The Creative Lawyer, Second Edition - Softcover

Melcher, Michael F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1614389802 ISBN 13: 9781614389804

Publisher: American Bar Association, 2015

Synopsis

Now completely revised and updated, this book is a self-help and career-management book for lawyers of all levels of experience. The book is a step-by-step method for imagining and realizing your path to personal and professional satisfaction. The book will:

• Give you a template for envisioning and managing your own professional development, whatever path you choose
• Help you to manage your career so that you can stay happy. 
• If you are not sure what you think about your career, it will give you a framework for sorting things out and moving forward amidst ambiguity.

Brilliantly written, consistently practical, and filled with scores of illuminating exercises, including many new ones, The Creative Lawyer is the book that the profession has been waiting for. "Professional satisfaction," the author writes, "is a question of creating what you want, not just waiting for it to appear."

About this title

About the Author

Michael F. Melcher is a nationally known executive coach. Educated at Harvard and Stanford, and a former associate at one of the country's leading law firms, Melcher has worked in law, business, and government. He resides in New York City and western Massachusetts. The Creative Lawyer is his second book.

From the Inside Flap

The first edition of The Creative Lawyer provided a detailedroad map for every lawyer--in every practice setting and at every level ofexperience--to find professional satisfaction.

Now lawyer, writer, and experienced executive coach MichaelMelcher has expanded his brilliant, practical book to include new exercises andillustrations designed to help the reader honestly confront his or her values,relationships, and goals and then create an executable plan. Included in thisrevised edition are new chapters on brand; transition; relationships; attentionmanagement; and more stories of resilience, all delivered in Melcher's uniquelywinning voice.

The Creative Lawyer is more than a how-to book forimproving your career and life. It's a call to action to define a new vision ofwho you are, what you want, and how you can make it happen.

Join the thousands of lawyers who have benefitted fromMichael Melcher's expertise over the past decade--and put yourself on the pathtoward authentic professional satisfaction.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Bar Association
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1614389802
• ISBN 13: 9781614389804
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 296