title: Why do We do That?: Commentary on lawyers and the law
author:  Roberta M. Gubbins 
description: Roberta M. Gubbins is a writer and a lawyer. After practicing law for a number of years, she traded her briefcase for a laptop and took up the world of letters. Now she helps lawyers and law firms with their marketing writing needs, ghostwriting blog posts, newsletter articles, biographies, case studies, or web content. She is also the editor of Briefs, Ingham County Bar Association e-newsletter and The Mentor, e-newsletter of the State Bar of Michigan Master Lawyers Section. She publishes cozy mystery fiction under the pen name Alexandra Hawthorne. Roberta lives in Mason, Michigan with two aloof cats, one Bichon with an attitude, assorted fish and a treading water mortgage. She can be reached at roberta@robertamgubbins.com
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  CHILLI DOG PUBLISHING
  
  
  Front cover by Miss
  
  
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  Copyright 2015 Chillidog
  
  
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  ## FROM THE AUTHOR
  
  
    
  
  
  This is fundamentally a book about a lawyer. And
  
  
  it’s dedicated to all the lawyers out there who wake up in the
  
  
  morning and want nothing more than to stay in bed and not go to
  
  
  work. Because being a lawyer in a top London law firm is actually
  
  
  one of the most depressing jobs known to man.
  
  
    
  
  
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  why hasn’t a lawyer spilt the beans on the legal profession before?
  
  
  Because they’ve never had the fucking time.
  
  
  You try working a 15-hour day, seven days a week and then see if
  
  
  you’ve got time to write a book about how shitty your life
  
  
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  But I did find the time. N