Especially is you are a workaholic type or you deeply believe in what you are doing, there may come a point when you have to stop and think “have I given too much to my job?” For one Boston lawyer, that point should have come the second he heard himself say, (<a href=http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/01/21/dss_to_seek_outside_expertise_in_haleigh_case/?page=2

>according to the Boston Globe), “‘Say whatever you want to say about Jason Strickland, he slowed the process’ and prevented the Oct. 5 court order removing life support from being executed.”

Egan is lawyer to Jason Strickland, who beat 11-year-old Haleigh Poutre (he was husband to her now-dead adoptive mother). Strickland needs Haleigh to stay alive or he faces murder charges. As it so happens the court action did give Haleigh the chance to show she’s fighting for her life, as the state officials whose custody she is in sought to take her off life support. But if I were Jason Strickland’s lawyer and said that, I’d consider a career change, for my own mental health.