Advocate and Witness

You don't get to step away. The work keeps coming. The decisions don't wait. And most of the time, the hardest part isn't knowing what the law allows-it's knowing what you should do when it allows more than it should. Advocate and Witness is about that space. Not theory. Not theology in isolation. But the reality of making decisions when you are responsible for someone else, when the right answer costs something, and when no one is watching except you.
Written by a practicing attorney, this book moves through real moments inside the work:- the client who doesn't pay- the mistake you could have used- the pressure to stretch what you bill- the silence that isn't technically wrong-but isn't rightEach chapter stands in the tension between what is permitted and what remains. This is not a book about balance. It is not about easy answers. It is about responsibility.
About the moments where you already know the answer-and decide whether to follow it. If you carry real responsibility in your work and feel the weight of it, you will recognize yourself here.