International Law

D. Wes Rist

K115 .C38 (2013)

100 plus pointers for new lawyers on adjusting to your job

Sharon Meit Abrahams

KF300 .A75 (2012)

 

Becoming a law professor: a candidate's guide

Denning, McCormick, & Lipshaw

KF272 .D46 (2010)

Best friends at the bar : what women need to know about a career in the law

Susan Smith Blakely

KF299 .W6 B59 (2009)

Careers in administrative law & regulatory practice

James T. O'Reilly [editor]

KF299.A32 C37 (2010)

Careers in international law, 4th edition

Salli Anne Swartz

KZ1238.U55 C37 (2012)

Careers in international law : a guide to career paths in international law

American Society of International Law (ASIL)

K115 .C38 (2009)

Federal resume guidebook : write a winning federal resume to get in, get promoted, and survive in a government job, 3rd edition.

Kathryn Kraemer Troutman

[electronic resource]

Fifty unique legal paths : how to find the right job

Ursula Furi-Perry

KF297 .F87 (2008)

Finding your voice in law school : mastering classroom cold calls, job interviews, and other verbal challenges

Molly Bishop Shadel

KF283 .S583 (2013)

The happy lawyer: making a good life in the law

Nancy Levit & Douglas O. Linder

KF300 .L485 (2010)

It's harder in heels : essays by women lawyers achieving work-life balance

Jacquelyn Hersh Slotkin & Samantha Slotkin Goodman

KF299.W66 I87 (2007)

 

The road to independence : 101 women's journeys to starting their own law firms

 

Karen M. Lockwood, editor.

KF299.W6 R62 (2011)

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