Amazon Planting People Growing Justice Category:  Education/Training Publisher: American Bar Association ISBN-10:  1627226648 Type: Non-Fiction Pages: 238 Copyright: September 7, 2015 ISBN-13: 9781627226646 The Lawyer as Leader: How to Plant People and Grow Justice is an inspiring roadmap designed to help you become an effective agent for social change and transformational leader. Imagine if community members across the world began planting seeds of social change, justice, and freedom. Could you be the one who plants the seeds for the promotion of access to affordable housing, fair sentencing, educational equity, or racial justice? This is your beckoning to lead—will you answer the call? The Lawyer as Leader: How to Plant People and Grow Justice is an inspiring roadmap designed to help you become an effective agent for social change and transformational leader. The social justice challenges of our time are enormous. About one in seven U.S. residents live in poverty and the disparity between the haves and have-nots is wider than at any point since the Great Depression. The poor are largely marginalized from the public policy process and often are unable to assert their legal rights in regard to basic necessities such as nutrition, health, shelter, income, education, and protection from violent physical abuse. More broadly, the poor are perpetually victimized by systems which maintain and uphold discrimination, disparate outcomes, and subordination based upon one’s social identity.

Kirkus Review
For anyone entering the world of law, this is a crucial read that offers a powerful message about effecting positive social change.



Thomas E. Holloran Holloran Center for Ethical Leadership in the Professions, University of St. Thomas School of Law; Former President, Medtronic, Inc.
Highly recommended. The author is a wise and experienced change agent.

Debra A. Lindh, Ed.D. President and Founder, Mindful Effect, LLC
The Lawyer as Leader: How to Plant People and Grow Justice is a very powerful read – inspiring, empowering, motivating, immediately useful and applicable across business sectors and professions. This book addresses what leaders today and in the future can employ to develop others as well as develop his/her self. A must-read for anyone passionate about promoting social change!