Work-life balance
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Pictures, Travel / Vacation
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Biglaw, Billable Hours
Will Millennials Make The 2,500-Hour Year The New Normal?
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Career Center, Career Files, Health / Wellness, Lawyers
From The Career Files: Mindfulness And Emotional Eating
When I started working at a law firm, the first things I did were set up my voicemail and gain ten pounds.
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Billable Hours, Women's Issues
The Billable Hour Is A Feminist Issue
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Wall Street
UBS Magnanimously Grants Employees Two Hours Of Personal Time Each Week
You’ll have to work an extra two hours to justify the time, but never mind you that. -
Biglaw, Money, Technology
How To Say Goodbye To Your Biglaw Salary
How much money would you be willing to give up to have some work-life balance? -
Biglaw
Biglaw Firm Actually Does Something About Work/Life Balance
This firm is showing real dedication to the concept of work/life balance. -
Admin, Blogging, Media and Journalism, Rankings
Above The Law's Top 10 Most Popular Posts Of 2015
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.15.15
* Daaaammmmn. Some serious shade as Greenberg Traurig CEO Richard Rosenbaum takes a swipe at Dentons. Video below the jump.
* Lamar Odom is still technically married to Khloe Kardashian, thereby giving his estranged wife authority when it comes to medical decisions. Good, because I think we were all hoping a man’s tragic health crisis could be fodder for May Sweeps. [Eonline]
* Linklaters is “internally crowdsourcing” to find a solution to provide a better work-life balance. Jesus. Bring on the necessary resources to cap any individual’s work week at 60 billable hours and move on. Anything less is just an invitation to rearrange deck chairs on the Titanic. [Law360]
* Looks like NPR’s hit podcast Serial is ready for a second season. [The Onion]
* Dewey think these deliberations will ever end? [The Am Law Daily]
* Ah, the life of in-house counsel: writing bitchy emails to customers telling them how stupid they are. [L.A. Times]
* Rand Paul explains how “liberty” works for gay people. [Gawker]
* Before joining a class action, make sure aren’t advertising your own criminal behavior to authorities. [Times-Picayune]
* And here’s that Greenberg Traurig-Dentons swipe. This strikes me as an ill-considered decision given that Dentons is known as a firm that doesn’t start fights, but sure as f**k ends them. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA]
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Small Law Firms
Three Words That Should Be Banned: Work-Life Balance
If you've been struggling with work-life balance, give yourself the permission to let go of the struggle. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.26.15
* Melvin Feliz, husband of Keila Ravelo, the partner who allegedly bilked Hunton & Williams and Willkie Farr out of millions to lead a life of luxury, pleaded guilty in the fraud case brought against him. Is she a prospective Real Housewife of Cellblock D? [Bergen Record]
* Sorry, Southwest passengers, but the Seventh Circuit says you’re stuck with your free drink vouchers, and the lawyers who represented you in this class-action suit are stuck with their $1.65 million. No one is happy up in the unfriendly skies. [Associated Press]
* China’s economy may be on the brink, but that doesn’t matter to Dentons. The firm is as happy as ever about its proposed merger with Dacheng because it really wants a horde of lawyers, so it’s gonna get one. It’s “almost absurd” to think otherwise. [Am Law Daily]
* As we mentioned yesterday, lawyers work too damn much — so much, in fact, that they’re quitting their Biglaw jobs, starting competitor practices, and poaching talent from top firms by offering them a sense of work-life balance. [Harvard Business Review]
* Kevin Fagan, perhaps better known as Juror 83 in the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev trial, is speaking to the media about his experience, and says he might’ve changed his death penalty vote if he had known the youngest victim’s parents opposed it. [WSJ Law Blog]
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In-House Counsel
The Road Not Taken: You Are Not Your Job
You are not your job and it is important to learn this sooner rather than later. Find a hobby -- before it's too late. -
Job Searches
Back In The Race: Why People Will Continue To Be Eager To Enter Amazon's Dark Jungle
Why do people strive to work for organizations (including law firms) that these employees know will require fierce competition and brutal hours?
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Biglaw, In-House Counsel
2 Thoughts On What To Do When You're Exhausted And Just Want To Mail It In
In-house columnist and former Biglaw partner Mark Herrmann offers thoughts for lawyers, especially associates, on what to do when you're too tired or too overburdened to produce great work product. -
Biglaw, Drinking
Biglaw Wife Says Drunk Husband Spends So Much Time At Firm He Thinks His Office Is His Home
This is incredibly sad, and an indictment on the Biglaw way of life as a whole. -
Biglaw, Food
Which Biglaw Firm Is Being Compared To A 'Sweatshop'?
Has this high-powered Biglaw firm been running afoul of state labor laws all this time? -
Biglaw, Technology
When Millennials Rule The World Of Law
Tech is going to change the way firms bill, train, and manage all aspects of the practice. That's not a prediction, it's an inevitability. -
Biglaw, Kids
Biglaw Mommy: Take Care Of Yourself
Being a mom is not all that different from being a Biglaw associate -- and this is not a good thing, according to Mommy Dear, Esq. -
Money, Rankings
Where Is The Best Place To Live For A Lawyer?
Are you looking to relocate? According to one study, these are some of the best places a lawyer can settle. -
Biglaw, Money
The Cost Of Leaving Biglaw In Dollars
What price do you pay if you leave Biglaw -- and what price do you pay if you stay?