Other professions are addressing spiritual issues. Studies show that patient care is better with a spiritual component. Business and industry are also looking at this. Silecchia would like to see this perception change by focusing on how lawyers incorporate spiritual perspectives into practicing law. For me, the topic came up because I think it's important to see the work you do as part of a vocation, and not just a job.
Studies come out year after year about how unhappy lawyers are.
There seems to be a sense that the profession is callous, less attuned to the real suffering that is out there. Silecchia draws a distinction between spirituality and ethics. Ethics focuses on the things we should not do. Spirituality calls us to do more than the minimum. It's not merely a rule-based code of conduct.