Episode
What Doing Your Best Is Costing You as a Lawyer
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- The Former Lawyer Podcast
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- Apr 6, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 438
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Summary
For a lot of lawyers, hearing "just do your best" as a kid didn't feel reassuring. It felt like a requirement to give every ounce of everything they had until there was literally nothing left. That's not incidental. The kind of person who interprets "do your best" that way is often exactly the kind of person who ends up becoming a lawyer. And that standard follows them. In this episode of The Former Lawyer Podcast, Sarah Cottrell talks about what that standard is actually costing lawyers who ...