Lawyers get a thrill from a fight. And Noam Cohen and Hannah Genton, founding partners of transactional law firm CGL, are taking on a major opponent: cultural expectations that lawyers must burn themselves out in exchange for high salaries and big bonuses.

CGL is a distributed law firm, meaning that its attorneys work wherever they want and on their own schedules. As long as they give clients exceptional service, they’re in charge of their own hours and where they spend them.

In this episode of Defining Moments, Noam and Hannah explain why so many lawyers burn out under the traditional “BigLaw” model, how shunning a centralized office empowers them to offer competitive rates and why happy attorneys have better relationships with their clients.