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Life in the Law 2025

Press release

Act now and lead the way to a sustainable future. LawCare’s new Life in the Law 2025 report highlights the opportunity to build a legal sector that values its people and protects their mental health and wellbeing at work. This is fundamental to the profession’s ability to administer justice and uphold the rule of law.

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Act now and lead the way to a sustainable future.

LawCare’s new Life in the Law 2025 report highlights the opportunity to build a legal sector that values its people and protects their mental health and wellbeing at work. This is fundamental to the profession’s ability to administer justice and uphold the rule of law.

The report sets out practical steps towards a healthier future and shows how, with strong leadership and decisive action, wellbeing can be embedded into everyday legal practice.

From January to March 2025, LawCare surveyed individuals and organisations across the sector about how working in law is affecting mental health and wellbeing. The findings confirm both the scale of the challenge and the urgency for action:

Report recommendations

Without decisive action from leaders, the sector risks losing people, declining mental health, and a loss of public trust and confidence.

The report highlights the evidence-based steps that can improve working practices in legal workplaces to better protect mental health and wellbeing:

We have it in our hands to transform the way we work and build a future where people are supported to perform at their best and build sustainable careers. The path to prioritising mental health and wellbeing before us is clear. Now is the time for leaders to act with courage: move away from practices that normalise overwork, which risk driving people out of the sector, and take the path to a better future by valuing people management.

– Elizabeth Rimmer, CEO of LawCare

A call to the whole sector

LawCare calls on every firm, every chambers, every in-house team, every courtroom, every professional body, every regulator, every educational organisation, every insurer, every individual and every leader to step up and take action to create a sustainable sector – one that inspires trust, is progressive, and above all, values its people as its greatest strength.

In 2026 LawCare will start a programme of engagement to develop resources and training to support leaders and organisations to put these recommendations into practice.

Find out more by joining LawCare’s Let’s talk about Life in the Law 2025 webinar on Wednesday 12 November, 12 to 1pm. Sign up here.
 

Additional information

Here’s a link to the Life in the Law 2025 press release that was shared on 1 October 2025.

Social media images

Please share about Life in the Law 2025 on social media. Here is a link to LawCare’s LinkedIn post about the launch of the report on 1 October 2025.

We’d love for you to share your own posts about the report. To make it easier, here are some images you can use: