Practice Blawg » LCL http://practiceblawg.com Wed, 16 May 2012 14:26:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Owning Up to Depression http://practiceblawg.com/2009/11/owning-up-to-depression/ http://practiceblawg.com/2009/11/owning-up-to-depression/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:34:32 +0000 Nancy Hupp http://practiceblawg.com/?p=678 This month’s ABA Journal cover story “A Death in the Office” chronicles the life and death of Mark Levy, a prominent and talented appellate lawyer who killed himself after the Washington law firm of Kilpatrick Stockton terminated his employment in a cost-cutting move.

The article and readers’ online comments travel a well-worn path with an oft-repeated but largely irrelevant question: who’s to blame? Levy? The firm? The article suggests Levy was invested in his work, had few outside interests, and was of a generation whose self worth is tied up with work status. It suggested that the firm could have done more to ease its cost-cutting move, perhaps offer Levy an office to use while he searched for a new job.(...)
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