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Jean Cumming
Editor-in-Chief
EDITORIAL
Mid-Career Changes
THIS YEAR'S LEXPERT Zenith Awards celebrate "Mid-Career" success. ey include
lawyers who have continued in one firm for their career, and those that have made several
changes. Some readers said we were too generous in our year parameters of mid-career. In
any event, we intended to include a group of lawyers for whom their career is still dynamic.
In researching the term mid-career, it seemed to most oen arise beside the word
"crisis." e Harvard Business Review has an entire series on the theme (https://hbr.
org/2015/05/reading-list-midcareer-crisis series).
Calling the mid-career crisis a "widespread
regularity,"Hannes Schwandt had "good news" to tell in that series: "In the second half of
people's working lives, job satisfaction increases again, in many cases reaching even higher
levels than earlier in the career — essentially forming a U-shaped curve.
"Subsequent research discovered that this age-related U-shape in job satisfaction is part
of a much broader phenomenon. A similar midlife nadir is detectable in measures of peo-
ple's overall life satisfaction and has been found in more than 50 countries. On average,
life satisfaction is high when people are young, then starts to decline in the early 30s, bot-
toming out between the mid-40s and mid-50s before increasing again to levels as high as
during young adulthood."
Presumably, in order to move up the U curve, we all need to make changes of one sort
or another.
fortuna favet fortibus
JUNE 2018
VOLUME 19 NO. 6
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Jean Cumming
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CORRECTION
In the recent "Big Deals" entry, "BCE completes acquisition of AlarmForce Indus-
tries" (Lexpert, May 2018, p. 18), the names of the in-house legal team leads for Bell
and TELUS were inadvertently omitted. is entry is reprinted in this issue, on p. 17.
