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Daily Business Review

Buy a Button: Mark Migdal & Hayden Launches a Social Media Mental Health Campaign

Proceeds will go to the Hagan Kilby Foundation, a nonprofit arm of Florida Lawyers Assistance.
3 minute read

Law.com

The Well-Being Spectrum: There's More Than 'In Crisis' or 'Perfectly Fine'

Penn Law associate dean John Hollway says programs and policies that help legal professionals cope with the normal stresses of life as they arise are the most effective, noting wellness is a spectrum.
6 minute read

The American Lawyer

What Happened After This Big Law Attorney Told the World About His Depression

Reed Smith attorney Mark Goldstein describes the response he received after he detailed his own mental health struggles, and what it says about the progress the profession is making around mental health.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Buffalo Law Student Dies From Suicide, Family Establishes Mental Health Fund

His mother said Matthew had been struggling with mental health issues for about five years, since he suffered a concussion from playing college football.
5 minute read

Law.com

'Like a Band-Aid Over a Bullet Wound': The Disconnect Between Firms and Lawyers on Well-Being Efforts

Law firms are trying, associates aren't buying it and there may be a bigger fix needed than any individual contingent can offer.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Safe2Say Something About the Special Education Funding Crisis

School districts have an obligation to provide a free appropriate public education to all of their resident students. Part of this "FAPE" mandate is the duty to locate, identify and evaluate students who may require special education and related services in school according to the “child find” obligation under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

What Young Lawyers Are Actually Doing to Relieve Stress

But what actually works? And what are young lawyers in Philadelphia doing to manage their stress and combat the day-to-day anxieties that come with our profession.
7 minute read

Daily Business Review

Incoming Florida Bar President John Stewart Talks Lawyer Referral Services, Mandatory Dues

Stewart speaks with the Daily Business Review about his priorities in his term starting Friday, including the importance of a mandatory bar and how working in a smaller jurisdiction informs his opinions on technology and lawyer referral services.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

A Lesson in Stress: Law Schools Are Now Focusing on Attorney Mental Health From the Get-Go

“In the past law schools had a sort of hands-off approach," said Laura Rosenbury, dean of the University of Florida Levin College of Law. "There wasn't programming about 'OK, you're gonna go be a big firm summer associate. … This is what you need to know to succeed.'”
8 minute read

Corporate Counsel

How Expat Lawyers Grapple with Loneliness, Exhaustion

Of all the mental health traps awaiting lawyers who are headed to a foreign outpost, isolation is the most dangerous, especially for in-house counsel as they tend to be more insulated and have fewer colleagues in their legal departments than attorneys working at big firms.
7 minute read

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