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Mental Health Survey: Improvement, But Pressure from Clients Rose Due to Rate Increases

Dan Roe

While several data points from the ALM and Law.com Compass Mental Health Survey in the legal industry indicated that things have improved slightly, many lawyers sounded the alarm on added pressure from clients due to aggressive rate increases.

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A Roadmap for a Curated Career Image

A Roadmap for a Curated Career

Adriana Paris

A curated career is not a happy accident or a lucky break — it's the result of deliberate actions and choices that align with one's personal values.

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Creating a Roadmap for a Curated Career Image

Creating a Roadmap for a Curated Career

Adriana Paris

A curated career involves deep reflection, intentional thought, and a vastly different set of questions than we currently ask ourselves in law school about how to choose a job. It is not a happy accident or a lucky break — it's the result of deliberate actions and choices that align with one's personal values.

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Young Lawyers Cite 'Old School' Culture As Biggest Impact On Mental Health Image

Young Lawyers Cite 'Old School' Culture As Biggest Impact On Mental Health

Dan Roe

Lawyers of all ages reported being overstressed, overworked and underappreciated in The American Lawyer's annual mental health survey, but young lawyers in particular are struggling to live with the Big Law's grueling norms.

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Hidden Gems: Enliven Your Well-Being Programs By Thinking Outside the Box

Jon Krop

Well-being at law firms has gotten boring. Sorry, but it's true. You tend to see the same topics over and over: fitness, mindfulness, substance use, etc. By thinking outside the box, you can offer well-being programs your people will find exciting, impactful, and irresistible.

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Addressing the Spiral of Silence In Law Firms: Fostering Open Communication Image

Addressing the Spiral of Silence In Law Firms: Fostering Open Communication

Susan Freeman & Heidi Turner

The "Spiral of Silence" can mean workers don't feel comfortable sharing their opinion or voicing concerns about how they or others are being treated. This allows mistreatment and biases to go unchecked at an individual level and can also result in a secondary spiral in which workers feel they are not able to fully express their personal identity in the workplace.

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Better Law & Better Life Through Emotional Intelligence

Rich Bracken

As more and more attorneys realize that turning to mental awareness education and consulting is a sign of strength and not weakness, the ship of despair is beginning its turn toward better days of mentally strong and agile teams. So, where does one start this new practice? Enter emotional intelligence.

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Lawyer Well-Being at Work: It's a Two-Way Street Image

Lawyer Well-Being at Work: It's a Two-Way Street

John F. Hollway

It's Not the Number of Hours We're Billing or the Number of Hours We're Working; It's the Way We Feel About How We Spend Those Hours That Matters Working long hours, tracking those hours and feeling that we have to grind all year to hit a specific number of hours to meet a profitability target can make us feel like fungible, dehumanized automatons rather than highly trained providers of specific and thoughtful solutions to complex legal challenges.

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New Partners Are Worried About Mental Health and a Looming Recession, Annual Survey Finds Image

New Partners Are Worried About Mental Health and a Looming Recession, Annual Survey Finds

Dylan Jackson

Newly minted partners offered up some usual complaints on this year's New Partners Survey, lamenting unexpectedly low compensation, opaque performance metrics and copious administrative work. But new anxieties have arisen among Big Law's latest partner class, including the threat of a recession and growing concerns about mental health.

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