Over time, lawyers will consume thousands upon thousands of pages of text. They will devour hundreds of articles, thousands of cases, and a baffling array of sections, headings, letters, emails and papers.
So I can understand that the last thing many lawyers want to do some days when they get home is to read more.
I get it.
You’ve been reading all day, or all week. You’d rather give your eyes a rest and turn on the television or watch some cats doing funny things on YouTube.
But I propose to make the case for you to resist the temptation of those evil YouTube cats. Rather, I want to develop the proposition that you should be reading more, not less. Specifically I want to encourage you to read both widely, and deeply. I’m primarily talking here about non-fiction, although I’m obviously not against fiction forming part of your recreational reading.