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The creative lawyer : a practical guide to authentic professional satisfaction / / Michael F. Melcher
| The creative lawyer : a practical guide to authentic professional satisfaction / / Michael F. Melcher |
| Autore | Melcher Michael F (Michael Francisco) |
| Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, Illinois : , : American Bar Association, , [2014] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
| Disciplina | 340.02373 |
| Soggetto topico |
Practice of law - United States
Lawyers - Job satisfaction - United States |
| ISBN | 1-62722-714-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Praise for Michael Melcher and The Creative Lawyer; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; About Michael Melcher; Part 1 Self; Chapter 1: What Happens Now?; Why You Need This Book; Being the Creative Lawyer; Why a Second Edition; How This Book Will Help You; Exercise: A Snapshot of Where You Are Now; Chapter 2: 20 Minutes a Day; The Limits of Critical Thinking; The Big Picture: Creating Your Master Plan; The Details: 20 Minutes a Day on Your Career-Not in Your Career; Exercise: Plan Your Next Ten 20-Minute Sessions; Exercise: Make Your Pledge
Exercise: Identify Your Time BogsList Your Time-Wasting Activities; List Triggering Situations; Take Positive Action; Exercise: Use Issue Spotting to Move Forward, Not Stay Stuck; Scenario; Tasks; The Big Picture; Working and Living More Effectively; Chapter 3: Who You Are Now: Identifying Your Values; When Do You Like Being You?; Your Peak Experiences; Exercise: Your Peak Experiences; Generate Recollections; Detail Your Peak Experiences; Derive Values; Exercise: Interest Questionnaire; The Evolution of Values over Time; Debrief; Evaluating Your Shoulds; Exercise: List Your Shoulds Exercise: Your Restatement of ShouldsExercise: Values Summary; My Top Values; Master Plan Intervention!; Examples of Values; Chapter 4: Living Your Values in Work and Life; Theories of Balance; Lessons from Child Rearing; How Close Are You?; Creating a Values Fulfillment Plan; Exercise: Brainstorming Your Values Plan; Debrief; Chapter 5: Be Clear about Your Trade-offs; The Unlikely Story of Betsy Chao; Betsy's Trade-offs; The Mystery of the Older Law Students; Disaggregating Your Job's Characteristics; Exercise: Identifying Pluses and Minuses; Low-Level Values Conflicts; Career Annoyances Exercise: Career Annoyances You Can Live WithThe Negatives That Go with the Positives; Violations of Your Bottom Line; Exercise: Identifying Your Bottom Line; Living with Ambivalence; Exercise: The Power of "And"; Master Plan Intervention!; Evaluation Point: What's Going On in Your Career?; "How My Job Works for Me"; Exercise: "How My Job Works for Me"; Chapter 6: Exercising Vision; Alicia Walks into a Dream Job; Vision and Ambivalence; Goals versus Visions; Creating Career Visions; Exercise: Creating Career Vision Statements; Examples; Your Career Vision Possibilities Master Plan Intervention!Exercise: Additional Vision Research-Doing Market Research on Yourself; Supporting Your Vision; Exercise: Brainstorming Your Board; Master Plan Intervention!; How Visions Reshape Themselves; Exercise: Interim Vision Assessment; Part 2 Work; Chapter 7: Self-Management and Type; From Aramaic to B-Corps; Exercise: Work Styles Quiz; The Insight of Type; How Preferences Play Out in Work; Extraversion and Introversion; Sensing and Intuition; Thinking and Feeling; Judging and Perceiving; Self-Awareness versus Growth; Exercise: Stretch Yourself by Building on Your Strengths Preference for Extraversion |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798749103321 |
Melcher Michael F (Michael Francisco)
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| Chicago, Illinois : , : American Bar Association, , [2014] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The creative lawyer : a practical guide to authentic professional satisfaction / / Michael F. Melcher
| The creative lawyer : a practical guide to authentic professional satisfaction / / Michael F. Melcher |
| Autore | Melcher Michael F (Michael Francisco) |
| Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, Illinois : , : American Bar Association, , [2014] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
| Disciplina | 340.02373 |
| Soggetto topico |
Practice of law - United States
Lawyers - Job satisfaction - United States |
| ISBN | 1-62722-714-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Praise for Michael Melcher and The Creative Lawyer; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; About Michael Melcher; Part 1 Self; Chapter 1: What Happens Now?; Why You Need This Book; Being the Creative Lawyer; Why a Second Edition; How This Book Will Help You; Exercise: A Snapshot of Where You Are Now; Chapter 2: 20 Minutes a Day; The Limits of Critical Thinking; The Big Picture: Creating Your Master Plan; The Details: 20 Minutes a Day on Your Career-Not in Your Career; Exercise: Plan Your Next Ten 20-Minute Sessions; Exercise: Make Your Pledge
Exercise: Identify Your Time BogsList Your Time-Wasting Activities; List Triggering Situations; Take Positive Action; Exercise: Use Issue Spotting to Move Forward, Not Stay Stuck; Scenario; Tasks; The Big Picture; Working and Living More Effectively; Chapter 3: Who You Are Now: Identifying Your Values; When Do You Like Being You?; Your Peak Experiences; Exercise: Your Peak Experiences; Generate Recollections; Detail Your Peak Experiences; Derive Values; Exercise: Interest Questionnaire; The Evolution of Values over Time; Debrief; Evaluating Your Shoulds; Exercise: List Your Shoulds Exercise: Your Restatement of ShouldsExercise: Values Summary; My Top Values; Master Plan Intervention!; Examples of Values; Chapter 4: Living Your Values in Work and Life; Theories of Balance; Lessons from Child Rearing; How Close Are You?; Creating a Values Fulfillment Plan; Exercise: Brainstorming Your Values Plan; Debrief; Chapter 5: Be Clear about Your Trade-offs; The Unlikely Story of Betsy Chao; Betsy's Trade-offs; The Mystery of the Older Law Students; Disaggregating Your Job's Characteristics; Exercise: Identifying Pluses and Minuses; Low-Level Values Conflicts; Career Annoyances Exercise: Career Annoyances You Can Live WithThe Negatives That Go with the Positives; Violations of Your Bottom Line; Exercise: Identifying Your Bottom Line; Living with Ambivalence; Exercise: The Power of "And"; Master Plan Intervention!; Evaluation Point: What's Going On in Your Career?; "How My Job Works for Me"; Exercise: "How My Job Works for Me"; Chapter 6: Exercising Vision; Alicia Walks into a Dream Job; Vision and Ambivalence; Goals versus Visions; Creating Career Visions; Exercise: Creating Career Vision Statements; Examples; Your Career Vision Possibilities Master Plan Intervention!Exercise: Additional Vision Research-Doing Market Research on Yourself; Supporting Your Vision; Exercise: Brainstorming Your Board; Master Plan Intervention!; How Visions Reshape Themselves; Exercise: Interim Vision Assessment; Part 2 Work; Chapter 7: Self-Management and Type; From Aramaic to B-Corps; Exercise: Work Styles Quiz; The Insight of Type; How Preferences Play Out in Work; Extraversion and Introversion; Sensing and Intuition; Thinking and Feeling; Judging and Perceiving; Self-Awareness versus Growth; Exercise: Stretch Yourself by Building on Your Strengths Preference for Extraversion |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810839503321 |
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Melcher Michael F (Michael Francisco)
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| Chicago, Illinois : , : American Bar Association, , [2014] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Law & reorder : legal industry solutions for restructure, retention, promotion & work/life balance / / Deborah Epstein Henry
| Law & reorder : legal industry solutions for restructure, retention, promotion & work/life balance / / Deborah Epstein Henry |
| Autore | Henry Deborah Epstein <1967-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Place of publication not identified] : , : American Bar Association, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (459 p.) |
| Disciplina | 340.068 |
| Soggetto topico |
Practice of law - Economic aspects - United States
Lawyers - Fees - United States Legal services - Technological innovations - United States Lawyers - Job satisfaction - United States Quality of work life |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-61438-051-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Advance Praise; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Why I Wrote This Book; Acknowledgments; Foreword by Thomas L. Sager, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Dupont; Introduction: The Key to Understanding This Book; PART I: STRUCTURAL SOLUTIONS FOR LEGAL EMPLOYERS; CHAPTER 1: CHANGE IS GOOD; Change Comes to the Legal Profession; Why the Billable Hour No Longer Works; Why the Billable Hour Is So Entrenched; The Economic Downturn-Furthering the Push to Eliminate Billable Hours; Clients Demanding Change
Law Firm Talent: Further Undermining the Stability of the Existing ModelDisaggregation and Globalization of Work; Intersection of Commoditization and Technology; CHAPTER 2: THE RISE OF NEW MODELS OF LEGAL PRACTICE; Axiom and Other New Law Firm Models; Virtual Law Firms; Firms Abandoning the Billable Hour; Hybrid Firms; Blended Professional Services Firms; Publishing Law Firm; Small Firm Alternatives to Practice; Alternative Hour Firms; Flex-Time Firms; Women-Owned Firms; Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO); The Junior Lawyer Fallout; CHAPTER 3: THE LARGE LAW FIRM OF THE FUTURE; Alternative Fees Fix or Flat Fees/Unit PricingSuccess, Bonus, or Incentive Fees; Holdbacks; Retainers; Contingent Fees; Alternative Fee Variations of the Billable Hour; Discounted Hourly Rates; Volume Discounts; Blended Rates; Frozen Rates; Per Diem Rates; Fee Cap; Hybrid; Alternative Fee Opportunities for Women and Work/Life Balance; Changes in Legal Staffing; Use of Temporary Attorneys; Shrinking Associate Classes and Increasing Use of Staff and Non-Partnership Attorneys; Levels/Tiers of Associates; Temporary, Staff, and Non-Partnership Track Attorney Work: The Impact on Women; Compensation Changes in RecruitingContemplating Outside Investors; Ultimate Challenge Facing Large Law Firms: Determining Value; CHAPTER 4: REDESIGNING LAWYERS' CAREER PATHS; Core Competency Programs; Training, Evaluations, and Promotions; Compensation; Billing Rates; Elimination of Bias; Impact on Women; Impact on Reduced-Hour Lawyers; Compensation; Accountability; Contribution; Misconstruing Work/Life Balance as Lack of Aspiration; Progression and Promotion; Apprenticeship and Training; Changes to Law Schools and Law Student Paths; Remaining Challenge: Who Will Train Law Students and Incoming Lawyers? CHAPTER 5: DESIGNING A WOMAN-FRIENDLY EMPLOYERWhy Design a Woman-Friendly Employer?; How to Design a Woman-Friendly Employer; Workforce Profile; Representation; Recruitment and Attrition; Family-Friendly Benefits and Policies; Parental Leave; Phase Back; Childcare; Reentry; Retirement; Flexibility; FLEXIBLE AND REDUCED HOUR ARRANGEMENTS; Reduced-Hour Usage; Reduced-Hour Promotion; Full-Time Flex-Time; Other Flexible Work Arrangements; Leadership, Compensation, and Advancement of Women; Leadership; Promotion; Compensation; Development and Retention of Women; Training and Business Development Mentoring |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465008803321 |
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Henry Deborah Epstein <1967->
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| [Place of publication not identified] : , : American Bar Association, , 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Survey of American lawyers at major law firms : job satisfaction / / Primary Research Group
| Survey of American lawyers at major law firms : job satisfaction / / Primary Research Group |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [New York, New York] : , : Primary Research Group Inc., , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (83 pages) : illustrations, tables |
| Disciplina | 340.0688 |
| Soggetto topico | Lawyers - Job satisfaction - United States |
| ISBN |
1-57440-990-5
1-57440-059-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910149553103321 |
| [New York, New York] : , : Primary Research Group Inc., , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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