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Lawyer Know Thyself: A Psychological Analysis of Personality Strengths and Weaknesses (Law and Public Policy: Psychology and the Social Sciences)

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Must-Read for Lawyers - get a happy professional life.

By GLR "Sandeep Dave" - November 16, 2004

This book is many things - 2 books in one; a hothouse of numberless surveys; sourcebook for further research. It is factual, dark, frightening, compelling, objective, a must-read. It is hopeful, optimistic, wholesome.

It has one focus, and direction - the community of lawyers - a breed that others love to hate; the subject of unending ridicule, hatred, and pungent humour; ambulance chasers, cold, aseptic; masculine, competitive, commercial.

Are we all so? What makes us so? Why this universal dislike? Diacoff has a terrible task on hand. And she comes out with flying colours.

She shortlists 3 emerging problems - (1)a lack of "professionalism" - frequent complaints of incivility, discourtesy, "Rambo-style" litigation, unethical behaviour, poor conduct of lawyers and judges; (2) low public opinion of lawyers and the legal profession; and (3) low levels of job satisfaction, and mental well-being among lawyers, distress, alcoholism, and substance... read more

Is it time for a revolution in the legal profession?

By A Customer - January 26, 2004

Professor Daicoff has written an important and pivotal book in "Lawyer. Know Thyself." This book really has two audiences, the legal profession and the rest of us. She has managed to present a very scholarly work in a manner that the lay can easily understand and appreciate. She identifies three critical themes of the American legal system as is presently practiced, i. e. low level of integrity of lawyers and judges, low public opinion of the profession, and low level of job satisfaction. She has presented this work with a very human and distressing vignette of a fictional lawyer in the preface, a very readable body of the book (peppered with lawyer jokes), and voluminous notes at the end of each chapter. These notes are conveniently left out of the main text and allow one to read through without interruption. Yet, the notes reveal not only the depth of the research, which is profound, but also therein is a second book for the educators and scholars. The notes commonly include... read more

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