Healthy Profession

National Research & Reports

• 2016 ABA/Hazelden Study
• The National Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being – The Path to Lawyer Well-Being: Practical Recommendations for Positive Change
• Policy developments relating to mental health, substance abuse and lawyer regulation

Selected Bar Wellness Efforts

Bars have been more intentional about creating alternative types of programming that de-emphasize or eliminate alcohol. Bars are raising awareness about the issues in a variety of other ways, including:

• State Bar of Michigan’s On Balance podcast
• Chicago Bar Association Wellness Month
• Washington State Bar Association's Member Wellness Program
• State Bar of South Dakota Living Above the Bar video series
• State Bar of Georgia Lawyers Living Well resources
• State Bar of Texas Stories of Recovery

Developments in Lawyer Regulation

Law students, law schools lead efforts to remove mental health questions from Character & Fitness equation (2019)

Student Debt as a Challenge to Wellness

• The Florida Bar YLD Takes a Hard Look at Law School Debt

Conferences

National Conference for Lawyer Assistance Programs

State Task Forces & Commissions

https://lawyerwellbeing.net/ (scroll for interactive map of state efforts and reports)

Surveys

• Bullying and sexual harassment in the legal profession survey International Bar Association
• Well being survey State Bar of Arizona
  
• Well being survey West Virginia State Bar (2018)