The first time I worked through the night was during the secondary banking crisis in the early 1970s. The next was 17 January, 1981, the night before the hostages in the US Embassy in Tehran were released. These were not routine events.
Today, working through the night, even on routine transactions, is commonplace. The pressures on the City solicitor have never been greater. How on earth one combines the demands of one’s profession with ordinary family life, let alone modern expectations of parenthood, I do not know.
