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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... partnership in a firm- was always uncertain . All the hours spent in satisfying the firm's expecta- tions brought forth only limited responses from senior partners . Eventually we became skilled at reading the firm's body language to ...
... partnership in a firm- was always uncertain . All the hours spent in satisfying the firm's expecta- tions brought forth only limited responses from senior partners . Eventually we became skilled at reading the firm's body language to ...
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... partners are measured against those of associates . Each partner's hours are also measured against those of other partners within the firm , and the hours of partners in one practice group are measured against the hours of partners in ...
... partners are measured against those of associates . Each partner's hours are also measured against those of other partners within the firm , and the hours of partners in one practice group are measured against the hours of partners in ...
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... partners . In turn , senior partners understand their vulnerability at the top of the economic lad- der . They work to keep the benefits that seniority provides . Partners also respond to the expectation of clients . As most firms ...
... partners . In turn , senior partners understand their vulnerability at the top of the economic lad- der . They work to keep the benefits that seniority provides . Partners also respond to the expectation of clients . As most firms ...
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Prologue | 5 |
Taking StockThe Path to the | 11 |
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