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Law Firms Tackle Mental Health, 1 Initiative at a Time

Forty firms out of the Am Law 200 offered details on the steps they're taking to improve mental health and wellness among attorneys and staff.

10 minute read July 01, 2019 at 12:03 AM
By
Dan Packel
Law Firms Tackle Mental Health, 1 Initiative at a Time

Long before the American Bar Association challenged the country's law firms last September to do more to support attorney mental health (see, “ABA Sounds New Alarm on Substance Abuse, Firms Pledge Action,” American Lawyer (Sept. 10, 2018), legal industry experts had been sounding the alarm over high rates of depression, substance abuse and suicide in the profession.

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