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Jul 2021
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Law Life Balance: Prioritising Mental We...

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Send us a text This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, our host Robert Hanna welcomes Caitlin McFee onto the show. Caitlin is a Pro Bono Associate and the Founder of Law Life Balance, a mental health and wellbeing platform for lawyers. After facing her own struggles whilst doing her training contract at a Magic Circle firm, she set up the project to d ... Show More
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