NY Bar report: A ‘Balanced Life’ Is Increasingly Rare for Lawyers
The committee’s report, adopted unanimously by the Bar’s House of Delegates on Saturday, concluded that being an attorney is an ever-more demanding profession in which practitioners are finding less time for families or for the citizenship activities that have been the traditional obligation of lawyers.
The committee worked for nearly three years on the report, which was based in part on nine invitation-only forums around the state.