If you do nothing else today, read this Report.

Because this is so wrong on so may levels and it needs to be fixed – now!

“Lawyers who were highly “overcommitted” to their work—characterized by researchers as an all-encompassing level of devotion, a sentiment reflected in recent American Lawyer surveys of partners and associates—were more than twice as likely to consider suicide than those who maintained boundaries with their work.”Lawyers who were highly “overcommitted” to their work—characterized by researchers as an all-encompassing level of devotion, a sentiment reflected in recent American Lawyer surveys of partners and associates—were more than twice as likely to consider suicide than those who maintained boundaries with their work.”

Lawyers Who Are Highly Stressed Are 22 Times More Likely To Consider Suicide‘ by Staci Zaretsky on Above The Law

Make sure you learn to maintain boundaries at work everyone!

As usual comments are my own.

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One employee retention strategy for law firms to consider: Kill the billable hour!

Any law firm looking for innovative, ‘out-of-the-box’ ways to retain their lawyers during this period now known as The Great Resignation could do a lot worse than take onboard a Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath midlevel associate’s comments on the billable hour in the recently published American Lawyer’s 2022 Midlevel Associate Survey:

The billable hour is a cancer that will slowly eat away at you if you don’t get away from it quickly enough.

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Just a thought…