The Happy Lawyer: Making a Good Life in the Law
Oxford University Press, USA, 2010

Excerpt: “So, once again, are lawyers happy? Given that most humans are— or say they are—happy, it is not surprising that most of the 1.2 million of us (one of every 250 people in the United States) say we are. Yet it is revealing that lawyers, as a group, are decidedly less happy than members of many other professions. Members of the clergy, travel agents, architects, scientists, engineers, airline pilots, physicians, financial planners, and detectives are all happier than lawyers. Even repair persons, housekeepers, and butlers report higher levels of happiness than do members of the legal profession. … Not all lawyers are miserable, but neither is it a cheery profession.”

Praise: “… it’s a book that anyone who is—or was—or wants to be—a lawyer (or anyone who knows a lawyer) should read. … I’m recommending it to all of my students, and to my friends practicing law, and even to my husband, who prides himself on NOT being a lawyer.” —Naomi Cahn, John Theodore Fey Research Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School