Professional services workplaces normally have a high tempo, high stakes, and a competitive environment.
Elwork and Benjamin (1995) described two groups of
interventions—psycholegal interventions and reforms of the legal system—that
aimed to moderate the effects of experienced stress and to decrease the
severity of the consequences. Psycholegal interventions include different forms
of psychological education, trainings, courses in psychology, the development
of interpersonal skills and abilities to communicate efficiently, etc. Reforms
of the legal system are suggested as a possible way to reduce work stress
experienced by lawyers because, as explained earlier, stressors are divided in
two groups and the second one includes stressors that result from aspects and
characteristics of the legal system which a single lawyer has no power to
change or control.