Episode
Leaving the Law When You’re Already Burned Out
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- The Former Lawyer Podcast
- Published
- Jun 15, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 735
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Summary
Leaving the law when you’re already burned out can feel impossible, because the job you need energy to escape is the same job draining all of your energy. You may understand that you need to figure out what comes next, but when you are scraping by energetically, even one more task can feel like too much. That is where a lot of burned out lawyers get stuck. They assume that if they do not have hours and hours each week, whole weekends, or a huge amount of bandwidth to put toward leaving the la...