Lawyering and Positive Professional Identities

Lawyering and Positive Professional Identities is designed to help law students successfully navigate the demands of law studies and legal practice through the development of positive professional legal identities. It focuses on the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for law students to be motivated and engaged learners, and psychologically healthy individuals.

Positive lawyering knowledge and practice are central themes, with a particular emphasis on lawyers' roles as upholders of the rule of law, as dispute resolvers and as ethical professionals. The diverse range of topics includes lawyering, dispute resolution, ethics, resilience and self-management, addressing the threshold learning outcomes for the Australian law curriculum. Throughout, the authors provide practical, experience-based advice on the development of core skills for legal education and practice.

Extracted from the well-renowned LexisNexis looseleaf Practice and Procedure High Court and Federal Court of Australia, this 3rd edition of Annotated Federal Court Legislation and Rules contains annotations to essential federal court legislation, rules and forms in one concise portable volume. Incorporating all legislative amendments up to and including 2 May 2019 this text also includes useful practice documents including: Practice Notes; the National Guide to Counsel Fees; and the National Guide to Discretionary Items in Bills of Costs.

Features

• Introduces students to positive ways of lawyering
• Develops essential skills including critical thinking, communications skills and reflective practice
• Provides a context for professional practice and ethical behaviour
• Fosters students' emergent sense of a positive professional legal identity
• Equips students with the capacity to self-manage their study and professional practice on graduation

Related Titles

• Creyke at al, Laying Down the Law, 10th ed, 2018
• Ebejer, LexisNexis Questions & Answers: Legal Practice and Ethics, 3rd ed, 2019
• Esparraga, Ethical Legal Practice and Professional Conduct, 2019