The Servant Lawyer: Facing the Challenges of Christian Faith in Everyday Law Practice

Part guidance to young lawyers and law students and part Christian apologetic for the legal profession, Robert F. Cochran, Jr.'s new book, The Servant Lawyer, is a much-needed addition to the dialogue between the church, the legal profession, and the communities they both serve. For law students, it would be an excellent counterweight to some of the more self-focused books about the formation of lawyers, such as Scott Turow's One L.3 My own time in law school proved a particularly challenging period for remaining devoted to the faith. Law professors, from their position of educational advantage, tended to undermine the biblical worldview, and sometimes presented the law as an alternative frame of reference to Christianity. Faithful Christian counsel like Cochran's The Servant Law-yer might provide fair warning to incipient lawyers and serve as a continuing source of encouragement that devout Christian lawyers can serve God and their community in their everyday practice.