How Lawyers Make for Good Alcoholics
When you watch the end of many law shows on television, whether it is Denny Crane (William Shatner) or James Spader on Boston Legal, or Jack McCoy from Law & Order, they are usually drinking a scotch or some form of liquor and possibly smoking a cigar. This stereotype is very true for lawyers.
You see, drinking is a part of the culture for being an attorney, almost as if it is in the job description, attorneys work long hours, most work around 80 hours a week which is an absurd amount of time. Most lawyers arrive at their office at 8 am and don't leave until 8, 9 or 10 pm. For lawyers just coming out of law school, it is expected of them to put in the long hours as service duty to their firm.
Plus lawyers spend the long hours at work so that ten years down the road they can make partner at the firm and put their name on the company title. Many lawyers are single or divorced and have no reason to go home. Their job becomes their life and it swallows them. By drinking alcohol, it relieves them of their burden at work, of large client cases and files they have to prepare, and their lack of a social life or love life or failed marriage.
In addition, the high paying salary that lawyers receive allows them to freely spend money. Lawyers are able to waste their money on high price liquor and wine and many attorneys have wine cellars and invest in the best of liquor. At many law offices, for New Years parties, Champaign bottles will be given out for lawyers to bring home and drink themselves to sleep or party on the big night. Lawyers also like to have big parties, which showcase their wealth, and it is always good to have a bottle of Jack Daniels around when you need it.
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5 Comments
Post a CommentRepeat after me: Boston Legal is just a TV show.
Again.
One last time.
This post contains both truth and fantasy. I have practiced law for 33 years, and have never (well, almost never) seen a booze bottle sitting out in the open in a lawyer's office. Most lawyers I know are married and devoted to their families. While I work the kind of long hours described, most lawyers don't.
However, alcoholism is a problem in the legal profession. An ABA study reported that 13 percent of lawyers consume 6 or more alcoholic drinks per day. Alcohol abuse seems to go hand in hand with depression and is a pretty good predictor of disciplinary and malpractice complaints.
This article is, as the "lawyer" has already noted, incredibly dumb. Note the lead-in:
"The law profession is very unique as is every profession in the world..."
Putting the bad grammar aside, can something really be 'unique' when it is like everything else?
"Champaign bottles will be given out for lawyers to bring home and drink themselves to sleep or party on the big night."
If you can't spell champagne, maybe you shouldn't be writing these articles. And, oh yeah, the suggestion that that actually happens is absurd.
"Many lawyers are single or divorced and have no reason to go home."
ARE YOU SERIOUS?!
*sigh* Please: stop writing. Just. Stop.
i would drink too if iw as a lawyer
This was probably the dumbest thing I have read in ten years. I have never walked into an attorney's office and seen a bottle of scotch. You've been watching way too much tv douchebag.