“I’ve never seen sunlight in three months”: trainees at an American law firm in London endure 13 hours of 13 days for an eye-opening six-figure departure
An investigation of trainees and junior lawyers at the office of an American law firm in London shows that they spend 13 hours a day at work.
Anonymous employees come with a rescue dinner lifestyle at “impossible hours or holidays” with “impossible hours or holidays”. He told Legal Cheeka legal news site that surveyed 2,000 workers at various London law firms in November.
“I’ve never seen sunlight in three months,” another anonymous employee said.
Yet another participant said that while the holidays were respected, they were always expected to answer work calls.
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It has a trap of a toxic work culture that people try to avoid, but working long hours at a law firm comes with handsome wages. Top companies have an starting salary of over £170,000. Almost 5 times Median UK income for 2023.
Something like Kirkland, Ellis and Paul Hastings, a US law firm that practices in London, pay £172,000 and demand an average of 12-13 hours a day. The era It has been reported. In contrast, UK companies outperform their salaries by £150,000 while averaged slightly shorter employees.
Certainly not every company in the industry has a cruelly long time in exchange for six-figure pay. Some of the companies listed in the survey by Regal Cheek limits work days to around nine hours for newly qualified lawyers.
Still, it’s far from there average In the UK, you work in the UK for 36.6 or 7.3 hours a day.
Claimable Time is a metric method that is often used to measure an attorney’s performance. In some cases, those times will be checked in 2,000 per year. The US demands more time on average compared to the UK.
However, the model is controversial amidst the pressures and demands of cost for more transparent systems. The lawyers also argue that there may be a more efficient way to do the same job without a billable time structure to determine salary. When AI appears in public consciousness, legal professions are already The beginning Change it.
At the top level, at least, it has not reached employment momentum. The top London law firm hired partners at record speeds in 2024, driven by the appetites of American law firms to compete for talent in the UK capital.
Some of the fresh talent appeals at US-based companies are swingable higher than those in the UK. The most respected law firms are rethinking their partner pay structure in response to growing competition.
“The impact of greedy New Yorkers on the highest level of London’s legal services market over such a short period of time has been severe.” Report Employment company Edward Gibson said in July.
This story version was originally released Fortune.com November 5th, 2024.
This story was originally introduced Fortune.com