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Legal Professionals Were Already Struggling With Stress and Isolation, and the Pandemic Has Made Things Much Worse
Reports of anxiety and depression rose notably in this year's ALM 2021 Mental Health and Substance Abuse Survey as lawyers and staff feel isolated and overworked.
May 03, 2021 at 06:00 PM
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The original version of this story was published on The American Lawyer
Lawyers are feeling more isolated, burnt out and depressed than ever, even as law firms rolled out new programs and made efforts to over-communicate throughout the last year.
Many attorneys and law firm staff struggled with depression and substance abuse long before the pandemic, and conversation in the last few years has increasingly turned toward finding ways to address those challenges. But the results of ALM's 2021 Mental Health and Substance Abuse Survey show lost ground in that effort.
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