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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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Why Lawyers are Unhappy

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"The pervasive disenchantment among lawyers and the concomitant attrition rate among law firms can be remedied. The solutions will be found not by increasing compensation or perks, but instead by using more valuable, but less tangible rewards. This will require changes in law firm culture -- greater emphasis on positive sum games and cooperation -- as well as reforms at three levels: individual, firm wide, and institutional." - "Why Lawyers are Unhappy" from Lawyers Weekly

 

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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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