‘I haven’t seen sunlight in 3 months’: American law firm trainees in London endure 13-hour days for eye-watering six-figure starting salaries

A survey of trainees and junior lawyers at American law firms’ offices in London shows that they spend as much as 13 hours a day at work—roughly twice the average work week in the U.K.

That comes with a lifestyle of Deliveroo dinners and picking up calls at “ungodly hours or on days off,” an anonymous employee told Legal Cheek, a legal news site that surveyed 2,000 workers across London’s various law firms, in November.

“I haven’t seen sunlight in three months,” said another anonymous employee.