Transforming Practices: Finding Joy and Satisfaction in the Legal Life

Keeva, Steven

ISBN 10: 1604427299 / ISBN 13: 9781604427295

Published by American Bar Association, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Transforming Practices: Finding Joy and Satisfaction in the Legal Life
• Publisher: American Bar Association
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1604427299
• ISBN 13: 9781604427295
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Acceptable

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Synopsis

This book examines how lawyers can find deeper meaning in their work, practice more compassionately, and discover enjoyment in what they do, all by developing a greater awareness for their inner lives. Filled with inspiring profiles of lawyers who have successfully changed their work habits and who have healed themselves as individuals and within their communities, this book makes it clear that the opportunity for change exists for every lawyer, in every kind of practice.

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).