Which Side Are You On? Confronting the Agonies of Lawyering

Tim CE
Tim CE
Nov 7 · 4 min read
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For many of us, the irrepressible agonies of lawyering have interrupted our sleep. More than the lifestyle concerns — despairingly long hours, substance dependency, suicide — we already feel the weight of the impending threat of stagnation, the sense that transformation is foreclosed, that our future lawyering was never ours to begin with. The off-the-shelf remedy for aspiring lawyers is…

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Tim CE

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Clinical, not cynical.

Idle Thoughts

The idleness of thought entails the capacity to intervene — carefully, incisively, even forcefully — without being beholden to the interests of the institutions that impose themselves on us.

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