Balanced Lives: Changing the Culture of Legal Practice

This is an extensively revised and updated edition to our 1990 publication, Lawyers and Balanced Lives. It includes an overview of the challenges posed in accommodating lawyers’ personal and professional commitments, along with recommendations for change and sample policies on alternative work schedules and family leaves. Balanced Lives seeks to enhance the quality of working life for all members of the legal profession. This publication provides detailed guidance on drafting policies, a summary of other bar association sample policies and an extensive bibliography. To order a hard copy of Balanced Lives ($25.00, PC: 4920030) please contact the ABA Service Center at 1-800-285-2221 or click here to view the entire publication now.

For more information contact: The Commission on Women in the Profession
Telephone: 312-988-5715; Fax: 312-988-5790;
E-mail: abacwp@abanet.org