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By Varsha Patel | March 25, 2020
"We're conscious of the poor female partner statistics in the industry", said Robert Blok.
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By Hannah Roberts | March 20, 2020
With lawyers adjusting to home working for an indefinite period, could their less formal surroundings bring them closer to their clients?
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By Rose Walker | February 28, 2020
Despite the challenges it presents to many senior women in Big Law, firms largely lack a plan to tackle the issue.
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By Leigh Jones | February 19, 2020
ALM's latest Mental Health and Substance Abuse Survey shows that the problems of depression, anxiety and substance abuse among lawyers and legal professionals may be worse than realized. At the same time, more people in the profession seem open to addressing it.
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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 Allison Dunn | December 8, 2022
"There have been only nine occasions on which this court has suspended an attorney's license for two years or longer without staying any part of the penalty. In light of the facts and circumstances of this case, I cannot agree that the respondent should be the 10th member of this Ring of Dishonor," West Virginia Supreme Court Justice William R. Wooton wrote.
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By Emily Cousins | December 2, 2022
"Yale's withdrawal policies and practices push students with mental health disabilities out of Yale, impose punitive consequences on students who have withdrawn, and place unreasonable burdens on students who, after a withdrawal, seek reinstatement," the complaint said.
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By Allison Dunn | November 22, 2022
"We recognize how respondent's mental impairment affected his client representation, and we afford it due mitigating weight," Justice Elizabeth D. Walker wrote on behalf of the court. "We also commend his actions to address it, and we acknowledge his continued efforts toward mental health recovery. But his impairment does not insulate him from meaningful sanctions."
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By Lindsey Tanner | The Associated Press | November 18, 2022
Abortion crackdowns enacted or enforced since Roe v. Wade was overturned in June illustrate the dichotomy. In at least eight states that allow exemptions for life-threatening conditions, physical health is the focus. The mother's mental health is not included.
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By Michelle Gonzalez, Samantha Anthony, Kristine Grady Derewicz and Brian O. Sumner | November 17, 2022
This Children's Grief Awareness Day, attorneys should seek to understand the impacts of grieving youth in the juvenile justice system.
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By Ross Todd | November 17, 2022
"We can all help overcome this stigma by acknowledging that this distress to one's mental health is a common human condition, requiring simply compassion, patience, and heartfelt support," said Thomas Leff, a trial lawyer based in Wilmington, Delaware, during a web discussion sponsored by ABOTA.
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By Allison Dunn | November 16, 2022
"While I respect the dissenters' view as well, they get caught up in the prior misconduct. They can't get beyond it. ... When the rubber meets the road, we're going to have to make some tough decision whether we really believe in rehabilitation," said Kevin Bank, who represented Zachary Stevens in challenging his denial to the bar association.
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By Brad Kutner | November 15, 2022
D.C. Superior Court Judges Juliet McKenna and Peter Krauthamer expressed concern following Kavita Kalsy's application to join the city's Criminal Justice Act Panel.
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By Amanda Bronstad | November 9, 2022
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, on Wednesday, rejected a proposed leadership team in the multidistrict litigation alleging social media sites like Facebook and TikTok caused addiction, then questioned 24 plaintiffs lawyers one by one.
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By Allison Dunn | October 19, 2022
"Carr's unprecedented misconduct involved more than 100 stipulated incidents that occurred over a period of approximately two years and encompassed repeated acts of dishonesty; the blatant and systematic disregard of due process, the law, court orders, and local rules; the disrespectful treatment of court staff and litigants; and the abuse of capias warrants and the court's contempt power. That misconduct warrants an indefinite suspension of law," the majority opinion said.
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