Spain/Portugal: Crying on the Inside

One in five people working in law firms in Spain and Portugal know of a colleague who has been bullied or sexually harassed, new research shows – it's time for the profession to do more to address this issue

 "I was bullied when I worked at a previous law firm. I was the junior member in a small office abroad and the harasser was the office managing partner. The other people in the office knew what was happening but no one interfered out of fear of retaliation. There was no one I could complain to and, for a whole year, I bore increasing levels of degradation, including comments on my personal life, my personal worth, my professional worth and my lack of professional future unless I delivered myself into the harasser's protection. It came to a point where I seriously considered suicide because it seemed like the least painful way out. When I was sent back to Madrid at the end of the year, I was pretty damaged."