Raise the Bar : Real World Solutions for a Troubled Profession

Foreword vii About the Editor xi Introduction xiii Part I: The Billable Hour 1(30) Our Gilded Cage 3(12) Scott Turow End Billable Hour Goals . . . Now 15(16) Lawrence J. Fox Part II: The Law Firm 31(54) A Pig in a Poke? The Uncertain Advantages of Very Large and Highly Leveraged Law Firms in America 33(20) Michael H. Trotter Organizational Perspectives on Raising the Bar: Five Tentative Solutions 53(16) Robert L. Nelson Law Firms as Great Places to Work 69(16) Dr. Scott Cawood Part III: Being Honest 85(26) A View from Outside the Law Firms 87(16) Bruce D. Collins The Death of Partnership: Can We End the Trend? 103(8) Lawrence J. Fox Part IV: The Work 111(54) A New Path to Excellence: Balanced Hours 101 113(24) Cynthia Thomas Calvert Natalie M. Hiott-Levine Solving the Legal World's Problems: A Sole Practitioner's Perspective 137(28) Roland Baggott Part V: Associates and Mentoring 165(50) Mentoring: Alive and Well? 167(16) Louise A. LaMothe There's No Turning Back: Five Practical Ways to Motivate the New Breed of Associates 183(16) Coke Morgan Stewart Developing Young Lawyers 199(16) Dean Zipser Part VI: Serving the Wider World 215(56) Pro Bono: More Than a Professional Responsibility 217(20) Joanne Martin Stephen Daniels Let's Start a Ripple: Building Diversity in the Legal Profession 237(14) Kay H. Hodge Should We Mandate Doing Well by Doing Good? 251(6) Lawrence J. Fox The Statesman Lawyer: An Oxymoron? 257(8) Robert N. Sayler Service to the Bar 265(6) Robert Grey, Jr. Part VII: Valediction 271(20) The City Upon the Hill 273(18) Michael E. Tigar Index 291