Lawyers at Work reveals what it means and what it takes to be a satisfied, sane, and successful lawyer in today’s tough legal marketplace. Through incisive in-depth interviews, a top legal headhunter gives the 3rd degree to 15 successful lawyers who run the gamut of the legal profession.Practice areas represented in these profiles range from employment discrimination to corporate defense, from federal white collar prosecution to the legal structuring of complex derivative instruments, from antitrust in DC to trusts & estates in Florida, from divorce in New York to international mergers in Paris, from intellectual property in Silicon Valley to creeping expropriation in India, and from entertainment law in Hollywood to welfare rights in the Bronx. Law firm sizes range from one of the biggest in the world with over two thousand lawyers to a one-lawyer general practice.

工作中的律师揭示了在当今艰难的法律市场中，成为一名满意、理智和成功的律师意味着什么，需要什么。通过精辟深入的访谈，一家顶级法律猎头公司为15名成功的律师授予了第三学位，这些律师涵盖了法律行业的方方面面。这些简介中涉及的实践领域包括就业歧视到公司辩护，从联邦白领起诉到复杂衍生工具的法律架构，从华盛顿特区的反垄断到佛罗里达州的信托和房地产，从纽约的离婚到巴黎的国际合并，从硅谷的知识产权到印度逐渐蔓延的征用，从好莱坞的娱乐法到布朗克斯区的福利权。律师事务所的规模从拥有2000多名律师的世界上最大的律师事务所之一到只有一名律师的普通执业律师事务所不等。