Law Practice
Aug. 23, 2023
Is the answer to a lawyer’s well-being to stop practicing law?
Burnout is a workplace issue, resulting from ongoing, unrelenting, workplace stressors. These stressors take many forms, depending on practice area and setting, including working around the clock on high stakes matters, working with clients whose legal issues involve emotionally salient fact patterns, or working for clients or employers whose actions challenge your ethical code or value system.
Traci Cipriano
Clinical Psychologist
Traci Cipriano, author of The Thriving Lawyer (July, 25, Routledge Publishing), is a clinical psychologist, was formerly a practicing lawyer, and is now an assistant clinical professor in the Yale School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry. www.thethrivinglawyerbook.com
Law practice is stressful. So are many other satisfying professions dominated by high achievers. Recently, a lawyer asked, “If the law is such a stressful profession, does it mean we are all supposed to look for a different career?” My answer: “Absolutely not.”
First, it is important to acknowledge that many successful lawyers thoroughly enjoy their work and are thriving. At the same...
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