So, Read understands the pressures of balancing work and family, and making sure that work time feels valuable.
“It’s important to young lawyers to have a positive outlook on their work and work environment, to understand why
they’re doing what they’re doing, how it fits into the bigger picture, and how it’s meaningful.”
Technology and alternative workplaces – working remotely – figure much more prominently in legal practice
today. “It creates important opportunity, but it also creates challenges,” says Read. Lawyers working remotely are “less
connected to the institution and to their colleagues, which means we have to work harder to make that connection.”
Remember, says Read, this is also a generation that wants contextual meaning in work; fostering connection and
meaning are a much bigger challenge when employees and attorneys may be separated for days and sometimes
weeks on end.
“Like any business, though, new challenges come up over time and your job is to find ways to master those
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challenges and make it work,” says Read.
That’s what CEOs do, after all. SL
“Like any business…
new challenges come up
over time and your job
is to find ways to master
those challenges and
make it work.”
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