A Good Lawyer: Secrets Good Lawyers [And Their Best Clients] Already Know

Book Synopsis: Do you want to be a good lawyer? Do you want your spouse, your child, your parent, or your friend to be a good lawyer? Do you want to know if your lawyer is a good lawyer or how to recognize a good lawyer? Are you thinking about, or are you now, going to law school?Stephen Comiskey wrote "A Good Lawyer" to help you to answer those questions. It's a little book by a lawyer for lawyers on the essence of lawyering much like, for all who write, Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style" is a little book by writers for writers on the essence of writing. It's a book for lawyers, of course, but it is also a book for clients, potential clients and for everyone curious about our legal system and our legal processes. It speaks to and about lawyers in useful practical terms that all who read it, whether or not they are lawyers, can understand and immediately use to reinforce or to reconsider their own beliefs or to discuss with their own lawyers. "The reader I always had in mind as I wrote it was a lawyer, of course, but looking over that lawyer's shoulder and also reading it was that lawyer's client. I hope it generates discussions between and among lawyers and our clients about what we should expect from each other." Introduction to "A Good Lawyer.""A Good Lawyer" may be the only book that the State Bars of New York, Michigan, Kansas, and Texas have each serialized and published in its entirety in their respective Bar or Bar Association Journals for all of their lawyer bar members to have their own copy of. Numerous other State Bar Journals including, Missouri, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington State have, likewise, also published one or more entire chapters of "A Good Lawyer" for all of their lawyer bar members to have. It has been referenced in non-lawyer professionalism and leadership articles and white papers. Several of its guideposts have been quoted in "Readers Digest", for example: "You can delegate authority, but not responsibility." Stephen Comiskey.