Bücher von Nelson P. Miller

Law studies and law practice present psychological, emotional, ethical, and other challenges that test the faith of law students and lawyers. Failures in faith can produce doubt, fear, anxiety, and even depression, substance abuse, and burnout. Law studies and law practice, like other worthwhile yet challenging endeavors, force law students and lawyers to define and commit to articles of faith.This guide helps law students and lawyers connect law studies and practice to faith, to give pursuit of a law career its greatest meaning. The guide illustrates how law students and lawyers develop in faith, passing through moral fields to discover and embrace a transcendent law practice--one that blesses the lawyer and lawyer's family while supporting and serving the flourishing of others.By footnoting the guide with Bible verses, the author shows law students and lawyers how closely law study and law practice are to faith, and how traditional forms of faith can guide and support a law student and lawyer in professional development. Even those who do not sense law studies and law practice to be spiritual pursuits can benefit from this unique and thought-provoking text.Chapters include:Introduction: Law as an Expression of Faith (Morality, Faith, Redemption, Transformation);Chapter 1: Law Studies: Challenges Strengthening Faith (Belief, Obedience, Honesty, Truth);Chapter 2: Law Knowledge: Faith at Law's Foundations (Love, Covenant, Provision, Community);Chapter 3: Law Skills: Faith Informing Services (Reason, Relationship, Counsel, Discernment);Chapter 4: Law Identity: Becoming a Lawyer of Faith (Calling, Character, Fitness, Responsibility);Chapter 5: Law Practice: The Demonstration of Faith (Service, Stewardship, Diligence, Charity);Conclusion: Faithful Professionals;Suggested Readings

Written to help the transition from graduate to lawyer, the Law Graduate's Guide reveals that law school has a hidden curriculum. While studying, completing course requirements, and making progress toward a law degree, students should also be deliberately planning their career and professional development.This guide helps law students identify, organize, and make the best use of career and professional-development advice and resources in order to link their education with a meaningful career.The Law Graduate's Guide has three parts organized around knowledge, skills, and ethics. Each of these has three parts of its own on: (1) school (the law school curriculum); (2) tools (professional-development resources); and (3) transitions (career paths and opportunities).The guide includes graduate success stories illustrating each practice; career and professional-development advice from dozens of judges, lawyers, and law school deans and professors; and exercises for each recommended activity. Appendix A lists the activities that each section of the guide describes, making for an index. Appendix B lists the same activities in roughly chronological order, recognizing that many of the activities arecontinuous and overlapping.