The commenters at WSJ Law Blog identify the usual suspects: pressure to meet
billable hour quotas, stress caused by constant dealings with nasty judges and rude adversaries, inability to cut the golden handcuffs that bind lawyers to high - paying positions, worries about an over-saturated job market and burgeoning student loans and pangs of conscience at defending objectionable clients or having entered the legal
profession for security rather
than having followed one's heart instead.