Law V. Life: What Lawyers Are Afraid to Say About the Legal Profession

With wisdom, humor, and unflinching candor, Walt Bachman takes readers inside the American legal profession and recounts the facts of life for a practicing lawyer. His vivid testimony will change the way we look at American society and the legal system we have created. Anyone practicing law, teaching it, learning it, studying about it, or thinking about whether to do any of these things should read “Law v. Life”. It embodies much of the wisdom that a lawyer will need to practice both successfully and sanely in late 20th century America—and does so in a modest, elegant and refreshing way. Few American attorneys have his exceptional breadth of legal experience, from which Bachman gives rare insight into the dynamics at work affecting the training and actual day-to-day activities of attorneys functioning in our adversarial system, and the stresses those dynamics place on lawyers and everyone who encounters the legal system. This is an important book, at a crucial time in the law and the lives of lawyers.