The creative lawyer : a practical guide to authentic professional satisfaction

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Where to find it

Law Library — 2nd Floor Collection (2nd floor)

Call Number
KF300.Z9 M45 2014
Status
Available

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Summary

Now completely revised and updated, this book is a self-help and career-management book for lawyers of all levels of experience. The book is a step-by-step method for imagining and realizing your path to personal and professional satisfaction. The book will: give you a template for envisioning and managing your own professional development, whatever path you choose help you to manage your career so that you can stay happy. If you are not sure what you think about your career give you a framework for sorting things out and moving forward amidst ambiguity, and more Brilliantly written, consistently practical, and filled with scores of illuminating exercises, including many new ones, The Creative Lawyer is the book that the profession has been waiting for. "Professional satisfaction," the author writes, "is a question of creating what you want, not just waiting for it to appear."

Contents

What happens now? -- 20 minutes a day -- Who you are now : identifying your values -- Living your values in work and life -- Be clear about your trade-offs -- Exercising vision -- Self-management and type -- The habit of experimentation -- How relationships matter -- Networking and social capital -- What you talk about : when you talk about yourself -- Managing time and attention -- Learning inside and outside the job -- Knowing and owning your brand -- The rhythms of transition -- Money and other taboos -- The creative lawyer unbound.

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