Happy To Be a Small-Town Lawyer

According to author Richard L. Hermann, small-town America is a haven for happy attorneys who are satisfied with their clients, careers, and lives in general. This seems to buck the national trend in lawyer job satisfaction. Lawyerist.com maintains that only 55 percent of lawyers overall are happy at work (Lawyerist doesn’t explore the urban vs. small-town happiness divide).

Hermann’s new book, Practicing Law in Small-Town America [Find it] aims at revealing the secrets of small-town lawyerly bliss, and how you can get there yourself. The book is broken up into three easily-skimable sections: (1) defining small-town law practice, (2) a large section of vignettes that gives you a sense of the breadth of the small-town experience, and (3) practical things to consider for starting out in or transitioning to small-town practice.