Addressing Lawyer Mental Health Issues in Your Practice

Depression, drug use, suicide, alcohol abuse and a host of struggles that we as lawyers help clients with plague us as well. Our profession faces a disturbing and sad level of problems. We owe it to ourselves, each other (our partners, associates and colleagues) and our clients to do better.¹ “The legal profession suffers from mental health impairment to a higher degree than does the general public or even the other professions. The predominant forms of impairment are alcoholism,