Starting salaries are £180,000 – but do young lawyers believe the hours, stress and burnout are worth it?

Starting salaries are £180,000 – but do young lawyers believe the hours, stress and burnout are worth it?

Tales of poor mental health are forcing change on the legal profession as recruits fight back against competitive culture, with some even abandoning the long-enshrined ambition to ‘make partner’

When Leah Steele was working as a lawyer she had a gruelling schedule – putting in as many as 50 hours in four days – and often felt anxious.

Matters came to a head in 2014 after she suffered a bereavement. She remembers constantly checking and rechecking letters, and waking up in the early hours troubled about an email she thought she had sent to a client.

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