Raise the Bar: Real World Solutions for a Troubled Profession.

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Raise the Bar: Real World Solutions for a Troubled Profession

Edited by Laurence J. Fox

In this compilation, members of the American Bar Association Section of Litigation interview lawyers and other trade professionals in an attempt to discover why many lawyers are leaving the legal profession to seek a more satisfying balance between work and home. The culmination of their findings is published in Raise the Bar: Real World Solutions for a Troubled Profession, which offers practical, "real world" solutions for increasing lawyers' satisfaction with their careers.

Contributors--including Scott Turow and Michael Tigar--explore the gap between aspiration and reality and share the experiences that have led them to this urgent call to reinvent the practice (and business) of...