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research finds 10% of lawyers plan to quit within a year

  • Written by Vivien Holmes, Emerita Professor, Australian National University
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No one goes into the legal profession thinking it is going to be easy. Long working hours are fairly standard, work is often completed to tight external deadlines, and 24/7 availability to clients is widely understood to be a norm, particularly in commercial and international practice.

But too often, the demands of law...

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