Work-Life Balance for the Modern Lawyer
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Work-Life Balance for the Modern Lawyer

There are many self-help articles and books for every profession to assist with work-life balance, a trait which has never been more essential to service professionals like lawyers. In today’s smart-phone society emails are treated more like instant messages requiring immediate responses than the letters of old. In addition, the computer is always on your person, whether driving, at home or at work; while this allows for remote capabilities, it becomes much harder to “switch off”. There are many suggestions on how to improve mental health and achieve work-life balance: get more sleep, exercise, and practice “mindfulness”; but very little in the way of how a lawyer is expected to accomplish this.

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