{"id":119345,"date":"2025-05-16T13:02:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T21:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/16\/gen-z-lawyers-law-students-may-be-suffering-more-within-the-legal-profession\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T13:02:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T21:02:50","slug":"gen-z-lawyers-law-students-may-be-suffering-more-within-the-legal-profession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/16\/gen-z-lawyers-law-students-may-be-suffering-more-within-the-legal-profession\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen Z Lawyers, Law Students May Be \u2018Suffering More\u2019 Within The Legal Profession"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

[T]he population of individuals who are going to be the majority of the profession in a few years, just have worse mental health, and they have more needs, different expectations and certainly different attitudes as well. The world has changed. The profession has changed. The people in the profession have changed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Patrick Krill<\/a>, founder of Krill Strategies, who is an attorney and a licensed and board-certified alcohol and drug counselor, in comments given on the State Bar of Michigan\u2019s On Balance\u00a0podcast<\/a>. As noted by Law.com<\/a>, the differences within the legal profession between Gen Z and Millennials versus Gen X and Baby Boomers are \u201cpretty stark.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Gen Z Lawyers, Law Students May Be \u2018Suffering More\u2019 Within The Legal Profession<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

[T]he population of individuals who are going to be the majority of the profession in a few years, just have worse mental health, and they have more needs, different expectations and certainly different attitudes as well. The world has changed. The profession has changed. The people in the profession have changed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Patrick Krill<\/a>, founder of Krill Strategies, who is an attorney and a licensed and board-certified alcohol and drug counselor, in comments given on the State Bar of Michigan\u2019s On Balance\u00a0podcast<\/a>. As noted by Law.com<\/a>, the differences within the legal profession between Gen Z and Millennials versus Gen X and Baby Boomers are \u201cpretty stark.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. [T]he population of individuals who are going to be the majority of the profession in a few years, just have worse mental health, and they have more needs, different expectations and certainly different attitudes as well. The world has changed. The profession has changed. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":119307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Staci-Zaretsky-3J7wok.jpeg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}