Lawyer Health

Megan Zavieh says it is encouraging that more states are removing mental health questions from bar applications — but is it enough?

Empathy is important for lawyers. But you must recognize when you're emotionally compromised by secondary trauma.

Greenberg Traurig partner Chinh Pham, a lawyer by trade, a marathon runner by choice.

You don’t need to be on the cutting edge of every new fitness trend to get and stay fit.

Bouncing back is a skill that can easily be built with training — and one of the skills lawyers need for a long, healthy career.

For over 20 years I worked past the point of mental and physical exhaustion to rack up the requisite billable hours at a corporate defense firm.

Individuals preparing for bar admission may face a terrible predicament — weighing the need for mental health treatment against the likely difficulty imposed by the bar if they disclose treatment in their moral character application. This needs ...

Sometimes your day is cruising happily along. Then some bump in the road — or a major pothole — comes along to derail you from the easy life. And then there are days when everything seems to go wrong all day long. Life isn't always easy, but ...

I have a group of mental gremlins that live in my head. Other people I know call their gremlins “the girls” or “the committee.” These are the voices in my head that tell me I suck at everything. Do you have a name for yours? When my gremlins ...

Pandemic or not, our clients don’t stop needing us. As a lawyer and mother, I often say, “I don’t have time to be sick!” As we all know, without your health, nothing else matters: You cannot work, take care of clients, be there for your family, ...