Are our famously workaholic US legal colleagues getting a taste for work-life balance? Obiter was struck this week by a resolution proposed by the Young Lawyers Division of the American Bar Association at the association’s mid-year meeting. Resolution 505 ‘encourages all legal employers to provide attorneys with at least one consecutive week of fully uninterrupted time per year during which they are relieved of work-related communications and responsibilities and to provide billable hours or paid time-off credit for employees’. We *think* that is in addition to an annual holiday, but with some US firms it’s hard to be sure.
On other matters, the association approved a motion by the New York City Bar urging the US Supreme Court to modify the ethics code it adopted in 2023 so it is ‘as strict as the code of conduct for United States judges’. Good luck with that.
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