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Legal Tech's Revolution is Exacerbating Mental Health Issues. How Can We Fix the Problem?

While legal technology’s thousand-mile-an-hour expansion has opened theoretical opportunities for lawyers flex their creativity, the cultural change is still missing.

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Anyone who has watched the TV show Suits will likely remember dozens of legal associates trawling through reams of documents, all in the same cramped room, late into the night. As archaic as those scenes now look, we know this often happened during a typical associate’s legal career.

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