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'The Practice of Law Can Be Really Lonely': How Two Litigators Are Providing Podcast Therapy to Fellow Lawyers

In this week's episode, Philadelphia trial attorney and podcaster Bob Levant talks with Law.com Editor in Chief Zack Needles about the psyches of lawyers, what life's been like as a litigator in quarantine, the lessons he's learned from guests on his "Iron Advocate" podcast and the feedback that he and his co-host are getting from listeners.
2 minute read

International Edition

Lawyers Are Suffering From Blurring of Work and Private Lives, Poll Finds

Nine out of 10 U.K. legal professionals feel the pressure of work interfering with their personal life during lockdown.
4 minute read

Law.com

How to Stay Productive While Working From Home

Staying productive is critical to a lawyer's success. After all, a lawyer's time is, quite literally, money. The ability to manage one's time, and more importantly, one's attention, is the key to becoming not only efficient but effective.
8 minute read

International Edition

Nearly Half Of Legal Workers Are 'Dreading Going Back To The Workplace'

Most respondents in a survey of UK legal professionals said that remote working had improved their work-life balance.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Mental Health: The First Step Is To Talk About It

So long as our profession remains siloed, we will fail to help attorneys at every age and every professional level from improving their lives and the lives of those who care for them deeply.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Superior Court Cracks Open the Door for Discovery of Mental Health Records

The Pennsylvania Superior Court has carved out an exception to the discovery of mental health records in C.L. v. M.P.
7 minute read

International Edition

We Must Do More to Help Stressed Out Junior Lawyers Who Are Being Punished for Covering Up Mistakes

Elizabeth Rimmer, CEO of legal mental health charity LawCare, is calling for a safer environment for junior lawyers to admit mistakes and avoid damaging the reputation of the industry.
6 minute read

International Edition

Linklaters Offers Accommodation and Funds to Staff Affected By Domestic Abuse

U.K. staff will be offered temporary accomodation, access to funds and additional paid leave to help them overcome domestic abuse.
3 minute read

Law.com

Mobility 'Boot Camp' for the Home- and Desk-Bound Lawyer

While it's true we need to move more, we also need to move better. And while "abs are made in the kitchen," if we aren't tending to our bodies' rest and regeneration needs we can end up with pain, injuries, poor posture, fatigue, sickness and a load of other problems.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Do General Counsels Need to Take More 'Me Time' to Be Stronger Leaders?

"The No. 1 thing I'm hearing from the chief legal officers and general counsels is that they're concerned for their teams," said Lori Lorenzo, research and insights director for Deloitte's chief legal officer program.
4 minute read

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