Friday, September 12, 2003
High Tuition Debts and Low Pay Drain Public Interest Law:
"Even more than tuition at other schools, the cost of legal education has been soaring in recent years. Experts say the trend threatens a segment of the legal profession that has long depended on lawyers who are willing to give up big salaries for moral satisfaction"
"Even more than tuition at other schools, the cost of legal education has been soaring in recent years. Experts say the trend threatens a segment of the legal profession that has long depended on lawyers who are willing to give up big salaries for moral satisfaction"
Thursday, September 11, 2003
I just discovered an organization dedicated to improving the work/life balance by reducing the hours devoted to work: www.timeday.org
In addition to advocating reduced working hours, they advocate a 4 week statutory holiday. After all, Europeans are accustomed to 5 to 6 weeks of annual holiday.
As part of the campaign, the group has called for Take Back Your Time Day to be marked on October 24. See the website for more info. And consider taking the course offered below:
"Overwork has led to an epidemic of time poverty in the United States. Mandatory overtime is at historic high levels despite the current recession, while millions who want work can't get it. Each year Americans, on average, work 350 hours more than Western Europeans do. We average two weeks vacation; they average six, and last year 26% of us got no paid vacation at all. Even medieval peasants worked less than we do! Time poverty hurts our health, families, communities, civic life and environmentóand even our pets. We can do something about itóat the personal, cultural and political level."
"Take Back Your Time" teleclass facilitated by John DeGraaf, author, organizer and documentary filmmaker
http://www.newstorytel.com/teleclass_world.html#takeback
In addition to advocating reduced working hours, they advocate a 4 week statutory holiday. After all, Europeans are accustomed to 5 to 6 weeks of annual holiday.
As part of the campaign, the group has called for Take Back Your Time Day to be marked on October 24. See the website for more info. And consider taking the course offered below:
"Overwork has led to an epidemic of time poverty in the United States. Mandatory overtime is at historic high levels despite the current recession, while millions who want work can't get it. Each year Americans, on average, work 350 hours more than Western Europeans do. We average two weeks vacation; they average six, and last year 26% of us got no paid vacation at all. Even medieval peasants worked less than we do! Time poverty hurts our health, families, communities, civic life and environmentóand even our pets. We can do something about itóat the personal, cultural and political level."
"Take Back Your Time" teleclass facilitated by John DeGraaf, author, organizer and documentary filmmaker
http://www.newstorytel.com/teleclass_world.html#takeback
Wednesday, September 10, 2003
The ABA publishing division has a new book on gender issues and work-life balance. The web site offers a 30 page sample for reading. At US$44.95, the book is too expensive for me, but maybe some of my readers are rich lawyers.....
Gender on Trial: Sexual Stereotypes and Work/Life Balance in the Legal Workplace - LawCatalog.com
Gender on Trial: Sexual Stereotypes and Work/Life Balance in the Legal Workplace - LawCatalog.com
Tuesday, September 09, 2003
Ottawa Lawyer Susan Lightstone quotes author Gail Sheehy:
"Young adults, she writes, concoct a "false self" to please or impress or dominate others. Then we hit middle age. The effort expended in creating and defending that persona is exhausting," she writes in New Passages. "Once we stop being ruled by the need to prove ourselves to the world and begin to relax our vigilance around maintaining the false self -- what a relief -- we can start stripping back down to what is real, not false or copied, to uncover our own authenticity."
Try to imagine working in a law office while remaining authentic -- it can only be good for you.
Lightstone's article:
"You have a problem with that?"
"Young adults, she writes, concoct a "false self" to please or impress or dominate others. Then we hit middle age. The effort expended in creating and defending that persona is exhausting," she writes in New Passages. "Once we stop being ruled by the need to prove ourselves to the world and begin to relax our vigilance around maintaining the false self -- what a relief -- we can start stripping back down to what is real, not false or copied, to uncover our own authenticity."
Try to imagine working in a law office while remaining authentic -- it can only be good for you.
Lightstone's article:
"You have a problem with that?"
Sunday, September 07, 2003
See this article in the New York TImes about groups formed to work for work-life balance in law firms (primarily composed of women) Lawyers Push to Keep the Office at Bay
