Well here's a point where we agree. As a lawyer myself, I used to work at a firm owned by a local politician where I was one out of two associates. The other associate and I managed 500 files between the two of us. At any given time, we each had 70 cases in litigation. We spent all out time just putting out fires, only working on the cases that were emergencies.
It got to the point where I started looking at the obituaries in the state bar association newsletter. There, I found two different kinds of obits: the ones from lawyers who had long distinguished careers and who died at the age of 92, and the ones who were in big downtown firms, working long hours, who died at the age of 43.
It was soon after then that I went on my own.
Thanks for that post. More confirmation.