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By Mark Goldstein | July 7, 2019
Reed Smith lawyer Mark Goldstein explains what happened after he detailed his own mental health struggles, and what the response says about the progress the profession is making around mental health.
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By Gina Passarella Cipriani | June 30, 2019
Law firms are trying, associates aren't buying it and there may be a bigger fix needed than any individual contingent can offer.
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By The YL Editorial Board | June 28, 2019
But what actually works? And what are young lawyers in the U.S. doing to manage their stress and combat the day-to-day anxieties that come with our profession.
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By Meganne Tillay | June 20, 2019
The firm is the latest to ramp up its efforts to manage behaviour expectations.
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By Hannah Roberts | June 18, 2019
Mental health was one of the topics under discussion at the Banking Litigation and Regulation Forum.
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By Lizzy McLellan | May 30, 2019
A "'power-through' culture is killing the legal industry. It's literally killing humans as well," one wellness consultant said.
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By Dan Packel | May 29, 2019
"People come to us when they're in need, so it's very difficult for a lawyer then to say, 'I actually need help,'"
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By Lizzy McLellan | May 29, 2019
"The things that make you successful professionally can make you sick emotionally," says wellness consultant Jarrett Green.
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By Patrick Smith | May 24, 2019
Yale University professor Laurie Santos, who teaches a wildly popular course on happiness, says that in order to be happy, lawyers need to work at it.
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By Roy Strom | May 19, 2019
Measuring lawyers by the hours they bill was long treated as a necessary evil. Faced with evidence that mental health erodes as hours increase, legal industry innovators are asking how necessary it really is.
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By Allison Dunn | September 6, 2022
"Although we recognize that the defendants were informed by Bonafini's family of their concerns for him, this—without more—is not enough to have triggered a duty on the defendants to recuse, as tragic as the consequences of inaction were," Associate Justice Gabrielle R. Wolohojian wrote on behalf of the unanimous panel.
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By Allison Dunn | September 1, 2022
The judge attributed the outbursts to personal and family stressors that diminished his ability to contain his frustration.
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By Adrianna M. Yanez | August 31, 2022
The purpose of the study is expressly to examine an under-researched part of the attorney experience by systematically investigating specific factors and their impact on mental health, alcohol use and attrition in the legal profession.
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By Patrick Smith | August 29, 2022
More law firms have moved away from mandatory retirement policies, but the issue still has thorns.
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By Cheryl Miller | August 17, 2022
"The next year and a half to two years is going to be very interesting for the entire psychedelic space" as federal regulators consider approval of psychedelics-based treatments, Phillips Lytle's Kyle Mack said.
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By Alaina Lancaster | Zack Needles | August 12, 2022
In this week's episode, Jennifer Bluestein shared that law firms don't need to spend a bunch of money on amenities such as an in-house therapist to prevent attorney burnout. "It's about allowing people time and space to actually turn off work and focus on other things in their lives," Bluestein said.
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By The Associated Press | August 11, 2022
The Rev. Al Sharpton, noting reports that Brianna Grier was having what he called a "mental health episode," said the issue was not what she was thinking, but what police were thinking.
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By Aleeza Furman | August 9, 2022
"Flo was a tremendous asset to the District Attorney's Office when she came over," said Judge Charles Ehrlich of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. He described Messier as "the kind of person who understood what needed to be done."
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By Rick McGee | August 5, 2022
Burnout in legal professionals, more prominently in e-discovery and technology-focused practices where deadlines are fluid and budget-driven, has been on the rise for the past 18 months.
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By Jane Wester | August 2, 2022
NYSBA president Sherry Levin Wallach said destigmatizing mental illness is a priority.
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