The Legal Profession Has A Mental Health Problem
by Neil Graffin, Emma Jones, Mathijs Lucassen and Rajvinder Samra
by Neil Graffin, Emma Jones, Mathijs Lucassen and Rajvinder Samra
GBV 2019-05-16Set in a fictional firm in New York, the TV series Suits glamorises the life of lawyers working in a modern corporate firm. One of the main characters, Harvey Specter, dresses impeccably in an expensive designer suit and expects others around him to do the same. The lawyers in the firm are hugely ambitious, work late into the night (we rarely see them away from the office) and demand excellence in everything they do. For these professionals, work is life. This is, we are led to believe, what a lawyer’s life could be like.
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