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By Krishnan Nair | December 20, 2019
Scandals, stress and soaring salaries: The 15 themes that dominated the news in 2019.
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By Anna Zhang | December 18, 2019
The firm brought in a professional counsellor to help lawyers and staff in Hong Kong deal with stress and manage personal relationships in tense situations during the current political protest movement.
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By Ben Seal | December 11, 2019
In accepting The American Lawyer's Attorney of the Year Award, Litt urged the audience to "change the archaic way we think about mental health." Watch the full video below.
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By Olivia Seet | December 4, 2019
A variety of factors are leading to grim statistics, but one major obstacle to mental health treatment in Asian countries is the cultural attitudes that have persisted for decades.
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By Krishnan Nair | October 24, 2019
The move follows a wave of mental health initiatives by law firms across London.
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By Jonathan Ringel | October 10, 2019
"People around you care about you more than you think," says US lawyer Eric Lang.
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By Leigh Jones | October 4, 2019
As part of our Minds Over Matters project, Law.com reporter Dylan Jackson focuses on how legal professionals, including marketing directors, business developers and law firm administrators, often feel under-appreciated and misunderstood at work.
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By Christopher Niesche | September 11, 2019
In response, some law firms are actively promoting the importance of work-life balance. One firm even tells its young lawyers to leave the office by 6 p.m.
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By Simon Lock | September 10, 2019
The surprisingly high numbers come as three quarters say they feel under pressure to work extended hours, Legal Week's inaugural job satisfaction survey reveals.
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By Jack Newsham | August 28, 2019
What seems like an attractive law firm perk has proven to be a source of frustration for some associates who say they end up taking less vacation time than they normally would.
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By Robin Frazer Clark | October 19, 2022
So we began simply with op-ed pieces like Naveen Ramachandrappa's, getting the word out that there was help through the State Bar's Lawyers Assistance Program (LAP). And we saved lives. Within a week of starting the program, we had at least two Georgia lawyers who let us know that they had been contemplating suicide but simply by reading about our efforts, decided to get help.
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By Charles Toutant | October 14, 2022
"It's a paradigmatic case about how the internet and social media can be abused," Jevremovic's attorney, Neville Johnson of Johnson & Johnson in Beverly Hills, California, said of the suit.
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By Naveen Ramachandrappa | October 14, 2022
For about 10 years, from age 15 to 25, I suffered from (what I now understand to be) persistent depression. The worst of it was a major depressive episode that began shortly after my first year of law school at the University of Georgia and continued through my entire second year of law school. During that severe period, I thought about suicide constantly.
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By Greg Andrews | October 13, 2022
"The work they are doing matters. They are making a difference," HUB International legal and compliance chief John Albright said of in-house attorneys. "You sometimes have to help them better understand the full business impact of their contributions."
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By Phillip Bantz | October 12, 2022
The majority of in-house lawyers in a recent study reported feeling stressed or burned out in their current roles and many planned to leave corporate legal departments altogether.
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By Lori L. Pines | October 10, 2022
Lawyers not only have a duty to clients to attend to well-being, they owe that duty to themselves because no one else has a greater ability to influence his or her own well-being.
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By Joel Cohen | October 7, 2022
Possible mental infirmity is a difficult problem that one needs to address gingerly. Hand wringing ethics opinions don't necessarily tell us exactly the factors we need to consider and the manner in which we should go about it.
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By Amanda Bronstad | October 6, 2022
The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation on Thursday ordered U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to oversee nearly 100 lawsuits brought against Meta Platforms Inc., which operates Facebook and Instagram, and the companies behind Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube.
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By Zack Needles | October 3, 2022
The news and analysis you need to start your day.
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By The Associated Press | September 29, 2022
"(Tuesday) my family endured one of the toughest days in our lives," Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler said in an approximately nine-minute statement to reporters before leaving without taking questions.
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The African Legal Awards recognise exceptional achievement within Africa s legal community during a period of rapid change.
Celebrating achievement, excellence, and innovation in the legal profession in the UK.
The Daily Report is honoring those attorneys and judges who have made a remarkable difference in the legal profession.
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