Program Webinar
Description:
In
serving clients, the profession, and the system of justice, lawyers bring
intellect, passion, and skill, carry significant workloads, and work long hours
in close relationship with others solving difficult problems. Lawyers seek
not only justice and successful resolution for clients and others, but also
fairness, meaning, and intrinsic and external rewards for themselves. These
aspects of a lawyers’ work including bias can cause chronic stress, resulting in
burnout, poor physical health, or other health challenges such as anxiety,
depression, substance use, addiction, and mental illness. Effectively
managing workplace stress is critical to lawyer health, competence, and ethical responsibility. The stigma attached
to burnout and other physical or mental health concerns as well as
implicit and explicit bias can fuel burnout and make it difficult for
lawyers to get help.
This program explores what burnout is, how our
work as legal professionals and bias contributes to burnout, and how to head off
burnout, break the stigma, and get help to regain our spark and enjoy our lives.