{"product_id":"9780472025176","title":"Lives of Lawyers Revisited: Transformation and Resilience in the Organizations of Practice","description":"The past two decades have seen profound changes in the legal profession. \u003ci\u003eLives of Lawyers Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e extends Michael Kelly’ s work in the original \u003ci\u003eLives of Lawyers,\u003c\/i\u003e offering unique insights into the nature of these changes, examined through stories of five extraordinarily varied law practices. By placing the spotlight on organizations as phenomena that generate their own logic and tensions, \u003ci\u003eLives of Lawyers Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e speaks to the experience of many lawyers and anticipates important issues on the professional horizon.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Michael Kelly has done it again! His \u003ci\u003eLives of Lawyers Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e is a very easy read about some very difficult notions like 'litigation blindness' and law as a business. It presents some fascinating perspectives on our profession.\"\u003cbr\u003e — J. Michael McWilliams, Past President, American Bar Association\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"The best single book about the American realities and possibilities of the American legal profession, combining an empathic and insightful account of law practice with a penetrating analysis of the wider context of professional work.\"\u003cbr\u003e — Marc Galanter, University of Wisconsin\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Michael Kelly believes that professional values and conduct are not realized in codes, but in the experiences of practice, and that practice draws its routines and ideals from organizations. Through his studies of lawyers in various firms, closely observed and sympathetically described, Kelly reveals how differently organizations adapt to the intense pressures of today's practice environment. His method of linking individual life-experiences to organizational strategies and the external constraints of competition and client demands infuses realism and richness into the concept of professionalism and makes this one of the most interesting and original books on professions and professionalism to appear in years.\"\u003cbr\u003e — Robert W. Gordon, Yale Law School\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"In his two volumes of \u003ci\u003eLives of Lawyers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e Michael Kelly explores legal ethics in an unusual, and unusually rewarding, way. Rather than focusing on rules or arguments, Kelly looks at the kind of lives lawyers lead. Ethics, Socrates thought, is about how to live one's life, and Kelly takes the Socratic question to heart. He explores the institutions lawyers work in and the choices they make. He writes with intelligence, great insight, and above all with heart. This is a superb book.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e — David Luban, Georgetown University\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Michael J. Kelly is President and Chairman of the Board of the National Senior Citizens Law Center, an advocacy group for older Americans of limited means.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Michigan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47081028714736,"sku":"9780472025176","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780472025176_p0.jpg?v=1763707970","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780472025176","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}