Comments on: On Lawyer Dissatisfaction

By: Leigh

Leigh — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:39:27 +0000

Are you saying that the exciting world of lawyering ala

LA Law
The Practice
Boston Legal
Law and Order

It’s all, …. a lie? :-(

(ps. There are so many interesting albeit not necessarily the best paying options for lawyers that want to feel passion about what they do – so pardon me for sounding a bit cynical but do we think the part about “the yawning gap between the ideals of those entering the profession and the reality” has to do with the reality of the choice they made to take the money vs. the the more meaningful change the world options?)

By: michael webster

michael webster — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:53:04 +0000

Also, don’t discount the fact that most lawyers are super competitive -even in the field of whining about how bad their own life is. Without that attention, how could we persuade ourselves of our own extraordinary importance?

By: Vera

Vera — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:20:09 +0000

hmmm …do we think that this might be tangentially related to the fact that DC has the highest population of lawyers anywhere?

(When I was in my 20s, many a lawyer I worked with would ask me if I was one as well. To some I would answer that I might have become one, but hadn’t, and was relieved (in retrospect) upon discovering what they actually *did* every day.)

I do have much respect for those who rise into it rather than drowning under it.