The past few weeks, I have spent a tremendous amount of time in the office. Today is my 17th consecutive day in the office and I have had 6 hours of sleep in the past 58 hours. My mental acuity is suffering pretty badly and, as one would expect, my work product is suffering. And this situation is not unique. I have worked like this many, many times over the past few years.
I still do not really understand how law firms can be set up to expect and reward this pattern of working. Granted, I think that my case is not typical as I work in a particularly busy field in a particularly busy market. But it just does not make sense to drive people hard enough that they start doing a bad job, start getting unhealthy, start resenting the job they do.
What a bass-ackwards way of running a business....
