Workplace bullying affects 1 in 4 lawyers, study finds [View all]

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https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/workplace-bullying-affects-1-4-lawyers-study-finds-2024-10-01/?lctg=642712004898ac6594082278&user_email=835d8ce14101fe205b926beb33ae48037228b98e5baf3dad4fcf68f0f86774c4&utm_campaign=Daily-Docket&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_term=100224

Nearly a quarter of lawyers were victims of workplace bullying within the past year, according to a large-scale survey, opens new tab of Illinois attorneys released Tuesday.

Of the more than 6,000 lawyers surveyed by the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism, 24% said they had recently experienced bullying on the job. That rate was higher among women, racial minorities, LGBTQ+ and younger lawyers.

“Bullying by lawyers is a long-known but little-discussed problem, even though it exists in many practice settings,” reads the report, which the commission billed as one of the first studies of bullying in the legal profession.

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I worked for two male attorneys 1999 to 2002. Both in their mid-50s. I worked as a legal secretary-paralegal even though I too was a certified attorney. (I figured it was a good place to learn "the law business".)

While I did learn a lot, both could be somewhere between surly and obnoxious. Specifically, they got unduly angry and yelled. I ignored it until one day, one lawyer yelled at me for an insignificant mistake -- and then while yelling at me, he hit me hard on the upper arm. It took me overnight to realize I couldn't stay there. I would have had him prosecuted for assault, but he was the former prosecutor for that town. You don't stick around to see if it will happen again.