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By Legal Week | January 2, 2020
Linklaters, Macfarlanes and Travers Smith leaders among those discussing what will be on their agendas in 2020.
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By Rose Walker | December 23, 2019
Most lawyers expect no break between Christmas and New Year and say they will be checking email constantly on the days they are off.
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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 Lindsey Tanner | The Associated Press | November 18, 2022
Abortion crackdowns enacted or enforced since Roe v. Wade was overturned in June illustrate the dichotomy. In at least eight states that allow exemptions for life-threatening conditions, physical health is the focus. The mother's mental health is not included.
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By Michelle Gonzalez, Samantha Anthony, Kristine Grady Derewicz and Brian O. Sumner | November 17, 2022
This Children's Grief Awareness Day, attorneys should seek to understand the impacts of grieving youth in the juvenile justice system.
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By Ross Todd | November 17, 2022
"We can all help overcome this stigma by acknowledging that this distress to one's mental health is a common human condition, requiring simply compassion, patience, and heartfelt support," said Thomas Leff, a trial lawyer based in Wilmington, Delaware, during a web discussion sponsored by ABOTA.
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By Allison Dunn | November 16, 2022
"While I respect the dissenters' view as well, they get caught up in the prior misconduct. They can't get beyond it. ... When the rubber meets the road, we're going to have to make some tough decision whether we really believe in rehabilitation," said Kevin Bank, who represented Zachary Stevens in challenging his denial to the bar association.
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By Brad Kutner | November 15, 2022
D.C. Superior Court Judges Juliet McKenna and Peter Krauthamer expressed concern following Kavita Kalsy's application to join the city's Criminal Justice Act Panel.
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By Amanda Bronstad | November 9, 2022
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, on Wednesday, rejected a proposed leadership team in the multidistrict litigation alleging social media sites like Facebook and TikTok caused addiction, then questioned 24 plaintiffs lawyers one by one.
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By Allison Dunn | October 19, 2022
"Carr's unprecedented misconduct involved more than 100 stipulated incidents that occurred over a period of approximately two years and encompassed repeated acts of dishonesty; the blatant and systematic disregard of due process, the law, court orders, and local rules; the disrespectful treatment of court staff and litigants; and the abuse of capias warrants and the court's contempt power. That misconduct warrants an indefinite suspension of law," the majority opinion said.
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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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