Check out a great piece at the ABAJournal discussing how lawyers can avoid burnout:
“Soon after graduating from New York University School of Law and joining the corporate practice of a white-shoe Manhattan law firm, Will Meyerhofer gained 45 pounds, was sleep-deprived and was frequently sick. ‘I was a nervous wreck. I was shattered,’ says Meyerhofer, who’d also graduated from Harvard. ‘Even though I got to the very top, I was treated like an idiot and I felt I didn’t belong in the field. I was a mess. At the end of the day, I really only looked forward to seeing my dog.'”
Read: How lawyers can avoid burnout and debilitating anxiety at the ABAJournal