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According to the Law Society figures for 2014 there are about 130,000 practising solicitors (with practising certificates) and the Bar Council in 2014 says there are about 15,700 practising barristers. It appears the report states that 10% of all time would be 26m hours, therefore 145,000 lawyers work in total 260m hours, or just under 1,800 hours each. I wonder where the figures came from, and if an assumption is that the 1,800 hours is the total of an individual lawyer's work time? 1,800 hours is just under 8 hours daily, if you never work weekends or bank holidays, and take 23 days' holiday a year (without any work interruptions. I've never met a lawyer with that work pattern, certainly not since the internet and Blackberries/smartphones.