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By - Jul 21, 2026 7:00 am AEST The rise of email, instant messaging and the smartphone has made sustained concentration harder to come by than ever. That is a problem for every kind of work, but it is a particular risk for lawyers, whose job depends almost entirely on the deep, uninterrupted attention the modern office is designed to break up. The modern working day is full of interruptions.

By - Jul 14, 2026 3:00 pm AEST Early career lawyers are expected to know exactly where they are headed, often long before they have done enough to know. The certainty the profession asks for is largely a performance, and it matters far less than it seems. The night before her first law class, Amy Farrugia rang her mother-in-law in a panic. She was convinced someone would make her stand up in front of everyone and recite a law, and that she would have nothing to say.