09/08/2025
“A few days after I was crying in Times Square next to a guy dressed up as Elmo… I had a realization: this experience has been traumatic… but it’s also kind of funny.” 🙃
📙 “The Brand-New Lawyer’s Guide” from John Reilly (Brooklyn Law School) is the essential roadmap for anyone navigating the challenging first years of their legal career. It equips you with the tools and insights needed to thrive in the legal profession, create a career you truly love, and find excitement and meaning in your work. Click below to read the inspiring story of how it came to be! 🔽
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/meet-john-reilly-carolina-academic-press-f9lze
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From Heidi Brown, Associate Dean for Upper Level Writing and Professor of Legal Writing at New York Law School:
“If you're feeling overwhelmed, anxious, confused, or uncertain about how to make the leap from law student to lawyer, John Reilly’s ‘The Brand-New Lawyer's Guide to Passing the Bar, Learning the Trade, and Building a Sustainable Career’ is the book for you. This helpful guide is chock full of practical advice about forging our own authentic identities as lawyers, aligning our careers with our personal values, and tending to our mental, physical, and emotional well-being along the way. This book is the graduation gift every law student needs.”
From Marsha Garrison, 1901 Distinguished Research Professor at Brooklyn Law School:
“‘The Brand-New Lawyer's Guide’ is the perfect gift for recent law graduates. Reilly grabs the reader's attention on page one, and he keeps it throughout. By recounting his own successes—and where he can now see that he went wrong—Reilly quickly establishes his credentials as a friend who has been there and survived to tell the tale. The friendly and nuanced advice he offers is up-to-date and spot-on. Young lawyers who read the ‘Guide’ and follow its wise counsel will invariably benefit.”
https://cap-press.com/books/isbn/9781531033415/The-Brand-New-Lawyers-Guide-to-Passing-the-Bar-Learning-the-Trade-and-Building-a-Sustainable-Career
