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Top 10 wellness stories in 2024
From judges to law students, members of the legal profession have offered advice on managing their wellbeing or shared their experiences with impostor syndrome. Here, we dive into the top 10 most-read wellness stories in 2024.
Lawyers Weekly
10. 50+ hour work week remains all too common for lawyers
Law has always been a vocation that imposes a greater volume of work than the average profession. However, in the current climate, legal employers should take a closer look at the hours their staff are working and invest in technology and flexibility measures to minimise lawyers feeling overlooked.
9. How to manage your wellbeing as a law student
The demands of being a law student are undeniably challenging and often overwhelming, but Cassidy Pole highlights that by prioritising one’s wellbeing, students can effectively navigate this rigorous journey while also finding fulfilment and success along the way.
8. ‘It’s non-negotiable to be well’ as a lawyer
Being a high-performing senior legal counsel, and then being able to successfully lead one’s team, requires a sustainable approach, says one head of legal.
7. Why Gen Z employees want to quit (hint: It’s not just burnout)
Research suggests that, when it comes to pay, Gen Z employees aren’t waiting around for a modest pay rise from their current employers. Instead, they’re taking their skills to the market.
6. If you need laws to combat burnout, ‘you’ve lost the battle’
While legislation has its place, having honest conversations and setting clear expectations is more effective in addressing burnout in law firms, a BigLaw firm head has argued.
5. Challenging impostor syndrome begins at the top, High Court judge says
To overcome the taboo around impostor syndrome, the leaders of the legal profession should be the first to expose their vulnerabilities in the hope this will encourage discussions among young and new practitioners, Justice Jacqueline Gleeson has said.
4. ‘Sometimes you will be wrong’: Magistrate on managing impostor syndrome
After a false start into law and ongoing experience with impostor syndrome, a Victorian magistrate has learnt to manage his wellbeing by accepting it is “perfectly normal” to sometimes be wrong.
3. Judges, magistrates need more support to avoid judicial crisis, Chief Justice says
NSW Supreme Court’s Chief Justice Andrew Bell says judges and magistrates need further support, or the Australian court system will risk following the United Kingdom into a judicial crisis.
2. A judge’s tips on using impostor syndrome for good
Despite being rendered breathless by an early experience on the County Court bench, Judge Frank Gucciardo says that moment of impostor syndrome developed into an important lesson for his role.
1. Supreme Court judge on the biases that shape impostor syndrome
A few days after Justice Mary-Jane Ierodiaconou was appointed to the Supreme Court, the unconscious biases of a senior legal practitioner led to a challenging and emotional moment of impostor syndrome.
