The Lawyer's Song: Navigating the legal wilderness by Hugh Duvall

The perform of legislation could be a gut-wrenching, excessive velocity rollercoaster journey. A journey departing at the hour, each hour, day in and time out. the place its members lock themselves in and brace for take-off. it will possibly even be a gradual go with the flow down a lazy river, touring no swifter than the present. attorneys spend their lives taking those trips, yet they don't take them by myself. the only function of every is to aid a consumer get from one position to a different. The Lawyer's track is a party of this occupation, an exploration of the legal professional as advisor. Hugh Duvall, a pro court docket veteran, explores many of the points of this paintings, from the fervour to the discomfort, from the peaks to the post-journey reflections. Fellow legal professionals brooding about why they entered the career and younger fogeys contemplating taking the plunge will locate knowing inside of those pages.

The Lawyer's Song:

• Explores the complexity of felony perform, breaking it down into twenty separate topics.
• Discusses every one subject in an unique, twin layout - first providing a vignette following a frontier consultant in 1842 Oregon Territory after which discussing an analogous subject because it pertains to the current day perform of law.
• Reinvigorates the battle-fatigued lawyer.
• Explains the demanding situations legal professionals, particularly trial attorneys, face on a daily foundation: Adhering to their oaths, negotiating charges, accepting the load of accountability, enduring the ache of defeat and savoring the serious pride of aiding the customer achieve his or her goals.

The worn and weathered legal professional will emerge from interpreting The Lawyer's tune with renewed realizing, power and function - able to plunge head-first again into raging felony waters.

The Lawyer's track splits open the occupation and lays it naked. The younger pupil contemplating existence as an legal professional will locate his or her view of this paintings replaced, in a couple of methods much less romanticized and in others, extra so.

The Lawyer's track is a music to "sooth the soul, to boost the spirit and have fun our noble occupation. while you are one of these soul, it's a music for you. while you are no longer, when you are of the uninitiated, then listen our song."
- from the Preface