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By Gina Passarella Cipriani | February 11, 2020
"It's hard to imagine addressing lawyer mental health and wellness without addressing the operational model of billable hours—to expect someone to not be depressed billing every six minutes," said Eilene Zimmerman, author of the new book "Smacked."
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By Hannah Roberts | February 6, 2020
Early findings from the new study of lawyers in England and Wales suggests that lawyers have poor well-being.
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By Hannah Roberts | February 3, 2020
New research shows that the legal sector is among the worst affected by the 'Sunday night fear'.
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By Hannah Roberts | January 22, 2020
Annual figures released by mental health charity LawCare show that calls about workplace bullying rose 70% year on year.
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By Samantha Stokes | January 15, 2020
The initiative, which comes as firms look for ways to tackle a mental health crisis in the profession, is an offshoot of the firm's business inclusion group for people with disabilities.
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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 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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By Greg Andrews | October 13, 2022
"The work they are doing matters. They are making a difference," HUB International legal and compliance chief John Albright said of in-house attorneys. "You sometimes have to help them better understand the full business impact of their contributions."
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By Phillip Bantz | October 12, 2022
The majority of in-house lawyers in a recent study reported feeling stressed or burned out in their current roles and many planned to leave corporate legal departments altogether.
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By Lori L. Pines | October 10, 2022
Lawyers not only have a duty to clients to attend to well-being, they owe that duty to themselves because no one else has a greater ability to influence his or her own well-being.
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By Joel Cohen | October 7, 2022
Possible mental infirmity is a difficult problem that one needs to address gingerly. Hand wringing ethics opinions don't necessarily tell us exactly the factors we need to consider and the manner in which we should go about it.
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By Amanda Bronstad | October 6, 2022
The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation on Thursday ordered U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to oversee nearly 100 lawsuits brought against Meta Platforms Inc., which operates Facebook and Instagram, and the companies behind Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube.
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By Zack Needles | October 3, 2022
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By The Associated Press | September 29, 2022
"(Tuesday) my family endured one of the toughest days in our lives," Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler said in an approximately nine-minute statement to reporters before leaving without taking questions.
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By Greg Andrews | September 22, 2022
"Some employees with mental health conditions who have been working from home for almost two years are overwhelmed with anxiety at the prospect of returning to the office," according to a Fisher and Phillips client briefing.
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