Boundaries in the legal profession are strange things. We talk about them often, yet they’re rarely taught, and even more rarely practiced with intention. Most of us learn them the hard way—through exhaustion, resentment, or that slow internal drift where the work begins to swallow entire pieces of your life. And, then, of course, burnout….
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The stoic lawyer: how Stoicism keeps me going
Legal practice is so often framed around competence, precision, and technical mastery—but anyone who has actually lived this work knows that the emotional terrain is just as demanding. The emails that land too late, the conversations that turn sharper than expected, the weight of other people’s crises sitting in your inbox. Ooh golly, that can…