Running from the Law: Why Good Lawyers Are Getting Out of the Legal Profession - Softcover

Arron, Deborah L.

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9780898154139: Running from the Law: Why Good Lawyers Are Getting Out of the Legal Profession

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ISBN 10: 0898154138 ISBN 13: 9780898154139

Publisher: Ten Speed Press, 1991

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Describes ways in which lawyers are unhappy with the contemporary practice of law, and suggests how to make improvements or to undertake a career change

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From the Author:

I wrote this book in the late '80s as a way of exploring my own dissatisfaction with, and escape from, the legal profession. The book, mostly through profiles of successful former practicing lawyers, expresses all the reasons lawyers choose to leave the law, and how they overcame the barriers to change. As such, the book deals more with the "why's" of a lawyer's career change than with the "how's". Over the years, many lawyers have written to me, telling me how good it felt to read the profiles and realize how many others shared their feelings. We all know we're not crazy for feeling the way we do about our work. But it helps to have confirmed that others -- many others -- feel the way we do.

From Library Journal:

Basing this book primarily on interviews and on her own personal experiences, former attorney Arron looks at why experienced and successful lawyers are dissatisfied with their profession and are leaving it in increasing numbers. She describes the economic and social barriers to leaving, and she shows how unhappy attorneys can overcome these obstacles and identify alternate careers or, failing that, better cope within the legal system. Although this is a problem that is grudgingly being recognized by the profession, readers may wonder whether the disaffection represents a more widespread phenomenon to which Arron only alludes to early on but never examines fully. Still, this book will comfort attorneys who may believe they are unusual in their unhappiness. However, the real readership should be present or prospective law students who yet have control over their professional destinies. Arron's book is highly recommended for all career planning and law libraries.
- Merlin Whiteman, Indiana Univ. Sch. of Law, Indianapolis
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