Do you find yourself advising clients on the issues that go beyond the law –

• Helping the client think through a problem he's up against?
• Analyzing alternatives in order to reach a sound decision?
• Coming up with a workable course of action?

If you do – and for most experienced lawyers today, this is a significant aspect of their practice – then you simply must read James C. Freund's latest book, Advise and Invent: The Lawyer as Counselor Strategist and Other Essays.

For those of you who have read Mr. Freund's classic work, LAWYERING: A Reaslistic Approach to Legal Practice, his latest effort can be viewed as advanced lawyering – a post-graduate course in some of the more subtle and significant aspects of client advice, including:

• The anatomy of making a decision;
• Dealing with a client who doesn't know his own mind;
• Coping with unconscious bias that can influence good judgment;
• Framing questions so as not to influence the answer.

And then, there's an intimate look at the lawyer in his role as strategist – which is just what Mr. Freund does in real life, as a leading New York M&A Lawyer – working his way through a thorny dilemma that's confronting his client, in order to arrive at a workmanlike resolution.

And that's not all that Advise and Invent has to offer. There are also a number of other essays by Mr. Freund on a wide variety of subjects, including:

• Writing;
• The legal profession – and particularly women lawyers;
• Vacations;
• Memory, assumptions, one-upmanship, bores, junk mail and other fascinating topics.

Out of print. Available at Amazon.com.