Lawyers And Balanced Lives

The Lawyer's Guide to Balancing Life and Work, Second Edition is about how the law fits inside you, not how you fit inside the law. Making space for creativity and passion within your current workplace and at home can yield enormous emotional rewards. In the end, this book will support you whether you stay in the law, shift your law practice, or move on to other work. This book is the tool you need to make healthy decisions and welcome the passion back into your life!

Essays by and about women lawyers describe their satisfactions and struggles. Even though the stories revolve around women trained to be lawyers, the stories are relevant to life outside the legal profession and will be lessons for all women professionals. (Legal Reference/Law)

Work-life balance is not just a woman's issue. Both men and women struggle to balance work and personal lives. This book of essays focuses on work-life balance from the male perspective. We asked a group of husbands of women lawyers - all ages, all generations, various professions - to share their observations, insights, and thoughts about the pressures they've faced achieving work-life balance. Men wrote essays about prioritizing time as a spouse and parent, working arrangements, and being an effective team. They described efforts made to support the advancement of women in the law and, in particular, their spouse's career; professional and personal achievements and hardships; impossible challenges; changes in the legal profession for women observed and experienced; and workable solutions to balance competing demands. This collection of essays illustrates the pressures faced by men and their spouses; describes work-life balance issues and the satisfactions and difficulties of a dual career marriage; gives advice on how to do it; and explains the frustrations, disappointments, demands, and compromises - from the husband's perspective. About the editors: Jacquelyn Slotkin: B.A. University of Pittsburgh; M.A., West Virginia University; Ph.D., University of Arizona; J.D., University of San Diego. Professor Slotkin, former director of the Legal Skills program and legal skills professor, is currently director of the LL.M./M.C.L. program for foreign lawyers at California Western School of Law in San Diego, California. She and her daughter, Samantha Goodman, produced their first book, IT'S HARDER IN HEELS: ESSAYS BY WOMEN LAWYERS ACHIEVING WORK-LIFE BALANCE, in 2007. Samantha Slotkin Goodman: B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; J.D., Loyola Law School. Samantha Goodman concentrates her practice on commercial real estate leasing representing both landlords and tenants. Samantha was Senior Associate at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Senior Associate at DLA Piper US LLP, and Counsel with Bryan Cave LLP. She frequently lectures on landlord and tenant law, has been named a Southern California Rising Star every year since 2004 in a poll among Southern California Super Lawyers conducted by Law and Politics and Los Angeles magazines, and was named one of the "Southland's Rising Young Stars Under 40" in 2005 by Real Estate Southern California.

"Provides an accessible, expertly written guide on overcoming the challenges of balancing work and life priorities for the busy New Zealand lawyer"--Publisher information.

Coaching for Attorneys is more than just a book. It is a mentor - addressing common problems and concerns that lawyers experience throughout their careers - and provides specific tools along with specific step-by-step instructions on how to use these tools to help you make life as a lawyer easier. Coaching for Attorneys teaches one how to feel good about what you are doing thus resulting in better work, better health, and better family life. Simply put: a fulfilled attorney is a better attorney.Throughout this new-age book, real life examples are included that demonstrate how effective coaching can have positive changes. The authors help you realize practicing law in a new and innovative way that will respect who you are as a person; that will bring excellence to your practice, balance to your life; and that will ultimately have you feeling better and working more productively!