The legal sector has always been one of long working hours, and the constant fight to maintain a good work-life balance is no secret. When your business relies so heavily on responding to client’s needs, it’s inevitably not always easy to work remotely or have flexible start and finish times.

However, the demand for family friendly and flexible working practices in this industry is growing.

We’ve carried out extensive research, in partnership with My Family Care, and compiled a snapshot report outlining our findings into flexible and family friendly working in the Legal Sector, which you can download here.

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Our key findings:

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• Lawyers are less likely to be working flexibly. And in fact, private practice lawyers are even less likely to be working flexibly.
• There’s still a lot of stigma – 35% of lawyers would now feel comfortable talking to their employer about flexible working.
• Only a third of lawyers were made aware of flexible working options before they began their current job.
• Yet 81% of lawyers said that they’d actively look for flexible working options before joining a new company

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Read more about what we found, plus stories from some of the firms leading the way in this area, such as Baker & McKenzie, Ignition Law and Simmons & Simmons, in the full report.