Developing the Next Generation of Rainmakers
I am working on my third novel about my protagonist lawyer, Gabriela Sanchez. Gabriela grew up in the Rio Grande Valley where our daughter taught school, our son-in-law grew up and taught school and one of the top lawyers I mentored grew up.
I started writing the third novel in 2019 before COVID-19. The story…
In a 2017 article titled: 7 reasons Americans are unhappy, I read:
Americans are more unhappy than they were before the great recession.
Then, I found a Washington Post article titled: Why the U.S. rating on the World Happiness Report is lower than it should be –and how to change it. I read:
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I went through most of my career thinking that everyone else enjoyed their legal career as much as I did. Later in my career I could see my initial belief was not true. I could see it in the eyes of many young lawyers.
At that point I began reading articles about how unhappy lawyers…
Did you see the recent CNN opinion piece: Why lawyers are prone to suicide?
I immediately thought of the John Hopkins study finding that lawyers have the highest rate of depression of any profession. According to the study, lawyers were 3.6 times more likely to be depressed than the average. That study was in…