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NLJ this week: Help LawCare change the culture

07 July 2023
Issue: 8032 / Categories: Career Clinic
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LawCare, the charity that supports all those working in the legal field and their families, has expanded over the years to meet the need for mental health, addiction and stress-related help. In this week’s NLJ, LawCare CEO Elizabeth Rimmer explains why it’s time to end the stigma that stops people from speaking out when they are struggling.

The legal profession has long been known for the perfectionism, long hours, and fear of failure within its ranks. But the drawbacks and constraints of such a culture are becoming more widely known.

Rimmer writes: ‘We want to bring our profession together to build a movement to shift legal culture from the stigma that silences people from speaking up when they are struggling and accepts a reactive, time-pressured, crisis-driven, overloaded working day as the norm, to a culture where people flourish, can be themselves, feel valued and respected and do great work for their clients.’ 

Read more from Rimmer here.

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