Building a law firm from the ground up is difficult enough. Doing it while raising young children brings an entirely different set of pressures – and, for two boutique firm founders, some important lessons about ambition, guilt, flexibility, and asking for help.

While family lawyers can do everything in their power to protect their wellbeing, one practitioner has issued a blunt warning: individual resilience cannot fix a culture that is failing lawyers, with deeper change needed across the profession to tackle the issues taking a toll.

Technology has long promised to make the workforce more efficient. But, for lawyers, such efficiency doesn’t necessarily mean getting to leave the officer earlier – a problem that is almost entirely of the profession’s own making, writes Jerome Doraisamy.

Deposit-flicking may look like an attractive shortcut around rising admin costs — but it risks betraying one of our legal systems oldest principles of law: a fiduciary holding someone else's money is there to safeguard it, not to profit from it.