This past weekend my family and I were in the north Boston area for a family event. Our Saturday was wide open and free. My wife and daughter chose to go on a short road trip with some aunts and uncles to New Hampshire and Maine. My 6-year-old son and I chose to spend the day at

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Sure, we want to leave the law. But we have so much else to do … Our day job as a lawyer. Taking care of our kids. Paying our bills. Trying to stay in shape and eat healthy. Trying to have a social life. Getting sleep. And what seems like more and more work …

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We have so much that we want out of our professional career as a lawyer. Stature. Security. Wealth. Social acceptance. For so many of us, it was these needs that drove us in large part to apply to law school and then become a lawyer. We thought becoming an attorney would be the best way

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Last week, I wrote a guest post for Above the Law’s Career Center, about why I went to law school. It was a personal piece … about how I didn’t really think critically about going to law school, and how I’ve resolved lately that going to law school could have been a mistake. And many of

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