Dan Bowling, who holds faculty appointments at Duke Law School and the University of Pennsylvania’s graduate program in positive psychology, returns as our guest blogger.
Lawyers are often thought of as a miserable lot: depressed, anxious, bitter and frequently alcoholic. Whether this is true or overstated is a matter of debate. But the view that lawyers are unhappy is ubiquitous, and there’s now a growing scholarship devoted to lawyer well-being. And if the nascent literature has a canon, Nancy Levit and Doug Linder’s 2011 The Happy Lawyer—a straightforward look at the psychological and social issues plaguing lawyers—has a prominent place in it.
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