Source: ABA Journal Top Stories
Positive psychology expert and lawyer Dan Bowling has a hypothesis: Happiness among law students can’t be explained by who will graduate with a high-paying job or who will earn a degree without a mountain of debt. Indeed, Bowling says, a lot of evidence suggests that the least happy lawyers are associates in big law firms making a lot of money, although there’s no “gold standard” study of the issue. Bowling believes that the law students with the best sense of well-being understand their own personalities and character strengths and pursue careers that will tap those strengths. He’ll get a chance…
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Aiming for BigLaw? You May Want a Different Target, Happiness Researcher Says
June 30, 2010 Leave a Comment
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