Inasmuch as my previous post (“Is the Legal Profession Neglecting its Young?”) could be considered a bit inflammatory (though it is meant solely to support the needs of the profession’s newcomers), allow me to convey some additional information provided to…
Physicians follow their academic training with years in hospitals, through internship and residency, partly as cheap labor, but under the watchful/critical eye of more experienced physicians. Psychologists follow their years of classes with a year’s internship and two years’ supervised…
Since I joined the LCL staff in 1998, I have personally seen 2 or 3 lawyers a year who come in distressed, and often depressed, with regard to their role as associate in a law firm. In some cases, they…
Issues of integrity arise (whether or not consciously acknowledged) in all our lives every day – perhaps even more so in the lives of lawyers, who on the one hand sometimes find themselves representing the interests of the dishonest and…
The other day I was telling a colleague about the lives of the lawyers who attend our monthly Solo Practitioners Forum. In the process, he and I both realized that running a solo practice requires a surprisingly long list of…
... Little did I suspect that I would be faced with a significantly larger number of uninsured lawyers after the advent of “universal” coverage here in the Bay State – and virtually nowhere to send them (since the free care…