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Book SynopsisNow 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."
Trade ReviewWhether you are living the law or leaving it, you need wise counsel to make your career meaningful. One part Socrates, one part Deepak Chopra, one part cheerleader, 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, professor, Harvard Law School Michael Melcher takes the mystery out of finding and building a fulfilling career. He also breaks the process down into bite-sized chunks that even the busiest lawyer can find time to do in a week. I recommend this book to every attorney I counsel. -- Susan Robinson, Associate Dean for Career Services, Stanford Law School 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, Switched at Birth
