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You can blame hourly billing incentivizing working more or the law firm promoter model where there is an incentive to squeezing out as many hours as possible out of retainers or you can blame unrealistic client demands.
The only way this can change is if some of the promoters and senior partners see this working less and smarter as a virtue in its own right but the current generation has all been raised on the work hard till you drop mindset unfortunately. This may sound very negative but I have worked in this industry for 10 years and don't see it changing but I would welcome ideas from people on how to begin making such a change.
However, realistically speaking, this is an extremely improbable scenario since money is the only factor that guides everybody's decisions in this industry - whether the clients or the law firms themselves..
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/feb/13/as-kpmgs-boss-has-learned-caring-about-employees-is-now-cool
>The accountancy firm’s UK chair, Bill Michael, who has headed the company since 2017, told staff to “stop moaning” during a virtual meeting about the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. He also called unconscious bias, which many businesses have attempted to confront through changes to their training and recruitment practices, “complete and utter crap”.