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The Creative Lawyer: A Practical Guide to Authentic Professional Satisfaction (eBook) |
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The Creative Lawyer is a self-help and career-management book for lawyers of all levels of experience. Written by Michael Melcher, one of America's leading career coaches who is himself an attorney, the book is a step-by-step method for imagining and realizing your path to personal and professional satisfaction.
Brilliantly written, consistently practical, and filled with scores of illuminating exercises, 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. You become the creative lawyer when you take stewardship of your own life and career. This means analyzing your desires, interests, temperament and ambitions. It means designing goals related to things you're sure about and designing experiments about things you're not. It means mastering the present while anticipating the future." This book shows you how, precisely, to do these things.
If you're a young lawyer, The Creative Lawyer will give you a template for envisioning and managing your own professional development, whatever path you choose.
Melcher Keynote at Iowa Bar (Clip)
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If you're an experienced lawyer, The Creative Lawyer book will help you to reassess and renew your career. It will aid you in understanding how your own values and passions might have changed over the years, and what to do if they have.
If you are unhappy or stuck in your career, the book will help you figure out ways to ameliorate your problems and gradually get to a place where your work is in synch with who you really are.
If you are happy in your career, The Creative Lawyer will help you to manage your career so that you can stay happy.
If you are not sure what you think about your career, The Creative Lawyer will give you a framework for sorting things out and moving forward amidst ambiguity.
Michael Melcher is a nationally known career coach. Educated at Harvard and Stanford, and a former associate at one of the country's leading law firms, Melcher has worked in law, business, and government, and has spoken before thousands of people on career-related issues. He has a fulltime coaching business in New York, has coached hundreds of individuals across the country.
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"Thousands of lawyers and law students will be thanking their lucky stars that someone took the time to write such a helpful and insightful book. Creative Lawyer empowers all lawyers to find true career satisfaction by providing them with the tools to take an unflinching look at themselves and take control of their own future. A book full of applicable wisdom and practical exercises designed to conquer the problem keeping so many lawyers unhappily toiling in unfulfilling careers: lack of self-knowledge."
Henry Robles, Television writer, Traveler, Cold Case
"Whether you are living the law or leaving it, you need wise counsel to make your career meaningful. Michael Melcher is the ideal advisor for lawyers contemplating their options. The Creative Lawyer should be mandatory reading for anyone who has ever set foot in law school."
Noah Feldman, Cecelia Goetz Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
"The Creative Lawyer is a smart, practical, and often inspirational guide for any lawyer seeking to build both a better business and a richer life."
Daniel H. Pink, author of A Whole New Mind
"A must-read. It combines practicality with ingenuity to lead lawyers to live more fulfilled, productive and successful lives. Packed with advice, the book is an invaluable guide for lawyers to take the concrete steps and develop the skills they need to live enriched lives and thrive as lawyers."
Deborah Epstein Henry, Founder & President, Flex-Time Lawyers LLC
"This book will be an invaluable resource for every lawyer looking for ways to gain satisfaction from the profession, as well as in his or her life."
Richard I. Beattie, Chairman, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
At last--the book the legal community has been waiting for! Through vivid storytelling and thoughtful exercises, Michael Melcher takes the reader on a guided journey to a new life. The Creative Lawyer will bring fresh answers and energy to legions of stuck lawyers.
Marci Alboher, Author, One Person/Multiple Careers, Online Career Columnist, The New York Times
"A terrific workbook to help lawyers--or anyone--start to figure out how to find fulfillment in their careers. I think law students especially will find value in it... I definitely wish I'd had it to read while in law school, in part just to know there are options out there."
Jeremy Blachman, author, Anonymous Lawyer
"Addresses the professional needs of a lawyer's most often ignored client: her/himself. With clear, direct prose and a dose of humor The Creative Lawyer provides a practical roadmap for achieving professional satisfaction by lawyers regardless of seniority or career path. It should be in everyone's in-box."
Andres V. Gil, Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, NY
"There is no book on the shelves to compare with The Creative Lawyer. Funny, well-researched, and provocative, it's an invaluable guide to understanding yourself better -- not just as a lawyer, but as a person. It's full of useful exercises, relevant case histories, and powerful insights, delivered in unlawyer-like concise and entertaining prose&required reading for anyone who has taken the bar exam -- or, for that matter, anyone who is considering taking the LSAT. "
Gretchen Rubin, Blogger, The Happiness Project, former editor-in-chief, Yale Law Journal
"Michael F. Melcher's The Creative Lawyer should be handed out to every graduating class of law school students at their hooding ceremonies."
Joe Hodnicki, Associate Director for Library Operations, University of Cincinnati Law Library and editor of Law Librarian Blog
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