This book provides candidate attorneys with the practical information that they need when starting articles. The information in this guide bridges the gap between the university environment, where the emphasis is on theoretical knowledge, and the candidate attorney’s new working environment, where the emphasis is on the practical, hands-on application of this knowledge and learning fast! It covers the candidate attorney’s relationship with his or her principal, with counsel and clients, registering and ceding articles, issuing, serving and filing, the courts, how to prepare for applications and actions, being admitted as an attorney, ethics and etiquette.

Features and Benefits

• A practical handbook intended for the new candidate attorney covering everything from working with principals, counsel and clients, to etiquette, actions and applications
• Plain language approach
  
  

• Chapter 2: Getting through the doors: your first days in a law firm
• Chapter 3: What will you be doing, Grasshopper?
• Chapter 4: You and your principal 
• Chapter 5: Registering and ceding articles
• Chapter 6: You and your clients
• Chapter 7: You and counsel
• Chapter 8: Issuing, serving and filing
• Chapter 9: Applications and actions, practically speaking 
• Chapter 10: Indexing and paginating demystified
• Chapter 11: The courts: what to do, where to go, and to whom you should speak 
• Chapter 12: After judgment
• Chapter 13: Ethics, etiquette and administrative issues
• Chapter 14: Being admitted as an attorney 
• Chapter 15: Checklists 
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• Third and final year LLB students
• Candidate attorneys
• Schools of Legal Practice
• Universities
• Law societies
• Law firms
• Law libraries