In-House Leaders Face a Team of Dissatisfied, Burned-Out Lawyers

Lawyers burned out and dissatisfied by a lack of resources sufficient to carry out their jobs are increasingly looking for new employment, putting a strain on already overburdened in-house counsel, according to a survey published Thursday.

Nine out of 10 in-house lawyers are dissatisfied with their current job and a majority are “extremely stressed and burned out,” according to a survey of 300 in-house counsel by alternative legal service provider Axiom. Higher levels of dissatisfaction sit at the mid-level and junior levels of legal departments.

“Legal departments are facing the perfect storm of increasing work, decreasing staff, and limited ...