Open Letter From Dentons Partner: Mental Health Crisis Requires Rethinking Firm Business Models
Jana Cohen Barbe argues the industry needs to revamp the billable hour structure, change the performance metrics it tracks and look at compensation in a different way.
July 31, 2019 at 03:55 PM
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Dear Friends and Colleagues,
The consensus is that there is a mental health crisis in the legal profession. That is no doubt true. High-profile suicides, admissions of substance abuse and addiction, and wholesale exits from the profession plague and torture all of us who still hold onto the view that ours is a noble and worthwhile vocation. And we have responded by hiring wellness coaches, retaining therapists, hosting programs on resiliency and teaching meditation techniques. All of these measures are worthwhile and important and constructive. But they also fall short, treating the symptoms but not the cause.
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