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Thursday, May 21, 2026

Drowning in Work, In-House Lawyers Looking for Exit Hatch ... - Law.com

What You Need to Know

  • The on-demand legal services provider Axiom released a survey of more than 300 U.S. in-house attorneys.
  • It found that 61% were very stressed or burned out, up from 47% in the same survey a year ago.
  • 21% of respondents said they're actively looking for a new job, up from 14% a year ago.

A study of U.S. in-house counsel released one year ago was startling in the bleakness of its findings: It found that 47% of respondents were very stressed or burned out.

The sequel to that survey, released Thursday by on-demand legal services provider Axiom and Wakefield Research, was even more startling because it was even bleaker. It found that percentage had shot of to 61%.

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