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Notes Chapter One 1. Ann Hagedorn, “Lawyers Have High Rate of Mental Health Woes,” Wall Street Journal, November 30, 1990, B1; David Margolick, “More Lawyers Are Less Happy at Their Work, a Survey Finds,” New York Times, August 17, 1990, B5; Deborah Arron, Running from the Law (1989; reprint, Seattle: Niche Press, 2004). 2. American Bar Association, At the Breaking Point: The Report of a National Conference on the Emerging Crisis in the Quality of Lawyers’ Health and Lives, and Its Impact on Law Firms and Client Services (Chicago: American Bar Association, 1991). 3. Seth Rosner, “A Decade of Professionalism,” Professional Lawyer 9 (August 1995): 2. 4. Amy Stevens, “Why Lawyers Are Depressed, Anxious, Bored Insomniacs,” Wall Street Journal, June 12, 1995, B1. 5. Dick Dahl, “The Trouble with Lawyers,” Boston Globe Magazine, April 14, 1996, 26; Maura Dolan, “Miserable with the Legal Life; More and More Lawyers Hate Their Jobs, Survey Finds,” Los Angeles Times, June 27, 1995, A1. 6. Sol Linowitz (with Martin Mayer), The Betrayed Profession (New York: Scribner, 1994); Walt Bachman, Law v. Life: What Lawyers Are Afraid to Say about the Legal Profession (New York: Four Directions, 1995); Anthony Kronman, The Lost Lawyer: Failing Ideals of the Legal Profession (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993). 7. Sandra Day O’Connor, The Majesty of the Law: Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice (New York: Random House, 2003), 225. 8. W. Dale Nelson, “O’Connor: Lawyers ‘Unhappy Lot’: First Woman Justice Visits University of Wyoming,” Casper (Wyoming) Star-Tribune, March 17, 2004, 1. 9. Stephen Breyer, “The Legal Profession and Public Service,” a speech at the Pierre Hotel in New York City, September 12, 2000, sponsored by the National Legal Center for the Public Interest, available at http://www.supremecourtus.gov/publicinfo/speeches/ speeches.html. 10. Edward Re, “The Causes of Popular Dissatisfaction with the Legal Profession,” St. John’s Law Review 68 (1994): 85, 87–95; American Bar Association, Public Perception of Lawyers: Consumer Research Findings (Chicago: American Bar Association, April 2002) (only 19 percent of consumers expressed confidence in lawyers, as opposed to 50 percent for doctors). The growing unpopularity of lawyers is discussed by Leonard Gross, “The Public Hates Lawyers: Why Should We Care?” Seton Hall Law Review 29 (1999): 1405, 1416 (“A 1993 survey showed a worsening of the images of lawyers since 1986. . . . The public’s opinion of lawyers had declined still further by 1996”). 11. Andrew Benjamin, Elaine Darling, and Bruce Sales, “The Prevalence of Depression, Alcoholism, and Cocaine Abuse among United States Lawyers,” International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 13 (1990): 233. For a discussion of this data, see Larry Krieger, “Healthy, Happy, and Sane: The Road to Professionalism,” Florida State University Law Magazine, Winter 1998, 9–10. 12. Benjamin et al., “The Prevalence of Depression,” 234; Stevens, “Why Lawyers Are Depressed,” B1 (citing a Johns Hopkins study finding that lawyers were more likely to be depressed than members of 104 other professions, while a study from Campbell University found that 11 percent of North Carolina lawyers contemplated suicide at least once a month). 13. Connie Beck, Bruce Sales, and Andrew Benjamin, “Lawyer Distress: AlcoholRelated Problems and Other Psychological Concerns among a Sampling of Practicing Lawyers,” Journal of Law and Health 10 (1995): 1, 49. 14. Kelly Pedone, “Shifting Gears,” Texas Lawyer, April 19, 2004 (reporting that nearly 30 percent of Texas law grads are pursuing nonlegal jobs, and that a survey by the American Bar Association found that 65 percent of attorneys would consider switching jobs within the next two years); “Stress Outweighs Pay as Lawyers Flee Profession,” Chicago Tribune, March 11, 1990, C1 (American Bar Association survey finds that lawyers are reporting increasing stress, alcohol consumption, and dissatisfaction). The late 1980s and early 1990s saw the emergence of books aimed at lawyers who sought to leave the profession, such as Mary Ann Altman, Life After Law (Washington, DC: Wayne Smith, 1991); Mark Byers, Don Samuelson, and Gordon Williamson, Lawyers in Transition (Natick, Mass.: Barkley, 1988). 15. Daphne Eviatar, “Out of Court: Evidence Shows Lawyers Are Leaving the Legal Profession,” Christian Science Monitor, April 17, 2000, 11. For a discussion of lawyers thinking about leaving the profession, see Jill Chanen, “Lawyers Finding Satisfaction in Getting Out or Scaling Down,” Chicago Lawyer, March 1994, 4; Nancy Holt, “Are Longer Hours Here to Stay?” American Bar Association Journal, February 1993, 62. 16. John Sebert, “The Cost and Financing of Legal...