{"id":1219,"date":"2003-08-18T10:16:27","date_gmt":"2003-08-18T14:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/08\/18\/bad-times-at-the-bar-lawyers-leaving\/"},"modified":"2003-08-18T10:16:27","modified_gmt":"2003-08-18T14:16:27","slug":"bad-times-at-the-bar-lawyers-leaving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/18\/bad-times-at-the-bar-lawyers-leaving\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Times at the Bar – Lawyers Leaving"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Although it’s hard to feel sorry for lawyers as a class, years of
\n being the butt of bad shark jokes seem to be taking a toll.  A front
\n page article in today’s Boston Globe highlights a number of local shylocks
\n who are abandoning the barrister business altogether, citing long-term
\n trends such as corporate consolidation and a chronic oversupply of
\n new lawyers exacerbated by the country’s long economic slump
\n and declining public-sector revenues.<\/p>\n

"Generally speaking, being a lawyer today has become much more
\n demanding, much more stressful, and there is less satisfaction from the
\n work," said Boston lawyer and former Massachusetts Bar Association
\n president Thomas F. Maffei. <\/p>\n

Counselors at Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers, which helps attorneys dealing
\n with alcoholism, depression, and other personal problems, say they are
\n seeing more and more clients whose problem is that they are lawyers. "We’re
\n seeing stress and burnout in more lawyers than we ever have before," said
\n executive director Bonnie Waters.<\/p>\n

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\n the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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