An Audacious Reimagining of Legal Industry Mental Health and Well-Being: What Does Winning Look Like?

This program will share a diverse collection of mental health advocates' and lawyers' thoughts about a better future for the legal profession. Mental health and wellness presentations often focus on the poor state of mental health and well-being in the legal industry, addressing the "business case" for well-being, or on different types of organizational practices or individual techniques. This presentation takes a different tack. Daring to dream about a better future for the profession, articulating it in concrete terms, and examining its many facets, are essential steps toward manifesting that future.

The central takeaway from this program is a tapestry of "what 'winning' looks like" for mental health and well-being in the law. It is hopeful, exciting, multi-faceted, and (with a lot of hard work!) achievable.

This program will benefit lawyers, staff, and mental health and well-being advocates in the legal industry in providing a vision of what "winning" looks like in the mental health and well-being space in the legal industry.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the aspects of mental health and well-being to focus on in law firm practice, law schools, and lawyer training

2. Discuss the aspects to success or "winning" in the mental health and well-being space in law

3. Review the general and specific steps to take to get there, both organizationally and personally