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Workload and Getting It All Done Top Challenges for In-house Counsel: Survey
By Gail J. Cohen | January 22, 2025
Increasing responsibilities and accountability plus more work are creating high anxiety and stress levels in almost half the Canadian survey’s respondents.
1 minute read
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Long Hours, Lack Of Boundaries: Associates In India Are Leaving Their Firms
By Kasvi Sehgal | January 22, 2025
Associates in India are unhappy with law firm work culture and are expressing their dissatisfaction by leaving firms and sometimes the profession. What are Indian law firm leaders doing about it?
1 minute read
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More Young Lawyers Are Entering Big Law With Mental Health Issues. Are Firms Ready to Accommodate Them?
By Dan Roe | October 24, 2024
A generation well aware of its mental health struggles will require law firms to adapt, experts said.
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World Mental Health Day: Prioritise Some Time For You
By Curtis Anderson and Natalie Smith | October 10, 2024
Two Taylor Wessing trainees spoke with LawCare about the mental health challenges faced by junior lawyers and how the industry can better support those working within it.
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Pandemic-Era Mental Health Issues Still Plague Lawyers Who Graduated in 2020: NALP Survey
By Gail J. Cohen | September 25, 2024
Results of a Canadian study are a red flag worthy of industrywide attention, association executives say.
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Dentons Attains 'Menopause Friendly' Status
By Kasvi Sehgal | July 4, 2024
It joins Clifford Chance and others in achieving accreditation.
2 minute read
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A Working Mum and Carer, One Year In...
By Sarah Washbrook, Addleshaw Goddard | June 14, 2024
For Carers Week, a lawyer at Addleshaw Goddard tells her story after her son's diagnosis changed her life.
5 minute read
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How I Deal with Stress: A Partner on Handling the Strains of Litigation
By Habiba Cullen-Jafar | June 4, 2024
In the latest Q&A on how senior lawyers handle the pressure of working in law, a partner at litigation boutique Stewarts shares her experiences.
6 minute read
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Is There a Maximum Number in This Salary Race?
By Paul Hodkinson | May 27, 2024
What we need is a market peak, a Usain Bolt of the legal world that sets a junior lawyer pay rate so far ahead that no one can beat it, but AI might make the problem worse, writes the Global Lawyer.
6 minute read
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The Partners Are Not All Right: Why Senior Lawyers Need Mental Health Support
By Jeannette Boot, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr | May 24, 2024
We partners tend to think that we don't need help – it's the juniors who need it. But the truth is, so do we.
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Counterpoint: FLA Is Committed To the Success of Legal Professionals
By Carol Parks | February 4, 2025
The “bad night” theory of DUI arrests certainly can be true. Statewide, however, approximately 60% of Florida drivers who have one DUI will repeat this behavior, and individuals with substance-related disorders have often made earnest but unsuccessful attempts at their own harm reduction techniques.
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Why Associates in This Growing Legal Market Are Leaving Their Firms
By Kasvi Sehgal | January 22, 2025
"It's a different generation and credit to them that they're not walking the traditional route. They don't look at it as the end of a journey to become a partner."
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Long Hours and Lack Of Boundaries: Associates In India Are Leaving Their Firms
By Kasvi Sehgal | January 22, 2025
Associates in India are unhappy with law firm work culture and are expressing their dissatisfaction by leaving firms and sometimes the profession. What are Indian law firm leaders doing about it?
1 minute read
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How ‘Bilateral Tapping’ Can Help with Stress and Anxiety
By Jennifer Kupferman | January 21, 2025
Lawyers are often trying our best to project a cool, confident demeanor even in moments when we’re feeling quite the opposite, psychotherapist Jennifer Kupferman writes. Doing bilateral stimulation before that upcoming client pitch, deal closing, or court hearing, can help steady one’s nerves.
1 minute read
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‘Extremely Disturbing’: AI Firms Face Class Action by ‘Taskers’ Exposed to Traumatic Content
By Michelle Morgante | January 17, 2025
"Each of the plaintiffs has suffered mental and emotional trauma from being exposed to depraved content in service of Scale AI’s various projects." said Glenn Danas, lead counsel for the plaintiffs.
1 minute read
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Sealy Mattress Company Is Sued After Georgia Man Was Found Dead Inside a Locked Trailer
By Jeff Martin | January 17, 2025
Relatives had been searching for the 27-year-old man who was experiencing a mental health crisis. Location data from his phone showed that he was somewhere on the property of a manufacturing facility in Conyers, according to the suit.
1 minute read
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Florida Lawyers Assistance in Need of Reform for Fairer Mental Health, Substance Abuse Monitoring
By Brian Tannebaum and Matthew W. Dietz | January 6, 2025
For many years, Florida Lawyers Assistance was a haven for lawyers who needed help. Now it has become an adversarial arm of the Florida Bar that no longer serves Florida’s legal profession. FLA should encourage help-seeking behaviors and not seek to hijack the doctor-patient relationship for its own survival.
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Conquering Holiday Stress
By Dr. Marsha D. Brown | December 19, 2024
While many people delight in holiday gatherings and celebrations, those within the legal realm must navigate a unique set of challenges, including heavy caseloads, demanding clients and personal holiday commitments. Between stress at work and responsibilities at home, this can seem daunting and, at times, outright overwhelming. To help navigate this season, here are six tips to help conquer holiday stress.
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Mental Health Issues Don’t Get a Holiday
By Joette Katz | December 17, 2024
While many of the barriers to improving access to mental health care are deeply rooted in our health care systems, they are not impossible to solve, columnist Joette Katz writes.
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It’s OK to Not Know How You Feel. Here’s What to Know Instead
By Jennifer Kupferman | December 6, 2024
It’s a stressful time of year for many of us. Jennifer Kupferman, a psychotherapist who specializes in working with lawyers, says recognizing the different states of the nervous system—rather than trying to pin down how exactly we’re feeling—is key to unlocking ourselves.
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