FindLaw: Find Satisfaction in the Law: Resources

Resources for Finding Satisfaction in the Law

• Good Works by Jessica Cowan available through Barnes and Noble.
• Harvard Law School's Alumni/ae in Action
• Lawful Pursuit by Ronald W. Fox
• Lawyers in Transition by Mark L. Byers (to order contact CPDL at (617)868-6669)
• The MacCrate Report, Legal Education and Professional Development - An Educational Continuum, Report of the Task Force on Law Schools and the Profession: Narrowing the Gap 1992 (to order call the ABA at (312) 988-5522)
• Soul of the Law by Benjamin Sells available through Barnes and Noble.
• What Color is Your Parachute by Richard Bolle available through Barnes and Noble.
• What You Can Do With a Law Degree by Deborah Arron available through Barnes and Noble.
• Yale Law Graduates at Work

• ABA Young Lawyers Division Career Satisfaction 1995 (to order call the ABA YLD at (312) 988-5608)
• Career Choice and Satisfaction in the Legal Profession by Mark L. Byers, Ph.D. Career Planning and Adult Development Journal Volume 12, Number 1, Chapter 1 Spring 1996. (to order this special issue containing 11 articles on Lawyers and Career Development call the journal at (408) 559-4946).
• "Inspired Choices - What makes people enter the clergy at midlife" The Boston Globe Magazine, December 22, 1996. " When she woke up, she had answered the question she had been pondering for weeks: She would leave her job, a lucrative partnership in a Seattle law firm, to become a minister."
• Lawyer Dissatisfaction: A Question of Meaning? by By Michael Distelhorst, Capital University Law and Graduate Center
• Lawyer Dissatisfaction by William van Zyverden, Esq., of the International Association of Holistic Lawyers
• Passionate about their Work, Lawyers Weekly, October 9, 1995
• "Personality and Interest Inventories In Law Placement" by Mark Byers, In: Perspectives on Career Services, G. Niedzielko And M. Tucker Eds., National Association For Law Placement, 1991.
• "Plank on Law" in the September/October 1996 issue of Tikkun Magazine. "The ethical understanding reflected in our present legal system is heavily tilted toward validating individualism, selfishness and materialism and shows little concern for fostering a sense of community or a spirit of caring for the well-being of others."
• "Taking Control of Your Public Interest Law Career" in Community Jobs, December 1996.
• Unlearning Dissatisfaction by Daniel B. Evans

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