Transforming Practices: Finding Joy and Satisfaction in the Legal Life - Hardcover

Keeva, Steven

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1604427299 ISBN 13: 9781604427295

Publisher: Amer Bar Assn, 2011

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.

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From the Back Cover

Steven Keeva's Transforming Practices Is Changing Lives

"Every lawyer and law student in America [should] read this book, study it, savor it, and make it a constant companion."
Texas Lawyer

"If you don't like what you've become, if your life seems empty, sterile or diminished . . . and if you've ever desired a more fulfilling life in the law, then read this book!"
The Pennsylvania Lawyer

"Goes back to the fundamentals of our humanity to describe a better way to be a lawyer. It actually does more than that. It describes how to be a better human being. Everything else flows from that."
Corporate Legal Times

"An amazing little book that has the potential to significantly affect the lives of lawyers and their families. . . . Rather than write another book aimed at improving what we do, Keeva has written a book that can help improve who we are and what we are."
Trial magazine

". . . Provides a needed resource for lawyers seeking to wrest their lives from the often implacable maw of corporate life."
New York Law Journal

"[Transforming Practices] should help all lawyers recover the integration of life and work that alone makes a day's work worth it."
Boston Bar Journal

Transforming Practices presents a revolutionary vision to America's nearly one million lawyers, many of whom have become disillusioned with their careers. Author Steven Keeva, assistant managing editor of the influential ABA Journal, shows how by cultivating a vibrant inner life, any lawyer can find profound satisfaction, pleasure, and joy in his or her work.

Through the use of narrative, interviews, and anecdotes from lawyers who have found ways to bring renewed meaning, fulfillment, and a deep sense of pleasure to their law practices, Keeva demonstrates that it is absolutely OK for a lawyer to be human, to care, to let the values and priorities that matter at home also matter on the job. Transforming Practices makes it clear that the opportunity for transformation exists for every lawyer, in every kind of law practice.

New to this edition is a foreword by Jan Schlichtmann, the lawyer whose extraordinary story was told in Jonathan Harr's bestseller, A Civil Action.

About the Author

Steven Keeva is assistant managing editor of the ABA Journal/The Lawyer's Magazine, the official publication of the American Bar Association and the most widely read legal publication in the world. His articles have been used as instructional materials by bar associations and law schools nationwide. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.

Edition details

• Publisher: Amer Bar Assn
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1604427299
• ISBN 13: 9781604427295
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 211