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Why are lawyers so miserable?
July 11, 2007 |
Sathnam Sanghera writes for The Times about the juxtaposition of two stories in The Times last week – one reporting that top-flight City lawyers were charging as much as £1,000 an hour for their expertise, another that a quarter of lawyers wanted to leave their profession – raised a pertinent question: just why are those in the legal business so miserable?
The list is long and includes:
- Dehumanising hours.
- The yawning gap between lawyers intelligence and the mind-numbing nature of their work.
- The distance between the ideals of those entering the profession and the reality of the profession.
- The cumulatively lowering nature of the work, becoming competitive, aggressive, judgmental, analytical, adversarial, emotionally detached, paranoid of being sued and, worst of all, pessimistic.
- The vortex of hatred that envelops them entirely.
- The self-inflicted nature of their suffering.
But human misery isn’t relative, and these problems could be solved. All City firms need to do is take a moment or two to look at what JCL Elite is starting to offer and realise that they have new options starting them in the face.
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