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"Why Are So Many Lawyers So Depressed?" / Crime statistics as an economic indicator, or vice versa?

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

This is right off the Wall Street Journal Blog: Why Are So Many Lawyers So Depressed?, posted by Peter Lattman, from December 13, 2007. I just found it today: Maybe it’s the Luddite in us, but the Law Blog has been reluctant to vlog. But I guess we’ve been waiting for just the right video. And this morning, we’ve got it. Here’s how it opens: I was called into a conference room here at the office to be told that I was being made a shareholder or a partner. And I remember just smiling and nodding my head and acting like I was excited and in my head saying almost audibly to me, “You have no idea what’s going on with me. I’m dying right in front of your eyes and you don’t have clue.” Those are the words of Jim Webb, a lawyer at McAfee & Taft, an old-line Oklahoma City firm...continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on March 23, 2008 (boomark / email).