How an Overdeveloped Sense of Responsibility Keeps Lawyers Stuck

Podcast: The Former Lawyer Podcast · Sarah Cottrell

Opublikowano: 2026-04-13

Responsibility is one of the things that makes lawyers good at their jobs. It also shows up, over and over, as one of the things that makes it hardest for them to leave. Not because they don't want to go, but because leaving means someone else has to pick up the work. And for a lawyer who is wired around responsibility, that can feel like something they're just not willing to do. What Sarah sees with her clients is that the sense of responsibility doesn't stay proportional. It ends up putting so much weight on what other...