The Lawyer's Guide to Balancing Life and Work: Taking the Stress Out of SuccessLaw Practice Management Section, American Bar Association, 1999 - 235 pages Designed to help lawyers achieve personal and professional satisfaction in their careers, this guide offers seasoned wisdom for navigating a stress-free path through a career in law. Through practical and explorative exercises, lawyers learn how to identify habitual patterns, clearly evaluate past and current jobs, and discover self-empowerment, and how to apply this information to making healthy decisions. The exercises take personal facts from all aspects of a lawyer's complex life and arrange the information into simple, useful advice for making productive career choices. The book is peppered with informative and engaging anecdotes, and firsthand burnout experiences-offering remedies and direction for lawyers whose careers and lives are out of balance. |
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... offer . And yet , if we could create such a dialogue as part of the interview process , both you and the law organization would benefit . As I don't see any such institutional change likely to materialize in the near future , the obser ...
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... offer a few and ask whether you recognize any of them in yourself . Lawyers Exhibit a Herd Mentality Most graduates follow their classmates into private practice . Those who excel are rewarded . And when the rewards offer a prize that ...
... offer a few and ask whether you recognize any of them in yourself . Lawyers Exhibit a Herd Mentality Most graduates follow their classmates into private practice . Those who excel are rewarded . And when the rewards offer a prize that ...
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... offer short - term relief and some balance against the inexorable pressures of work . If we gain profi- ciency in any one of these areas , we break the cycle of having our bod- ies work in a frame of chronic - or unremitting - stress ...
... offer short - term relief and some balance against the inexorable pressures of work . If we gain profi- ciency in any one of these areas , we break the cycle of having our bod- ies work in a frame of chronic - or unremitting - stress ...
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