Priscilla Lundin The 'New Normal' for Legal Employers: Signing the ABA Wellness Pledge
In this Lawyer Wellness column, Priscilla Lundin provides an update on the ABA Wellness Pledge, a two-phase public affirmation about attorney wellness, mental health issues and substance abuse. Three years in, there are 213 Pledge signatories and counting. Most are global Big Law firms, but other legal employers are joining too.
September 16, 2021 at 12:00 PM
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In September 2018, the American Bar Association's Working Group To Advance Well-Being in the Legal Profession (ABA Working Group) launched a Wellness Campaign for Legal Employers. This initiative flowed from the central themes in the August 2017 Report from the National Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being in August 2017 (National Task Force Report), which included:
… identifying stakeholders and the role each of us can play in reducing the level of toxicity in our profession … emphasizing that well-being is an indispensable part of a lawyer's duty of competence … [and] taking small, incremental steps to change how law is practiced and how lawyers are regulated to instill greater well-being in the profession.
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