Australian lawyers have had the right to refuse work or client communications outside of office hours since Monday, and while that may not lead to a strict 5 p.m. cutoff, observers believe it could ...

Our friends at The American Lawyer went live with their annual Pro Bono Scorecard last week, and it included some somewhat encouraging news. The 120 firms who participated tallied 5.15 million total ...

Aug 1 (Reuters) - Legal employers should encourage their employees to fully unplug from work for a minimum of one week a year to reduce burnout and improve well-being, according to an American Bar ...

"It's really about trying to bring back some work-life balance and make sure that people aren't racking up hours of unpaid overtime," said a local politician Getty Australian workers can now (legally) ...

Australia's new 'right to disconnect' law is letting workers to ignore after-hours calls. The law, passed earlier this year, went into effect this week. France and other countries have passed similar ...

First-years at Ropes & Gray can now spend a fifth of their required billable hours exploring AI Plaintiffs' firm wins lead counsel bid after fight over press releases Objectors miss chance to ...

For decades, law firm financial models have been built on a simple premise: people doing lots of work. The industry has functioned on the billable hour, where time is directly equated with money. It ...