Raise the Bar: Real World Solutions for a Troubled ProfessionThis book examines the dissatisfaction within the legal community and offers practical, real world solutions for increasing lawyers' satisfaction with their careers. Contributors, including Scott Turow and Michael Tigar, explore the gap between aspiration and experience and share the experiences that have led them to this urgent call to reinvent the practice (and business) of law. Written with insight and candor, Raise the Bar shines much-needed light on the modern law practice and offers recommendations to restore some of the age-old satisfactions from a life as a lawyer in our society. |
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Contents
Our Gilded Cage By Scott Turow | 3 |
End Billable Hour Goals Now By Lawrence J Fox | 15 |
The Law Firm | 31 |
A Pig in a Poke? The Uncertain Advantages of Very Large and Highly Leveraged Law Firms in America By Michael H Trotter | 33 |
Organizational Perspectives on Raising the Bar Five Tentative Solutions By Robert L Nelson | 53 |
Law Firms as Great Places to Work By Dr Scott Cawood | 69 |
Being Honest | 85 |
A View from Outside the Law Firms By Bruce D Collins | 87 |
Mentoring Alive and Well? By Louise A LaMothe | 167 |
Theres No Turning Back Five Practical Ways to Motivate the New Breed of Associates By Coke Morgan Stewart | 183 |
Developing Young Lawyers By Dean Zipser | 199 |
Serving the Wider World | 215 |
Pro Bono More Than a Professional Responsibility | 217 |
Lets Start a Ripple Building Diversity in the Legal Profession By Kay H Hodge | 237 |
Should We Mandate Doing Well by Doing Good? By Lawrence J Fox | 251 |
The Statesman Lawyer An Oxymoron? By Robert N Sayler | 257 |
The Death of Partnership Can We End the Trend? By Lawrence J Fox | 103 |
The Work | 111 |
A New Path to Excellence Balanced Hours 101 By Cynthia Thomas Calvert and Natalie M HiottLevine | 113 |
Solving the Legal Worlds Problems A Sole Practitioners Perspective By Roland Baggott | 137 |
Associates and Mentoring | 165 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Raise the Bar: Real World Solutions for a Troubled Profession |
| Author | Lawrence J. Fox |
| Editor | Lawrence J. Fox |
| Publisher | American Bar Association, 2007 |
| ISBN | 159031879X, 9781590318799 |
| Length | 299 pages |
| Subjects | › Law / Ethics & Professional Responsibility Law / General Practice Law / Legal Profession |
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