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The Lawyer as Leader

How to Plant People and Grow Justice

By (author) Artika R. Tyner
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: American Bar Association, Chicago, IL, United States
Published: 15th Jul 2015
Dimensions: w 147mm h 230mm d 18mm
Weight: 320g
ISBN-10: 1627226648
ISBN-13: 9781627226646
Barcode No: 9781627226646
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The Lawyer as Leader: How to Plant People and Grow Justice is an inspiring roadmap designed to help lawyers become effective agents for social change. Based on author Dr. Artika R. Tyner's leadership development and community engagement work, Planting People, Growing Justice[trademark], the book shows how attorneys can use their legal skills to work for social change, contribute to communities that foster social justice, and empower and develop new leaders. The Lawyer as Leader is beacon call for lawyers who wish to harness their skills and training to become leaders in the struggle for social and economic justice.

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This work is a significant contribution to the education of lawyers as leaders of change for social justice. Building on the principles of authentic and shared leadership, the book highlights the importance of lawyers fulfilling their ethical responsibility, leading from wherever and whoever they are. Similar to what is happening in the engineering profession, this work is at the forefront in filling a gap in leadership development for lawyers that is timely and crucial to the responsibilities of the profession. -- Ronald J. Bennett, PhD, Founding Dean & Professor Emeritus of Engineering, University of St. Thomas Dr. Tyner offers us a thoughtful and enlightened view of the role of the lawyer as agent of social change. Focusing on four lawyer-leaders who have inspired change and inspired others to work for change, she shows us an optimistic way for lawyers to lead in their service as the gatekeepers of social justice. Acknowledging the depth and breadth of society's problems, she advocates for lawyers to be trained to be leaders and to lead in the resolution of issues that otherwise seem intractable. -- Sarah Redfield Artika Tyner's book is a call to action. The action she seeks is a fresh, rethinking of legal training. Tyner describes a "New Social Justice Lawyering," which articulates a vision of legal education that recognizes a primary role for leadership development in law school curriculum. The kind of leadership she describes empowers people in our communities whose voices go unheard. Empowering marginalized people requires community organizing skills, and the kind of communication skills that can discover community wisdom, and mobilize the community's assets in support of positive social change. This book provides guidance for developing these and other critical skills in lawyers dedicated to social justice. If we want to live out the greatest promises of democracy, then our definition of leadership must transcend the limiting notion that it is just positional, or that it is part of some zero-sum equation where some people are leaders, and others are not. Because attorneys practice their craft within "the system," it is often difficult to think of them as change agents whose skills and talents can be dedicated to dismantling systems. The re-imagining of institutions requires collaborative leadership skills, not just technical knowledge used to assist clients when they need to "lawyer up." The Lawyer as Leader recognizes this, and offers a good roadmap for legal education for those who want to be involved in creating transformative change in the world. -- John Hamerlinck, Associate Director at Minnesota Campus Compact This book speaks to lawyers whose passion for social justice will be ignited so that they can be true leaders of social change. Professor Tyner not only gives us the vision for becoming effective social justice leaders but speaks to our souls to empower us to take those first steps to serve and transform communities. -- H. Wesley Sunu, Attorney at Law, TRIBLER ORPETT & MEYER P.C. The Lawyer as Leader: How to Plant People and Grow Justice is a young lawyer's practical vision for empowering lawyers to stand in the great legal traditions of Gandhi and Mandela to motivate systematic change. It is a passionate call for the development of coursework in law schools and continuing education curriculum to train lawyers on the fundamentals of leadership that will target critical issues of justice. Dr. Tyner's work is foundational and necessary--not only for the practice of law but that of a more just society. -- Kao Kalia Yang, Author The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir The law is often viewed as an obstacle to justice by change agents and activists. In this groundbreaking book Dr. Artika Tyner argues that this need not be the case and that lawyers are often leaders of social movements. Through profiles of four social justice lawyers Dr. Tyner explores how insights from leadership theory can help us envision the practice of social justice lawyering. This is a crucially important book that will be welcomed by change agents and educators everywhere. -- Stephen Brookfield, John Ireland Endowed Chair, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis-St. Paul