The Reflective Counselor: Daily Meditations for Lawyers | 
| Authors: F. Gregory Coffey, Maureen C. Kessler
Publisher: American Bar Association
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 83742
Media: Paperback
Pages: 370
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Dimensions (in): 6.4 x 6.4 x 1
ISBN: 1590319567
Dewey Decimal Number: 340
EAN: 9781590319567
ASIN: 1590319567
Publication Date: October 25, 2008
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Product Description
This 370 page meditation-a-day book is designed to help lawyers recover their spiritual strength in their hectic world. Each daily entry appears on a single page and includes an introductory quotation, followed by a refection inspired by that quotation. Themes found in the book include overcoming fear, personal beliefs and values, maintaining integrity, personally defining success, dealing with difficult people, and common workplace challenges.
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A much-needed tool for lawyers September 22, 2008
Patrick E. Longan (Macon, GA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Lawyers spend much of their professional lives deciding what they should do about whatever legal problems have their attention at the time. They do not spend nearly as much time reflecting on who they are becoming as a result of the demands of the profession. To find deep meaning in their work, and to align their personal and professional lives, lawyers need to undertake the habitual practice of reflection. F. Gregory Coffey and Maureen C. Kessler have produced a marvelous tool to help lawyers do this in The Reflective Counselor: Daily Meditations for Lawyers. Each reading is insightful and provocative. Each provides an occasion for readers to think about how they are living and practicing, and to consider how they can be good lawyers, and good people, at the same time. That type of reflection is what lawyers too often fail to do, and this book is a rich resource that will help them do so in a meaningful way.
Get Wisdom Every Day September 30, 2008
Arline Mann
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
"The Reflective Counselor" makes you look at your work and your life freshly and thoughtfully every day. There are precious few books about which one could say that. As wonderful as our rewarding work life and all our electronic gadgets are, they seem to lead us to do many things simultaneously, to do all of those things super-quickly, and consequently to skim the surface of the events and challenges in our lives. The daily quotations and commentary in "The Reflective Counselor" make the reader focus on things more basic and more human. My only problem was that I found that I could not limit myself to reading only one page per day. I was too thirsty for the wisdom in this book.
A Centering Experience September 28, 2008
RN (NY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
While reading this book, I realized that each daily reading provided a centering experience for those involved in the legal profession. For the college student trying to gain insight into the profession, the law student pouring over documents for the next day's class, the beginning attorney faced with decisions, doubts, and fatigue from hours of work, to the seasoned attorney, who perhaps has gone on "auto-pilot" and can't seem to face another day at work, this book can provide a few moments of peace and reflection each day. Building on this, the reader will be inspired to find meaning and satisfaction in their work. The implicit message in this book is that when one reads, reflects and acts in a conscientious, appropriate manner, the client, society, and yes, the lawyer, benefit.
A Daily Reminder of Why We Became Lawyers October 1, 2008
Denis F. Cronin
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Reflective Lawyer is a brilliant and keenly insightful diary that provides a daily reminder to lawyers of the ideals we aspired to when we entered the "noble profession" of the law. Buy the book, put it on your desk, and read it every day--it will make you a better lawyer, a better counselor, and a better person. Denis Cronin, senior partner, Vinson & Elkins (New York)
Not just for lawyers, but for anyone in a personal service profession November 16, 2008
Laura (New York USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book of reflections, co-authored by a practicing psychologist and an ordained minister (who herself was once a practicing attorney), is designed to provide lawyers with a daily "meditation" on issues related to the difficult situations they face on a regular basis. Each calendar day, a quotation is presented, along with a discussion of its application to the difficulties of the practice of law. The book is designed so that you can jump right in, for example, to today's thought:
"After all, it is those who have a deep and real inner life who
are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life."
The authors then point out, correctly, that as lawyers, we can only change our own behavior, not that of others, giving cogent examples that illustrate their point brilliantly. The wisdom presented here is not just life-affirming (and profession-affirming!), but if remembered at critical points, could certainly improve the lawyering skills of many.
As a lawyer who has taken a different road after many years of practice, what I find in this book is advice and wisdom that is easily applicable to anyone working in a service-related profession. "The Reflective Counselor" could just as easily be titled "The Reflective Accountant" or "The Reflective Surgeon" (albeit with occupation-specific examples). Anyone in a high-pressure environment, where the concerns of the client or patient should come first, would benefit from the very practical counsel offered here.
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