This Just In: Best Friends at the Bar

Susan Smith Blakely’s Best Friends at the Bar: The New Balance for Today’s Woman Lawyer [Find it] can be broken down into two major sections: work/life balance and career transitions. The first part of the book gives tips and advice for overcoming the challenges facing women who strive to balance their professional and personal lives. Topics covered include pursuing meaningful work, gaining perspective, taking the time needed for good work, living within your means, and taking credit for what you do. The second part of the book acknowledges that law firm practice is not necessarily a viable long-term career path for all women. This part of the book gives examples of career transitions women have made from law firm practice to other types of practice, such as in-house counsel, public interest, government, solo practice, consulting, academic, judiciary, and alternative dispute resolution.