15 Holiday Gift Ideas for Lawyers Seeking Balance
If you need a gift for a lawyer--or for yourself--that reflects an interest in improving work/life balance or your understanding of their work/life situation, this list is for you! Talk about holiday shopping made easy!
15 Holiday Gift Ideas for Lawyers Seeking Balance
Books - Non-fiction
1. Julie Tower-Pierce, Staying at Home, Staying in the Law: A Guide to Remaining Active in the Legal Profession While Pursuing Your Dreams (American Bar Association, 2008)
2. Carolyn Elefant, Solo by Choice: How to Be the Lawyer You Always Wanted to Be
3. Jacquelyn Slotkin, It's Harder in Heels: Essays by Women Lawyers Achieving Work-Life Balance
4. Michelle LaRowe, Working Mom's 411: How to Manage Kids, Career and Home - Available for shipping early 2009
Books - Children's Books
5. Kristie Finnian, Mommy's High Heel Shoes - This is an adorable book, perfect for helping kids understand the many hats Moms wear. 
Baby Gear
6. Ergo Baby Carrier. Darling Hill lawyer moms love the Ergo. A multitasking dream. Clean the house, run errands, hit the law library, bond with baby, all at the same time.
Electronics
7. BlackBerry - Curve. The perfect gift for multitasking lawyer parents - and now available at lower prices since the introduction of the Storm and Bold models. Mom will love this PDA - especially the efficiency and ease of use.
8. Wii Fit. Exercise, get fit, have a blast--in your living room. 
9. Digital Pen / Scribe. Draw, write, touch up photos, take notes - convert your "handwritten"" work to digital.
Clothing, Accessories, Beauty Products
10. S.I. Uplift and "C" Essentials Lines of Skin Care Products by Seriesse International. Products designed to refresh tired, stressed skin.
11. Zutano. Mix and match your child's clothing - say goodbye to morning clothing battles - Zutano pieces look fun together, regardless of how they are put together - so you can get out the door on time!
Green - Home
12. Seventh Generation Eco-friendly Cleaners and kid-safe detergents. This is one company working for the environment. Seventh Generation products are easy and safe to use. Multi-use cleaners save mom and dad time and money.
Magazine Subscriptions
13. PINK Magazine.
14. Working Mother Magazine. Lawyers will love the annual ranking of best law firms for women.
Travel - Past Memories
15. Surprise your favorite lawyer with a Shutterfly photo album of your law school days or that class trip to the Supreme Court. Sure, it will take a few minutes to create, but this is one gift that will be appreciated for years to come.
© 2008 Darling Hill. All Rights Reserved.
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We at LawTunes heartily applaud your emphasizing the importance of lawyers maintaining a sense of perspective, and your suggestions are great. We humbly also suggest that another great lawyer gift for lawyers seeking balance is indie music label LawTunes' (www.LawTunes.com) unique CDs of humorous, lawyer-created, law-related rock-and-roll songs: "Merry Lexmas From The Lawtunes," "The Lawyer's Holiday Humor Album," "Legal Holidaze," and "The Lawtunes: Live At Blackacre." Songs such as "It's Gonna Be A Billable Christmas," "Rainmaker Reindeer," "Hey, Santa, I Appeal," "North Pole Bar Exam," "I Got A Footnote In My Stocking," "We're All Just Elves," and "Ridin' On A Red-Eye With Santa On Christmas Eve" take on the law, lawyers, and legal practice in a hilarious, but positive, way, "including but not limited to" bar exams, ridiculous hours and the other sacrifices lawyers (and their families) make, client relations, the adversarial system, the art of negotiating, time records and legal bills, impossible deadlines, legal reasoning and argument, cross-examination, business travel, lawyer marketing, headhunters and lateral movement, continuing legal education, mountainous document review and production, legal citation style, expert witnesses, and year-end bonuses. LawTunes' albums are dedicated to the proposition that lawyers' zealous representation of clients and furtherance of the public good can be only enhanced by a healthy willingness of lawyers to poke fun at themselves appropriately on occasion, and contribute to the effort to make people think a little differently about lawyers, and show that attorneys are not necessarily humorless, boring, or incapable of self-deprecation. Thanks again and Happy (Legal) Holidays.