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Transforming Practices [Hardcover]

Steven Keeva (Author)
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From law school to the law firm, lawyers are taught and encouraged to win, with little regard to the emotional consequences. After years of being obsessed with winning, racking up billable hours, and fishing for clients, many lawyers lose sight of why they initially joined the ranks of the legal profession.

This landmark book explains how to reconnect with the spiritual side of law practice. It presents profiles of firms and lawyers who have transformed their practices from heartless and cold professional endeavors into kinder, gentler operations, with more emphasis on the clients'--and their own--emotional and spiritual needs.

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Spirituality and law practice may sound like an oxymoron, but a quiet quest to find deeper meaning in life and work as a lawyer and to cure the ailments of today's cutthroat law firm environment is well underfoot within the legal community. Transforming Practices: Finding Joy and Satisfaction in the Legal Life is the first book to explore this movement toward bringing one's soul to the practice of law and returning to lawyering from a healing perspective, rather than an adversarial one. Filled with inspiring profiles of lawyers who have successfully changed their work habits and attitudes and who have healed the split between inner and outer, "us" and "them," and individual and community, Transforming Practices makes it clear that the opportunity for transformation exists for every lawyer, in every kind of law practice. Through the use of narrative, interviews and anecdotes that draw upon the experiences of lawyers from a broad spectrum of practice areas, the book demonstrates that it is okay for a lawyer to be human, to care, to let the values and priorities that matter at home also matter at work. Interestingly, Steven Keeva is not a lawyer himself. Rather, as a senior editor for the ABA Journal, the most widely read legal publication in the world, he has written about lawyers and the legal profession for nearly a decade. (Danielle Egan-Miller, Business Editor, NTC/Contemporary).
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IF YOU WERE TO SURVEY THE LAWYERS you know to find out what led them to the law, you would probably come across reasons as diverse as the people you asked. Read the first page
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1.0 out of 5 stars Thoughts from Down the Road..., July 17 2004
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Carroll Straus (San Juan Capistrano CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Transforming Practices: Finding Joy and Satisfaction in the Legal Life (Paperback)
OK, it has been a while now since this book came out, and sinde i read it cover to cover. (in the interests of fulkl disclosure, i am in the book. But if you begin this book, you to will be compelled to keep reading! Honest!)

Anyone who is a lawyer-- or married to one-- needs to read this book. Steve was very brave to pitch this article to the ABA Jpournal. (It was then to be entitled Law and Spirituality, before it became a book and took on a life of its own!) He has a finely tuned ear for the symphony that is the legal profession. He is not a lawyer, but as a journalist for the leading legal journal in this country, he has been attuned to the profession for a long time. He hits all the righ notes-- he has perfect pitch. The healing has begun!
Thank you Steve!!!

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4.0 out of 5 stars A flawed but very valuable work., Dec 9 2001
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John P. (Kennett Square, PA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Transforming Practices (Hardcover)
Steven Keeva (who is not a lawyer but has spent many years observing and writing about them) here provides an assortment of advice, tips, and real-life examples to help you become a better lawyer and a better person. While I found much of the book to be old news, every 10 pages or so Keeva says something eye-opening, memorable, and truly instructive. The chapters on listening and service were, for me, the real pay-off, and I know I will be going back to them frequently. By contrast, his portrayal of litigators, trials, and especially corporate practice struck me as simplistic and a bit stereotyped. In addition, those who are unreceptive to the touchy-feely approach to problem-solving should be warned that this book is nothing if not touchy-feely. That said -- and notwithstanding my other qualifications -- this book is an *important* contribution to the literature of professionalism and lawyers' "mental hygiene" (as Prof. Stone of Harvard has called it). Since this book is also a quick read, every lawyer and law student who even suspects it may be helpful should give it a try and then keep it close at hand.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Staying in the practice, and enjoying it!, Oct 26 2000
This review is from: Transforming Practices (Hardcover)
Transforming Practices truly is a gift to lawyers, like me, who have been practicing for many years and want to continue practicing law in a satisfying and meaningful way. This book has been one of my best investments, and I keep it on my desk at work. Reading, or in my case rereading, Steven Keeva's inspirational words provides a much needed boost in spirit, and a new way of looking at the legal life, even on a difficult day! My colleagues who have read this book wholeheartedly agree!
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