{"id":7884,"date":"2007-08-22T17:09:07","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T22:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/08\/22\/nap-room-ethics-for-lawyers\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:44","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:44","slug":"nap-room-ethics-for-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/08\/22\/nap-room-ethics-for-lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"nap room ethics for lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 W<\/strong><\/em>e’ve got too much to do today to delve into anything at great length (yes, a bonus for our long-suffering readership). So, here’s a sleeper of a post, and we hope to have a few more of our q.s. quickies<\/a> later tonight:<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 David Lat of Above the Law<\/em> learned about corporate napping in the recent NYT<\/em> article “That Yawn After Lunch Is Perfectly Normal<\/a>” (New York Times<\/em>, Aug. 19, 2007), and asks “Biglaw Perk Watch: Nap Rooms?<\/a>” (Aug. 22, 2007; hat tip to “Ed” at Blawg Review<\/a><\/em>). Lat wonders<\/p>\n

“Does anyone know of a law firm with a “nap room”? . . . If medical residents who are on-call get nap rooms, why can’t Biglaw lawyers?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The usual AtL<\/em> comment rabble respond, in their customary hypo-edifying style, but they missed — as the young and unseasoned often do — a\u00a0 very important aspect of the fight for more law firm nap rooms:<\/p>\n

\"napHammock\" With the snowballing Graying of the Bar<\/a>, and the ethical duty of law firms to protect clients by putting into place procedures that will help compensate for the age-related physical and mental problems of older lawyers [see my article “No Senior Discount at the Ethics Bar<\/a>” (The Complete Lawyer<\/em>, Vol. 3 #4, July-August 2007)], it appears to be an ethical violation not<\/em> to furnish nap rooms for attorneys at any firm with Boomers and other Geezers on the roster. Throw in Americans with Disabilities Act arguments, and age discrimination\/EEOC issues, and we have the makings of a great cross-generational campaign to make sure lawyers can nap in comfort and without stigma in law firms across the nation.\u00a0 So, get to it Lat et al<\/em>, your elders are here with moral support and all the mentoring you need (right after our afternoon nap, of course).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n

Discovery channel \u2013
\nan older male vanquished
\nheads for the hills<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

within the red wine
\na nap in my chair<\/p>\n

……………………. Tom Clausen<\/a> – Upstate Dim Sum<\/em> (2003\/II)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

a noon nap \"napperPark\"
\non a good day\u2026
\nfirst rainbow<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n

his quick nap
\nis just pretend\u2026
\nhermit crab
\n\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. by Kobayashi Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue — Find more nap haiku<\/a> and senryu in our posting of June 6, 2007 on horizontal punditry<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We’ve got too much to do today to delve into anything at great length (yes, a bonus for our long-suffering readership). So, here’s a sleeper of a post, and we hope to have a few more of our q.s. quickies later tonight: \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 David Lat of Above the Law learned about corporate napping […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[555,3513],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haiku-or-senryu","category-lawyer-news-or-ethics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-23a","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12488,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884\/revisions\/12488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}