A couple of years ago, international human rights lawyer Caoilfhionn Gallagher decided to undertake a life and career audit. “It was a bit of a midlife crisis in some ways,” she smiles, over a Saturday morning breakfast of pancakes and tea in Dublin’s Shelbourne Hotel. “I decided to Marie Kondo my life”.
Emulating Japanese organisation guru Kondo saw Gallagher do a stock take of her career. She realised she was stretched too thin, that there were other barristers who could take over her cases. Kondo famously advocates getting rid of anything that doesn’t “spark joy”. “I’d been practising at the bar in England and Wales for a really long time and I loved my work…