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Future Performance: Your Guide to a Successful Career in Law

Author: Mona Mehta Stone
Published Month: November 2009
Media: Paperback
Length: 200 pages
ISBN: 9780314918192
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Readers of Future Performance: Your Guide to a Successful Career in Law will learn how to excel as attorneys and get the most out of each stage of their careers. Written by an experienced partner at a major international law firm, this guide instructs how to stand out and thrive in today’s competitive legal market, and offers real-life examples of what is expected of young attorneys in order to advance to partnership and become exceptional practitioners. This practice guide shares invaluable insights about each phase of a lawyer’s career, including life at law firms, government jobs, and in-house positions. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach to success, this handbook helps readers evaluate career goals, establish meaningful relationships with mentors, and maximize opportunities. This book teaches how to:

• make the most out of law school
• successfully build a solid cover letter/résumé and shine at interviews
• obtain top work assignments
• develop essential self-promotion skills
• navigate organizational politics and align with leaders
• become indispensable attorneys
• increase networking and business development efforts
• enhance job satisfaction

About the Author

Mona Mehta Stone is a partner in the Chicago office of Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell, LLP and serves on the firm’s Hiring and Diversity Committees. She earned her J.D. from Tulane University School of Law in 1997.