Several months ago CNN ran a story called “Why Are Lawyers Killing Themselves?,” which focused on recent lawyer suicides. Now Washington and Lee University School of Law adjunct professor Brian Clarke is tackling the subject in a two-part series posted on The Faculty Lounge.
Clarke says a number of prominent attorneys have fallen victim to this tragedy. Mark Levy, former chairman of Kilpatrick Stockton’s Supreme Court and appellate litigation practice in Washington, D.C., sat down at his desk on April 30, 2009, activated the “out of office” auto-reply feature on his email account and then shot himself in the head. Levy had just been laid off.
