The heat of August is a good time to slow down, kick back in the AC, and think about some bigger picture issues. In my criminal practice things are a little slower with police going on vacation, so less arrests, and judges going on vacation, so fewer hearings. School starts back tomorrow and in a few months the rush of the holidays. But at the moment I am trying to rest a little and contemplate some larger ideas.
There are two unfortunate byproducts of our adversarial legal system - stress and posturing. Unfortunately, litigation by its nature causes stress that all lawyers must deal with. And, again unfortunately, there is a lot of posturing by attorneys that they are immune or unaffected by stress. The reality is we all have stresses in our jobs, no one is immune, and there needs to be a more candid conversation on the topic.
This is an awesome conversation I had with attorney Jason Bangos about stress and lawyering. Despite the fact all lawyers deal/struggle with stress is not something a lot of lawyers will cop to. Jason really lays out, in very raw terms, how a stressful family law case physically manifested in his body and what he did about it. He also talks about managing his calendar as the gateway to managing his stress, playing guitar as a stress reliever, and of course it wouldn’t be a conversation with Jason without a little Gator love at the end.
Speaking of playing guitar, my old band has reunited and we are playing on Saturday in Tampa. This is a bittersweet event. We are so happy to be back playing songs we wrote 25 years ago. Unfortunately, we have had to make this a tribute show as our lead singer, Ofc. Michael Trill, past away last month. We would love to see you there. (We hit the stage about 9 because some of like to be home early these days.)
Here is the facebook event page.
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