A survey of trainees and junior lawyers at American law firms’ offices in London shows that they spend as much as 13 hours a day at work—roughly twice the average work week in the U.K.
That comes with a lifestyle of Deliveroo dinners and picking up calls at “ungodly hours or on days off,” an anonymous employee told Legal Cheek, a legal news site that surveyed 2,000 workers across London’s various law firms.
