Second busiest year ever for lawyers' charity
LawCare, the charity that helps legal professionals and their families with stress and addiction-related issues, has reported its second busiest year ever.
It opened 515 case files in 2013, more than a third up on the previous year. Three-quarters of the calls were about stress. Reports of bullying at work have risen (from 14% of callers to 19%), while workload (22%), financial problems (17%) and disciplinary issues (16%) were also frequently identified as the cause of the caller’s problems.
40% of the callers were trainees or had been qualified for five years or less. The area of practice yielding the most reports of stress was private client/high street, followed by litigation and commercial.
