God's Lawyer Pens Legal Help Book (author is FReeper)

Legal Blog Watch ^ | 3/28/2008 | Robert J. Ambrogi

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When a legal self-help book is promoted as coming from God's legal department, you can't ask for a higher authority. That's the pitch for the new book from "Christian lawyer" Stephen L. Bloom, The Believer's Guide to Legal Issues, due out April 1. "I've seen people, including Christian believers, getting caught up in very painful legal nightmares, damaging their relationships, making themselves miserable, all by following traditional secular legal advice and values," Bloom says. "So I've written this book to empower people to rise above the mindset of greed and revenge so prevalent in the law, to draw them instead to God's vision of lasting peace, restored relationships and true justice."

A partner at the firm of Irwin & McKnight in Carlisle, Penn., Bloom is an adjunct professor of business at Messiah College, a legal columnist for Good News Daily and the former host of a radio program, "Practical Counsel -- Christian Perspective." According to his personal Web site, he regularly speaks at churches, colleges and professional schools, and elsewhere, offering advice on how audiences can "integrate Biblical Christian values and perspectives into their real-life decisions." His new book, according to information on this site, addresses common legal issues such as real estate, wills and trusts, bankruptcy, divorce, litigation and business. His goal, he says, is to discuss these issues from a Biblical perspective:

By presenting the unique and practical Christian perspective of a lawyer informed by God’s rich array of relevant scriptural wisdom and tempered by two decades of representing and counseling real life clients on the very same kinds of legal situations its readers now face, this book will release multitudes of Christian believers from the tangled web of moral confusion and ethical compromise so often promoted and exacerbated by lawyers and the legal establishment.

Among readers' reviews of the book at Christianbook.com, there are the good words any writer might pray for. One reviewer calls it "a page turner -- easy to read and yet powerful in applying Scripture to real life situations." No word, however, on feedback from the legal department's Chief Legal Officer.

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Interesting feature from Legal Blog Watch on my upcoming book...

[the invisib1e hand]

I guess if I were God's lawyer, I'd be handing out cards everywhere, too.

you'll need self-deprecating wit to appreciate that.

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As you might say (?)

I have no choice...

because God freaking rocks.

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As you might say (?)

Don't cyberstalk me, bro.

[the invisib1e hand]

That was a good response. Godspeed.

And all this back and forth helps keep your thread visible.

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That was a good response

Thanks - you had me stuned there for a moment - oh, and thanks yet again for making sure every single product or service I wanted or needed today was readily available to me at my convenience.

[mojo114]

I sincerely hope your book is successful. The book is entitled “Believer’s guide to legal issues”.

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I sincerely hope your book is successful

Cool - much appreciated! Hoping it reaches a lot of folks struggling with tough situations.

[nw_arizona_granny]

I am proud of you.

Good job.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Ping.

[the invisib1e hand]

Thanks - you had me stuned there for a moment - oh, and thanks yet again for making sure every single product or service I wanted or needed today was readily available to me at my convenience.

We do our best.

[gardengirl]

Congrats LL!

Thanks for the ping, Granny. I’m afraid my books are much lighter in nature—strictly for pleasure. I’m about 3/4 done with a childrens story. I let my niece read it and she told me—”That’s so good—it’s just like a real book!” Tickled me. She is a voracious reader, as are many in our family.

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IBTZ

(Good luck, nooB)

[nw_arizona_granny]

You are welcome.

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Good job

Thanks, granny! This is the week...

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Congrats LL!

Thank you, gg...

What do you write? (in addition to the children's story you mention)

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IBTZ

Um, zot not in forecast...

[nw_arizona_granny]

Have you started the follow up book?

LOL, I caught that line about past radio shows, you got me on that one.

[BibChr]

(It was a joke)

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(It was a joke)

Good - I'm sort of off my game today - but I had decided it was most likely a good-natured poke...