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Time can work against a lawyer's capability to maintain productive professional and personal lives.
Many lawyers and law students experience time differently than most people do. For those in the legal profession, time is compressed, intense, valued for its capacity to produce, linked inextricably to money or research, and defined by deadlines. This is the experience of time that most of us have most of the time. This way of experiencing time has an important, useful place in our lives. Time is oriented toward the future.