When asked what law firms could do to improve mental health and prompt their lawyers to stick around, attorneys at all levels want reduced workloads. Their work is interesting and often rewarding—according to associate, partner and counsel responses to recent American Lawyer surveys—but a crushing workload with no opportunity to unplug often overshadows many lawyers’ personal lives and aspirations outside of the law.

Granted, U.S. law firms do offer reduced hours tracks, typically for lawyers with caregiving responsibilities or other personal circumstances. Some firms extend the offerings to all associates or all attorneys, including Fish & Richardson, Mayer Brown, and O’Melveny & Myers.