Sleeping
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Biglaw, Perks / Fringe Benefits
Biglaw Firm Encourages Associates To Sleep During Working Hours
Justice never sleeps... except at this firm. -
Boutique Law Firms, Small Law Firms
Test Case: Can I Get On Top Of My Workload By Pulling An All-Nighter At The Office?
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Health Care / Medicine
Feeling Brain Dead? You Probably Need More Sleep
Chances are you've experienced the trauma of sleep deprivation as a lawyer. Stop doing it, because you're killing your brain.
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Federal Judges, Old People, Quote of the Day, Trials
Do Boring Trials Double As Nap Time For 90-Year-Old Judges?
She may be 90 years old, but that doesn't mean she was asleep on the bench. -
Baseball, Jury Duty, Law Professors, Quote of the Day, Sports, Trials
Quote of the Day: And Steroids Are Obviously a Critical Tool of the American Baseball System
Coffee is essential during trials -- how else are the jurors supposed to stay awake? -
Biglaw, Billable Hours, Health Care / Medicine
You Guys Aren't Getting A Lot Of Sleep, Are You?
It doesn't come as a galloping shock to anybody that lawyers average less sleep than almost anybody else. What is surprising is the figure. What the hell kind of lazy lawyer is getting seven entire hours of sleep every day? -
American Bar Association / ABA, Biglaw, Football, Law Schools, LSAT, Morning Docket, Tax Law
Morning Docket: 12.21.11
* Most Americans can look forward to a tax increase in 2012 because our elected officials would rather bicker with each other than do their jobs. Happy freakin’ New Year! [Los Angeles Times] * Duncan Law’s dean sheds some light on why the ABA might have denied the school provisional accreditation. Come on, what’s not […]
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Biglaw, Disability Law, Dubious Defenses, Lawsuit of the Day
Are You Allowed to Have a Biglaw Job If You Need to Sleep All the Time?
Sadly, we now live in a world where it's harder and harder to separate out the really disabled people from those who just can't get their stuff together. To cope, Elie has developed his own little test: if he wouldn't want the disability, it's a real disability. If he'd gladly take the "disability" in exchange for a cash payout, it's probably fake. So let him ask you this: would you take a cash payout from your Biglaw firm if he afflicted you with the dreaded "I'm really sleepy" disability? Yeah, this woman would too.... - Sponsored
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Department of Justice, Food, Guns / Firearms, Law Schools, Media and Journalism, Non-Sequiturs, Technology, United Kingdom / Great Britain
Non-Sequiturs: 05.20.11
* I’m not alone in arguing for apprenticeships in the world of legal education. On the other side of the pond, Chris Ashford likes the idea too. [The Lawyer] * Speaking of legal education, “Some Things Are Funny in Law School.” [Only in Law School] * Congratulations to Mike Sacks — founder of First One […] -
Biglaw, Summer Associates, United Kingdom / Great Britain
Lawyers, You Can Sleep When You're Dead
Biglaw associates have to pull all-nighters quite frequently -- and sometimes they'll have to get by with very little sleep, for multiple nights in a row. As a young lawyer, would you consider going to sleep if your firm approved? -
Biglaw, Drinking, Drugs, In-House Counsel
A Little 'Me Time'
Ed. note: This post is by Will Meyerhofer, a former Sullivan & Cromwell attorney turned psychotherapist. He holds degrees from Harvard, NYU Law, and The Hunter College School of Social Work, and he blogs at The People’s Therapist. His new book, Life is a Brief Opportunity for Joy, is available on Amazon (affiliate link). My […] -
Biglaw, In-House Counsel
Not Worth It
Ed. note: This post is by Will Meyerhofer, a former Sullivan & Cromwell attorney turned psychotherapist. He holds degrees from Harvard, NYU Law, and The Hunter College School of Social Work, and he blogs at The People’s Therapist. His new book, Life is a Brief Opportunity for Joy, is available on Amazon (affiliate link). I […] -
Judge of the Day, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns
Judge of the Day: LaLeshia Walker Alford
Gotta love an elected judiciary. From the New Orleans Times-Picayune: A Shreveport judge’s excessive use of prescription drugs led her to disgrace the judiciary by missing work, falling asleep on the bench, and at times talking gibberish to convicts, the Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled in a 7-0 decision that permanently removed her from office. […]
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