When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, it took the world by surprise and turned many industries, including the legal sector, upside down. At first, employment losses were seen as just one of the many disruptions brought on by the pandemic. However, as the pandemic reaches the two-and-a-half-year mark, people are leaving their jobs at higher and higher rates – four million workers quit their jobs in July 2020 – leading to what experts call the Great Resignation.
Despite a strong labor demand, low unemployment rates, and the availability of vaccinations to ease the severity of the coronavirus pandemic, workers began to leave their jobs in droves in the spring of 2021, perhaps because they accepted a better job elsewhere, could not find childcare, or decided to start their own business. Some have suggested that they left their positions for other reasons tied to COVID-19: the crisis led some employees to reevaluate life priorities, or their employers demanded that they return to the office after allowing them to work remotely in 2020.
But whatever the reason it began, the Great Resignation appears to be far from over. A record 4.5 million workers left their jobs for reasons other than retirement in March 2022, an increase of 152,000 from the month before. Yet, ironically, there were 11.55 million job openings at the end of March 2022, the highest on record.
The legal industry has been especially hard hit with resignations. When lawyers began to work...
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