We’ve all been told being a lawyer is a stressful job. Do you agree? What is the source of your stress? Opposing counsel? Clients? Supervisor? Billables? Something else?

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Leaving the pandemic aside, practicing law is hard. The answers often are not clear cut. Clients sometimes have unreasonable expectations. The hours can be long. The consequences of errors or bad results can be catastrophic. OC and judges can be difficult. Getting and keeping work is harder than ever. Hiring good people is hard, and because law schools don’t teach much we have to train newbies to do basic things. Managing X Gens is really hard. Our colleagues can be demanding. And as we learned in 2008 and again this spring, there’s stress in knowing that just when you think you’re in a roll everything can turn to shit in an instant. I honestly don’t think it’s one particular thing - it’s that the job involves so many things that can generate stress. The likelihood that all of those variables will line up perfectly at the same time is more or less 0, so every day some stress comes from somewhere - although you never necessarily know where that somewhere will be. And that is another source of stress ...

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All of the above and then some

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Right now, keeping all our employees with no paycuts and the firm going when revenues have dropped 35%.

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All of the above. You’re basically not allowed to be human in this profession.

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Clients and opposing counsels primarily.

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Nope

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Procedural deadlines

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