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Face Your Demons: Help Yourself Get Back On Track

It is a privilege to be able practice law, and you have a professional obligation to make sure your clients are properly represented. Therefore, you must be able to recognize problems that may interfere with your ability to fulfill this obligation. The key is to identify and do something about those problems before they hurt you or your client.

Resilience

It is the word we would use to define the ability to thrive in challenging situations. Can it be learned? Read more on how building resilience will enhance your practice and your life.

Stress Hardy Transition

This article is in two parts. The first addresses how stress that comes from fear puts blinkers on people and offers twelve ideas for dealing with it. The second part offers advice and tips about marketing yourself if you are in transition now or think you will be soon.

Stress Testing

Controlling our stress levels is a constant theme these days.

Stressed Out? Depressed? Drink too Much? Lawyer Assistance Programs Can Help

LAPs exist in all 50 states and are designed to help lawyers with all types of quality of life issues including drug abuse, alcoholism, stress management, and mental health issues such as depression. Learn how to help if you suspect a colleague is in trouble?

The Role of Stress and Anxiety in Depression in the Legal Profession

Lawyers suffer from clinical depression at an alarming rate. I have been a litigator for more than 20 years and am one of them.

Too Much To Do Too Little Time?

You think you're organized because you've got a 'to do' list but somehow it just never works out. The problem may not be your 'to do' list – it may be that you need a 'don't do' list.

You Can Find Time to De-Stress

In the midst of chaos, is it possible to sharpen your skills, meet your responsibilities and avoid stress? Pat McHenry Sullivan says yes.

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Lawyer Assistance Programs

1.800.285.2221 ext. 5359

If you or someone you know is suffering from stress, depression, or addictions, contact CoLAP.

ETHICSearch

Staffed by lawyers with a combined 30-plus years' experience in legal ethics research, ETHICSearch will help you locate citations to relevant ABA rules, ethics opinions, and other ethics resources that relate to your inquiry.

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Staying Positive in a Down Economy: Beyond the "Group Hug"

Listen in as expert faculty offer techniques to help your laid-off lawyer friends and colleagues find the motivation they need to get out of their PJs in the morning.

The Reflective Counselor

Reverse the burnout trend, and discover how easy it is to put energy and enthusiasm back into your career with this once-a-day meditation strategy.

What Lawyers Need to Know About Suicide During a Recession

This program will address the ethical responsibility employers have to assist attorneys in their employ that may be suicidal. Participants of this program will also receive compact suicide prevention gatekeeper training that will help them identify the signs of depression and suicide.

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