35% of NZ lawyers with moderate to severe distress in survey

New Zealand lawyers are apparently among the unhappiest in the world . The University of Melbourne surveyed 800 New Zealand based lawyers and law students between 2021 and 2023. It found almost 35 percent of them reported moderate to severe psychological distress.A quarter of those experiencing distress described it as severe or extremely severe. The research was comissioned by the Life Squared Trust, its spokesperson and psychologist Jacki McGuire spoke to Lisa Owen.