Transforming Practices: Finding Joy and Satisfaction in the Legal Life
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
An important book for practicing and would-be lawyers and a healthy antidote for law-bashing laypersons." Booklist Transforming Practices explains how you can reconnect with the spiritual side of law practice and place more emphasis on your clients' and your own emotional and spiritual needs. Now includes a new foreword by Jan Schlichtmann, who attained national prominence with the release of Jonathan Harr's A Civil Action , which later became a movie starring John Travolta.
From the Publisher
Spirituality and law practice may sound like an oxymoron, but a quiet quest to find deeper meaning in life and work as a lawyer and to cure the ailments of today's cutthroat law firm environment is well underfoot within the legal community. Transforming Practices: Finding Joy and Satisfaction in the Legal Life is the first book to explore this movement toward bringing one's soul to the practice of law and returning to lawyering from a healing perspective, rather than an adversarial one. Filled with inspiring profiles of lawyers who have successfully changed their work habits and attitudes and who have healed the split between inner and outer, "us" and "them," and individual and community, Transforming Practices makes it clear that the opportunity for transformation exists for every lawyer, in every kind of law practice. Through the use of narrative, interviews and anecdotes that draw upon the experiences of lawyers from a broad spectrum of practice areas, the book demonstrates that it is okay for a lawyer to be human, to care, to let the values and priorities that matter at home also matter at work. Interestingly, Steven Keeva is not a lawyer himself. Rather, as a senior editor for the ABA Journal, the most widely read legal publication in the world, he has written about lawyers and the legal profession for nearly a decade. (Danielle Egan-Miller, Business Editor, NTC/Contemporary).
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Transforming Practices: Finding Joy and Satisfaction in the Legal Life
Transforming Practices: Finding Joy and Satisfaction in the Legal Life,Steven Keeva,McGraw-Hill,0809225085,Business & Economics,Business/Economics,Careers - General,Lawyers,Legal Profession,Legal Reference / Law Profession,Legal ethics,Moral and ethical aspects,Practice of law,Law / General
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