The Complete Guide to Contract Lawyering: What Every Lawyer and Law Firm Needs to Know About Temporary Legal Services [Paperback]

Deborah Arron (Author), Deborah Guyol (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0940675455 | ISBN-13: 978-0940675452 | Publication Date: February 1999 | Edition: 2

Describes how practicing lawyer, law firm administrators, or recent law school graduates can take advantage of the growing opportunities in temporary legal work while navigating the drawbacks. Discusses rate-setting, state and local ethical opinions, malpractice liability and coverage, and contains sample agreements and a national roster of lawyer placement agencies.

Editorial Reviews

From Scientific American

Arron and Guyol detail the benefits and risks in contract relationships. Written in a tightly organized style, the book is organized by topic and interest area. You can focus on contracting as a process, as a contractor, or as a firm. Arron and Guyol lead you step-by-step through several "how-to" guides that will help determine your suitability for and compatibility with contract arrangements. If you're recent graduate, or a managing partner - or somewhere in-between - The Guide will help determine if contracting is right for you.

Review

This is a comprehensive resource aimed at both the contract attorney, and those considering using temporary lawyers. We know of no other resource which addresses this phenomenon in this level of detail. -- ABA's Law Practice Management Magazine

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Product Details

• Paperback: 317 pages
• Publisher: Niche Press; 2 edition (February 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0940675455
• ISBN-13: 978-0940675452
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,576,338 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's a road map through the contract lawyering maze, April 22, 2000

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This review is from: The Complete Guide to Contract Lawyering: What Every Lawyer and Law Firm Needs to Know About Temporary Legal Services (Paperback)

This is an excellent resource for a rapidly developing area of legal practice. It describes the history and context of contract lawyering, discusses ethical, tax and malpractice concerns, and includes charts, graphs, worksheets and five useful appendices. It even offers summaries of relevant state, local and national ethics opinions. Anyone contemplating becoming or hiring a contract lawyer should read this book.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A practical and realistic book; lots of valuable information, October 22, 1999

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This review is from: The Complete Guide to Contract Lawyering: What Every Lawyer and Law Firm Needs to Know About Temporary Legal Services (Paperback)

What I liked about the book is that it dealt effectively with the questions about lawyer temping that I wouldn't have thought to ask and proceeded to answer them all. I also liked the step-by-step guide for marketing yourself as a contract lawyer. Best of all, tho, it's got sample forms and contracts and covers issues like malpractice insurance, independent contractor status and all the ethical issues involved with being a contract lawyer.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best book to start investigating contract lawyering, October 22, 1999

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This review is from: The Complete Guide to Contract Lawyering: What Every Lawyer and Law Firm Needs to Know About Temporary Legal Services (Paperback)

There are significant risks and benefits with contract lawyering arrangements. For those practitioners who are, or who may become involved in such arrangements, this book is an extremely useful and cost-effective tool in developing an awareness of several critical issues. The book is readable, without jargon, and does not fail to address a variety of problem areas, namely conflicts of interest, client consent, billing and professional malpractice liability coverage.