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1074 ABA Journal Lawyer Wellness articles.

Iraq Dealmeister’s Thoughts on Law, Life

After helping to put together a $1.25 billion deal for a national mobile telecommunications license in Iraq earlier this year, attorney Abdullah Mutawi, who heads the international telecommunications group at Trowers & Hamlins, took a few minutes to reflect on his life and practice. One of his best experiences, he…

Sep 10, 2007 11:39 PM CDT

Big Firms Join Attorney Retention Project

At least 23 well-known law firms are opting into a new membership program offered by the Project for Attorney Retention. An initiative of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law, the project promotes work-life balance and the advancement of women in the…

Sep 6, 2007 6:51 PM CDT

Firm Survives 9/11 Attack, But Changes

It takes a lot today to create a crisis at Harris Beach. Its law offices at 2 World Trade Center were obliterated on Sept. 11, 2001, killing three lawyers, two staff members and a contractor supervising an almost-completed $4 million renovation project. Now, many among the more than 100 who…

Sep 5, 2007 6:16 PM CDT

Rising From The Rubble

In the aftermath of 9/11, lawyers at New York’s Harris Beach don’t practice law the same way they once did

Sep 1, 2007 8:30 AM CDT

Law Firm Benefit: $4 Back-Up Child Care

One of the biggest personal issues faced by attorneys and other law firm employees is emergencies that require them to stay at home with their children or other family members. “You really need a safety net for all purposes,” says Marcy Greer, a partner at Fulbright & Jaworski’s office in…

Aug 23, 2007 5:53 PM CDT

Facebook Costs, Benefits Firms

Employees surfing the Internet at work are nothing new. But Facebook is particularly tempting, a recent study finds, because the social networking site is so addictive. Workers checking their Facebook profile pages and seeing what’s happening in real-time in online social networks account for billions of dollars worth of lost…

Aug 21, 2007 8:23 PM CDT

Working Mother Lists Top 50 Law Firms

A new player has just entered the law-firm rankings game. Working Mother magazine, in an issue that arrived on newsstands today, has listed 50 law firms that it considers particularly attuned to the concerns of its readers. “In this, our inaugural Working Mother & Flex-Time Lawyers Best Law Firms for…

Aug 14, 2007 3:30 PM CDT

Alec Scott, Esq: ‘Why I Escaped the Law’

It isn’t just many American lawyers who feel overworked and dispirited. Their Canadian counterparts increasingly feel the same way, according to an article in next month’s issue of Toronto Life magazine. Author Alec Scott, a lawyer who is now a journalist, says that getting fired from a big Toronto firm…

Aug 13, 2007 11:09 PM CDT

The Ultimate Question

A courthouse conversation brings a lawyer’s purpose into sharper focus

Aug 1, 2007 12:50 PM CDT

Speed Trials

This marathon hopeful learns how to go the distance, quickly and safely

Aug 1, 2007 12:11 PM CDT

Punching the Clock

Firms crack down on start times, but is it a “generational” thing?

Aug 1, 2007 8:48 AM CDT

“So, this lawyer walks into a bar ...”

Days before Cassandra E. Hooks was to sit for the California bar exam, her 4-year-old son was hospitalized with a bacterial infection.

Aug 1, 2007 8:30 AM CDT

Virtual Offices in Real Space

Many solos opt for companies that offer all the trimmings

Aug 1, 2007 8:22 AM CDT

Bar Exam Film Ups Ante for 6 Law Grads

It’s hard enough just studying for the bar exam. But six California law graduates decided to up the ante even further by doing so in the public eye. Responding to a 2006 request by documentary filmmakers, they agreed to allow video footage of everything from crying jags and the struggle…

Jul 26, 2007 6:24 PM CDT

Cost to See Kids: $2.5 M or More in NYC

Why would a family pay nearly $2.5 million to buy a needs-work apartment in New York City when they could live in a larger, nicer, single-family home with a yard in the suburbs? Because it gives dad–or, sometimes, mom or both parents–a chance to see the kids. A rapidly increasing…

Jul 25, 2007 12:04 AM CDT

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