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April 19, 2009
Topic: What do lawyers do all day?
Lawyers are expected to record every activity during the day - which can be very hard to do. Often at the end of the day I sit back and wonder where the day went and how it could have gone so fast. How could I have missed my dental appointment again? Why does my timesheet where I try to write down everything I do for every client look so blank when I know I have been on the phone all day at the same time I have been trying to respond to the 30 to 60 emails I get every hour.
My calendar may show an appointment with a new client or two, a phone call with a couple of existing clients and a conference call with the judge and opposing counsel on a case set to be tried in two weeks. How can that account for an eight or nine hour day when I eat lunch at my desk?
I once told a human resources type of consultant who was trying to help young lawyers deal with burnout that I am never not working - I am always, at some level or another, working; thinking about a case, a human problem I am charged with trying to solve. Needless to say the consultant was not happy and made a point of making me an example of what not to do. Yet I am not burnt out. I love what I do and am proud to be a lawyer. ~Nancy Zalusky Berg, Esq.
