Consulting Lawyers Who Decide to Leave the Stress of Law

Lawyer Career Consulting DC helps lawyers who have despaired of the stress of law practice and have decided to pursue a new career allowing greater balance in life.

Law Practice is Stressful. Lawyer Career Consulting DC can advise you on your next steps, if you are ready to leave the practice of law because of the pressure and stress:

• Long hours and high demands: Work hours in law are often long and highly variable, with high performance expectations, no margin for error, frequent deadlines, and constant pressure.
• Competitive and financial pressures: Lawyers in private practice feel enormous pressure to maintain or increase profitability. Partners worry about sustaining their client base, while associates worry about maintaining their billable hours, building their skills, and earning the respect of partners.
• Shifting business base: Changing economic conditions can erode the business base for certain practice areas, causing many law firms to downsize or readjust their practice groups. Many private practitioners live in constant fear of losing their jobs, and some eventually do.
• Fewer government jobs: Public sector jobs in Washington, D.C. have become increasingly competitive, as lawyers leaving the private sector pursue a limited number of government jobs.
• Political changes: Changing political tides in Washington, D.C., enhance professional opportunities for some lawyers, but diminish opportunities for others, often unexpectedly and very rapidly.
• Loss of idealism and upward mobility: Though motivated originally either by idealism or the prospect of financial success, many lawyers become disillusioned about the mission and function of law itself. Many describe it as "boring" or "meaningless," and not as profitable as they had expected.
• Damage to personal life: Long hours, intense demands, emotional burdens, and the demoralization of law practice drive many successful lawyers to sacrifice their personal lives, causing serious injury to their personal relationships, deep personal regret, and a profound sense of loss. Lawyers experience an unusually high incidence of divorce.

Lawyer Career Consulting DC has almost twenty years of experience advising lawyers who are "burned out," disillusioned, and ready to "cut their losses" professionally by seeking a more balanced and satisfying life outside the law.