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Stop Doing Time in the Law ... Start Doing Your Life!

International attorney and Solution-Focused Life Coach Helena Clift (LL.M.) offers life coaching for lawyers who are looking for a better balance in their lives and/or who are considering leaving the law.

Life Coaching for Lawyers
Vancouver, BC
Tel: 604.628.3363
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Giving Students the False Idea

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"By giving students the false idea that being a lawyer is all about intellectual debate, we also drive the wrong students to law school in the first place. The hordes of English majors who fill our classes might think twice if they knew that economics and mathematics -- with their emphasis on problem-solving -- are the best preparation for a career in law. Flowery prose is seldom valued by an overburdened judiciary." - Cameron Stracher (Publisher, New York Law School Law Review) in Opinion Journal

 

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Helena's Story

Between 1979 and 1995, I tried to make the practice of law work for me on three different continents, in different-sized law firms, but I still felt as if I were in jail doing a life sentence. I made a lot of money, but I spent a lot of money too -- to compensate for the fact I never had enough time to relax and catch up with myself. I was burned out and miserable, but I kept going because I didn't know for sure there was another path.

 

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