Should Lawyers be Happy?
Should lawyers Be “Happy”? Looking for meaning in our work may be far more important and the key to contentment in our profession. In a recent article on Lawyerist.com, Kate Mangan makes a compelling argument that lawyers should accept some level of negativity in their lives as essential, and even useful, to the practice of law. Rather than focusing on being happy, Mangan suggests that lawyers should, instead, begin a search for meaning in their work. Agreed! Too many times