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Raise the bar

Examines the dissatisfaction within the legal community. This title offers solutions for increasing lawyers' satisfaction with their careers. It explores the gap between aspiration and experience. It describes law practice and offers recommendations to restore some of the age-old satisfactions from a life as a lawyer in our society.
Print Book, English, 2007
American Bar Association, Chicago, 2007
xvii, 299 p. ; 23 cm
9781590318799, 159031879X
1061155010
Our gilded cage / by Scott Turow
End billable hour goals . . . now / by Lawrence J. Fox
A pig in a poke? the uncertain advantages of very large and highly leveraged law firms in America / by Michael H. Trotter
Organizational perspectives on raising the bar: five tentative solutions / by Robert L. Nelson
Law firms as great places to work / by Dr. Scott Cawood
A view from outside the law firms / by Bruce D. Collins
The death of partnership: can we end the trend? / by Lawrence J. Fox
A new path to excellence: balanced hours 101 / by Cynthia Thomas Calvert and Natalie M. Hiott-Levine
Solving the legal world's problems: a sole practitioner's perspective / by Roland Baggott
Mentoring: alive and well? / by Louise A. LaMothe
There's no turning back: five practical ways to motivate the new breed of associates / by Coke Morgan Stewart
Developing young lawyers / by Dean Zipser
Pro bono: more than a professional responsibility / by Joanne Martin and Stephen Daniels
Let's start a ripple: building diversity in the legal profession / by Kay H. Hodge
Should we mandate doing well by doing good? / by Lawrance J. Fox
The statesman lawyer: an oxymoron? / by Robert N. Sayler
Service to the bar / by Robert Grey, Jr
The city upon the hill / by Michael E. Tigar
Includes index