Transforming Practices

Title: Transforming Practices
Author: Steven Keeva
Publisher: Contemporary Books, 1999.

This work surveys the efforts of individuals and institutions to address and transform the issues of spiritual and emotional bankruptcy in the modern day practice of law. Published in 1999, it portrays the awakening of the potential for something new and different by giving us real life examples of people who are already showing the way. Some have found personal peace and serenity in the traditional practice of law by applying heightened spiritual understandings to their workaday lives. Others have rejected the traditional methods of law practice entirely and have embarked on the journey to create new forms of legal practice that embrace healing and wholeness in the place of adversarial posturing and endless grasping for billable hours. The author shows us cutting-edge organizations dedicated to informing and supporting those practitioners who seek change yet feel alone in the search. Other groups are working toward improving the education of new lawyers, so that they may begin their practicing lives with a better grasp of the options available to them, thus avoiding the burnout and disappointment experienced by so many who have come before. Finally, the author shows us a new type of client, ready to demand a higher level of understanding and humanity from the lawyers they employ, eager to participate in resolution of their legal problems using the innovative methods being created by these legal pathfinders. If there is a weakness in this book, it is that the author has undertaken a larger subject than can adequately be explored in one single book, as the reader is left with an appetite for more information, more depth, and more answers.

This book is currently out of print but copies are available on Amazon.