Oliver Haddock
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 3 Jul
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And I know that so many are, you know, that that's obviously a very extreme example, but I know so many people that are going through, whether it's burnout, whatever it might be, that are stepping back
Back from the industry, brilliant minds, talented minds are stepping back from the industry because it's a difficult way of earning a living.
The stresses are unique, that unlike any other industry, you know, the the conversations that I overhear juniors having about will I get struck off?
Will I get struck off?
You know, oh my god, I missed this or I forgot this.
Um and you know, then they're kept up all night because they forgot to send an email, have they missed a deadline?
All those sorts of things.
They are pressures that I genuinely don't believe that any other industry.
faces.
So I suppose in a in a perfect world perhaps uh incoming innovation could relieve stresses, could make life work-life balance slightly easier for people.
Today?
The obvious answer is that we might need fewer individual human rights.
And I don't want to get into the you know computers to come in for our job spirit, but that that probably will be the case to some extent.
Yeah.
The other point is that a law firm will look very different.
Um and those two points are obviously related.
Um at Waitman's we are real market leaders um in the innovation space.
It's a it's amazing, you know.
We are a top forty law firm at the moment very
Much uh aspirations to be a top 30 law firm, and perhaps at some of the big, big, big legal conferences, there might not be names and faces from Waitemans on those panels.
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