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A female partner at Skadden says: “When a lawyer has done 2,500 billable hours in a year the law firm goes ‘hurrah’.” In many other businesses, she says, “management would be saying hang on, have we got a mental health issue here? Are we distributing the work poorly?

“As long as our profession charges clients and rewards success and gives bonus by reference to chargeable hours [nothing will change],” she adds.