ANALYSIS: Do Lawyers Ever Stop Working?

Lawyers do take days off—but a day off for an attorney doesn’t necessarily mean a day without work, according to a majority of the more than 1,300 attorneys responding to Bloomberg Law’s Workload & Hours Survey. Attorneys reported taking nine days off during the second half of 2023, but over three-quarters of the respondents said that they worked on about half (or more) of their days off.

These responses aren’t surprising—but there are signs of improvement. The percentage of those attorneys who say that they consider this inability to disconnect from work a “challenge” has trended down in the ...