Summer Reading For Lawyers

Just in time for the beach, the ABA Journal has asked 30 lawyers to recommend books every lawyer should read. And these aren’t the typical To Kill a Mockingbird suggestions—the picks include a non-fiction account of the bui­­­­­lding of the Hoover Dam, a field guide to the first year at Harvard Law, and the book that inspired Morris Dees to begin the Southern Poverty Law Center. “[T]he books we treasure are often not the most obvious,” Stephanie Francis Ward writes for ABA. “Sometimes for better, sometimes for worse, they help us define who and what we are—or what we are a part of, or what we have and can endure.”