To canvass views on mental health, Leah Brown, an outsourced general counsel for fintech businesses, spoke with 18 partners from law firms including: Linklaters, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Kirkland & Ellis, Arnold Porter, White & Case, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, Goodwin Procter, Gibson Dunn, Squire Patton Boggs, Herbert Smith, Hogan Lovells and Farrer & Co. Here, she explains what she found.
Big Law requires partners to sink or swim, a modus operandi diametrically opposed to the Brené Brown era where vulnerability is a marker of true strength. The law firm business model attributes greater value to superstars than team-players.
