Indexed knows how it is

15Feb07

Jessica Hagy always makes me laugh, but this one made me sigh because it’s the basis and failing of all legal billing:
http://indexed.blogspot.com/2007/02/efficiency-cheap-apartment.html

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Back Again

09Feb07

I had a not-rotten couple of weeks — my new meds are working — but I’m back in a funk. I’m having terrible eye-strain headaches from 12-hour days at the computer. Stress kept me from sleeping for three straight days, which actually made me bill GREAT hours because I was way too tired to think [...]

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If Only It Was All a Bad Dream

16Jan07

Last night I had what I think was my first law nightmare. I was trying to practice law in Britain and I wasn’t licensed as a barrister or solicitor — I can never remember which is which — and for some reason my cat was at the courthouse and my apple tree was growing pumpkin-sized [...]

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Pro Bono

15Jan07

I think the local pro bono coordinator is out to get me. We have a central clearinghouse for cases that LSC can’t take that get farmed out to lawyers willing to do pro-bono. The coordinator is a really nice woman, but I swear to God, I keep getting the most obnoxious cases. The ones that [...]

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Sure, It Has a Window

12Jan07

One of the things I hate most about the “workplace” aspects of my job (the parts that aren’t confined to being a lawyer, but just the part where you have to go work somewhere) is sitting in my little white-walled box with a window.
So cubicles are worse. I worked in cubicles and hated it — [...]

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I’m a Lawyer. I’m Depressed.

04Jan07

That’s really all you need to know here. I’m not talking bummed about life, I’m talking big honkin’ major clinical depression requiring daily medication to keep me a functional member of the human race.
This is not actually the law’s fault. They say that 1/3 of lawyers are depressed or having problems with addiction, mostly because [...]

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