The workload signal is now measurable enough to manage

LawCare found that 78.7% of legal professionals worked beyond contracted hours, while only 54.6% of people managers had received people-management training and just 31.3% had targets or billable-hour expectations adjusted for that management load. The practical governance question for legal employers is whether leadership time is being priced, measured and protected, or simply layered on top of fee-earning pressure.