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"Burning the Candle at Both Ends?"

This post was written by Julie A. Fleming:

I burn my candle at both ends
It will not last the night.
But ah my foes and oh my friends
It gives a lovely light.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

"What do you think when you read this?  If you're like many lawyers, you felt a flutter of recognition -- perhaps just before you recoiled at the idea that, perhaps your candle won't "last the night."  It's just the weak who can't burn and burn and burn, right?

Sustainability isn't an exciting word, and most of us don't see it as something to aim for.  After all, we tend to want bigger and better and more, not homeostasis.  What does it mean, though, to have a "sustainable practice?"...

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Source: Life at the Bar, 10 February 2010. © Life at the Bar LLC Blog, reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on February 16, 2010 (boomark / email).