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The happy lawyer : making a good life in the law / Nancy Levit & Douglas O. Linder.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Levit, Nancy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Practice of law--United States--Psychological aspects.
- Practice of law.
- Lawyers--Job satisfaction--United States.
- Lawyers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (302 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Despite the handsome incomes they often command, lawyers are far from the happiest of professionals. Seven in ten attorneys in one poll said they would choose other careers if they had to do it over again and, in another poll, fewer than half said they would encourage young people to become lawyers. Indeed, no poll has ever put the law in the top tier of satisfying professions. The economic uncertainty of recent years has only made law students and lawyers think harder than ever before about what they can hope to get out of careers in law. This book not only sheds light on why so many lawyers
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; CHAPTER 1 Are Lawyers Unhappy?; CHAPTER 2 Happiness: A Primer; CHAPTER 3 What Makes Lawyers Happy and Unhappy; CHAPTER 4 The Happiness Toolbox; CHAPTER 5 Preparing for a Satisfying Career: The Law School Years; CHAPTER 6 What Law Firms Can Do to Make Lawyers Happier; CHAPTER 7 Lawyers' Stories; CHAPTER 8 Seeking Happier Ground; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-975867-0
- 1-282-56519-2
- 9786612565199
- 0-19-975083-1
- OCLC:
- 645939975
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