For some of us millennial lawyers our careers started with gap years, round the world tickets, festivals and teenage dreams of far off beaches, followed by three years of university, the LPC, perhaps a master’s degree or other higher education and a good amount of volunteer and paralegal work – in the hope of securing the golden ticket to a training contract.
Whilst our priorities back then were to obtain as much experience as possible (an invaluable investment that will serve us throughout our legal careers), our vision board might look slightly different these days. That’s not to say our legal careers are taking a back seat by any means (we might just have different learning objectives) but we might have families that need our care and attention, have dreams of starting up new businesses or taking up high-risk adventure sports, or traveling the globe.
