Labor Day marks the end of summer. It’s also a time to reflect on our relationship with work. Lawyers should do that more often. In that regard, some big law leaders will find false comfort in their 2015 Am Law Midlevel Associates Survey ranking.
In a recent New York Times op-ed, “Rethinking Work,” Barry Schwartz, a professor at Swarthmore College, suggests that the long-held belief that people “work to live” dates to Adam Smith’s statement in “The Wealth of Nations” back in 1776: “It is in the interest of every man to live as much at his ease as he can.”
