A lot of us lawyers aren’t happy as lawyers. Some lawyers say: we work ourselves to death – we fancy ourselves as really smart – our clients don’t seem to be in our league in intelligence – we have to wade through the intricacies of thousands of pages of documents while clients jet-set around the world looking at deals and entertaining investors and attending parties – and we make a decent living while our clients get rich! This stinks! I want to be a client!!!
Here are some thoughts, which are really directed mostly at junior lawyers. If you are more senior, then you probably have already done most of what I am suggesting here, either by design or by luck, or you have decided that you are happy with a career as a lawyer……