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What is it like to be an intellectual property lawyer? In this Career Q&A video interview, Adam Garson talks about his career path, what he does on the job, and the keys to success in the field of intellectual property law. He also offers candid advice on breaking into the profession as well as insight into the industry's biggest challenges and how the field may change in the next ten years.
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What is it like to be an elder law attorney? In this Career Q&A video interview, Rory Clark talks about his career path, what he does on the job, and the keys to success in the field of elder law. He also offers candid advice on breaking into the profession as well as insight into the industry's biggest challenges and how the field may change in the next ten years.
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Eric Weissmann is a founding and senior partner for the Weissmann Wolff Bergman Coleman Grodin & Evall LLP's entertainment department; he represents actors, directors, producers and financiers. Weissmann has extensive international entertainment experience and has represented the New South Wales (Australia) government film industry, the studio owned by the then-government of Yugoslavia, and a branch of Gozkino- the Ministry of Film of the USSR.
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What is it like to be a corporate attorney? In this Career Q&A video interview, Bart Wall talks about his career path, what he does on the job, and the keys to success in the field. He also offers candid advice on breaking into the profession as well as insight into the industry's biggest challenges and how the field may change in the next ten years.
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What is it like to be a family law attorney? In this Career Q&A video interview, Kelly Chang Rickert talks about her career path, what she does on the job, and the keys to success in the field. She also offers candid advice on breaking into the profession as well as insight into the industry's biggest challenges and how the field may change in the next ten years.
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What is it like to be a Criminal Lawyer? In this Career Q&A video interview, Hugo Martinez talks about his career path, what he does on the job, and the keys to success in the criminal law field. He also offers candid advice on breaking into the profession as well as insight into the industry's biggest challenges and how the field may change in the next ten years.
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The occupation of lawyer used to command immediate respect and trust in our society. Today, however, the profession has come under suspicion and is the butt of many jokes. Is the lure of financial reward and legal competition distorting the practice of law? Has greed overtaken the quest for fairness? How can the legal profession regulate its behavior? This program addresses these and other questions about the role and integrity of lawyers in our society...
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Police beatings, an absence of common law, and a corrupt judiciary are the basis of a Zimbabwe human rights lawyer's work. Beatrice Mtetwa has been waging a David and Goliath battle to defend those jailed by the Mugabe government. This revealing documentary is a snapshot of Beatrice's life on the front line of a 20 year struggle as Zimbabwe's civil society crumbled beneath the Mugabe dictatorship.
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Civil rights attorney Thurgood Marshall's triumph in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision to desegregate America's public schools completed the final leg of an heroic journey to end legal segregation. For 20 years, during wartime and the Depression, Marshall had traveled hundreds of thousands of miles through the Jim Crow South of the United States, fighting segregation case by case, establishing precedent after precedent, all...