I must be, because I was just interviewed by the celebrated Leslie A. Gordon of none other than the ABA Journal for her article, entitled “How Lawyers can avoid Burnout and Debilitating Anxiety”.
And Leslie also interviewed my old friend, Jeena Cho – and I know she’s famous!
And there’s this great portrait of me taken by the photographer, Len Irish! 
The article does a great job of highlighting the issues of anxiety and burnout among lawyers.
I modestly confess that I particularly liked this quote, which somehow fell trippingly from the tongue of little-ol’ Moi:
It’s important to note that no strategy should be touted as a cure-all. “The implication can become that you’re struggling with anxiety or depression because you’re not doing your yoga or not meditating or not eating right or somehow choosing to go without sleep,” Meyerhofer says, “that it’s your fault for not having mastered some ‘effective strategy’ that would make all these issues disappear.” The fact remains that law can be brutal, and most young associates are not equipped for what they find when they enter the profession, he says. “You’re not tossing and turning in bed, roiled by anxiety, because you’re choosing to eat badly or to skip your yoga class. It has a lot more to do with being thrown into the deep end in an extremely competitive, exploitive business driven not by compassion or collegiality or the desire to mentor, but by profit and money and competition for prestige.”
Thank you, ABA Journal, and Leslie, and everyone who helped produce this piece. I hope the message gets out that being a lawyers doesn’t have to be synonymous with being stressed out and miserable.
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terviewed by the lovely and talented Angela Kopolovich, for her blog. We talked about the relationship between self-esteem, lawyers and happiness. It turns out feeling good about yourself can go a long way towards making you feel happier. Who knew?
I was contacted last year by the very lovely Liz Brown to do an interview for her book, “Life After Law: Finding Work You Love with the JD You Have.”
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