Attorney Wellness: How to Handle Depression, Stress, Anxiety, Burn-Out

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Attorney Wellness: How to Handle Depression, Stress, Anxiety, Burn-Out

Program Originally Presented Tuesday, August 27, 2024

The legal profession is no stranger to the physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion that can result from prolonged stress and overwork. The path to success may often come at a cost – depression, anxiety and/or lawyer burnout.

In this CLE program, our featured speaker, diagnosed with major depression over twenty years ago while the managing partner at his law firm, will examine anxiety, depression, stress, and attorney burn-out and its crippling effects on the legal professionals. Most importantly, attendees will hear strategies and insights on how to recognize, prevent, and ultimately handle these formidable wellness adversaries.

The CLE will highlight:

• Definitions of depression, stress, anxiety, and burn-out
• Mental health statistics in the general population compared to the legal profession
• Risk factors for developing these conditions in the general population and, more specifically, as a lawyer
• Ethical and grievance issues that can arise due to these conditions
• Evidence-based coping strategies
• Stigma and the importance of seeking out professional help and support

When attorneys are faced with the stress, anxiety and pressures of law practice daily, decision-making may become clouded and negatively affect mental and physical wellbeing. This CLE program focuses on how we may alleviate stress and anxiety, to help prevent depression and burnout.

Featured Speaker:
Daniel T. Lukasik Esq.
Judicial Wellness Coordinator
New York State Office of Court Administration

Following his diagnosis of major depression and anxiety twenty years ago when the managing partner at his law firm, Dan created a weekly lawyer support group in his community for those who struggle with depression, anxiety, burnout, and chronic stress and the website Lawyerswithdepression.com, the first site of its kind in the nation, to help lawyers, law students, and judges cope with and heal from mental health problems. Dan’s work on mental health has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The National Law Journal, The New York Law Journal, ABA Journal, Bloomberg Law, Law360, and many other national and international publications and media outlets, including CNN and NPR. Dan is a certified trainer for Mental Health Works, an innovative, evidence-based program used throughout the U.S. to educate leadership teams about mental health issues in the workplace and how to address them practically and constructively manner with their employees.

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