No one said life in the law was going to be easy, but for some lawyers the practice is taking its toll:
“Brutal work schedules are taking a toll, according to the survey by Legal Week…Eleven percent of the lawyers said long hours are damaging their mental and physical health ‘a great deal’; 30 percent said there is ‘quite a lot of damage’ to health; and 41 percent said there is ‘a little damage’ to health.”
Read: Demanding work schedules are damaging their health, say 82% of surveyed lawyers at the American Bar Association