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Buffalo Law Review Volume 1 Number 2 Article 26 12-1-1951 Career Planning in the Law. By Kenneth Redden. Robert H. Daley University at Buffalo School of Law Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/buffalolawreview  Part of the Legal Profession Commons Recommended Citation Robert H. Daley, Career Planning in the Law. By Kenneth Redden., 1 Buff. L. Rev. 218 (1951). Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/buffalolawreview/vol1/iss2/26 This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Journals at Digital Commons @ University at Buffalo School of Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Buffalo Law Review by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ University at Buffalo School of Law. For more information, please contact lawscholar@buffalo.edu. BUFFALO LAW REVIEWof his career with the conflict of laws aspect of American jurisprudence. And itequally well illustrates the author's subsidiary purpose. As the author says, thisbook was prepared as a Primer. I think he did a good job. Such improvementsas may be necessary can be made in later additions.George Neff Stevens*CAREER PLANNING IN THE LAW. By Kenneth Redden. Indianapolis: TheBobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.. 1951. Pp. 194. $3.00.The author observes in the chapter introducing this offering that "... thepurpose of this book is to serve as an intensely practical vocational guidancemanual for those who have been devoting themselves to getting a legal education."Whether the offering is "intensely practical" is debatable; however, the author haspresented a survey of the areas of employment into which American lawyersgravitate by inclination, circumstance, or both. Each area of employment isdescribed sufficiently to raise a fair appreciation of the problems, benefits, anddisadvantages experienced by the lawyers so employed. It should be apparent tothe reader that interest in one or more of thes . areas should be followed by anindividual effort to develop all aspects of the specific area before actively seekinga position there. This book does not purport to set forth a complete analysis of theareas discussed. It should not be so treated by the reader.The chapter on private practice dearly indicates the wide choice theoreticallyavailable to the graduate-independent practice, a small firm, a large firm, a staffposition in a corporation. Included in the chapter is a suggestion of the long-developing trend toward increased specialization. Labor Relations and CriminalLaw are chosen as examples. Similar considerations can and should be exploredin any of the possible areas of specialization. The future specialist is, however,cautioned to lay a solid foundation by a period of general practice followinggraduation.Government service is accorded more detailed treatment than any other areadescribed. Eight distinct federal agencies are advanced as representative anddiscussed at length. A detailed twelve page diagram is included, which, on anagency-by-agency basis, sets forth specific job requirements and opportunities.The so-called "allied fields," including law teaching, law librarians, law editing,ODean, University of Buffalo Law School; Member of The New York Bar.BOOK REVIEWSestate planning, brokerage business, and court reporting, are discussed briefly. Thebook closes with some suggestions on job hunting methods.I do not believe that the book can be considered as a vocational guidancemanual. The treatment of individual subjects does not exhibit the intensiveapproach of the manual technique. The major deficiency, accepting the book asa survey rather than as a manual, is the lack of adequate bibliography to supple-mentary materials.Robert H. Daley**Lecturer in Law, University of Buffalo; Member of the New York Bar.

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