The new "Getting It Done" series of group meetings for solo and small firm practitioners will soon commence its 6-meeting run, offering strategies to get more organized, implement goals, overcoming self-defeating beliefs/habits, combat procrastination and time wasters, and leverage technology…
Legal practice is a “tough assignment” for most every attorney out there, even if they love what they do! There are so many different elements to practice between managing client expectations, getting paid, keeping up with practice demands, court schedules,…
As a psychologist who has been on the LCL staff since 1998, it’s been interesting to note how the needs of our Massachusetts-lawyer clientele evolve and change with the times. For six years, I ran a group for lawyers in…
Most lawyers are acculturated to present an image of themselves as knowing, capable, even invulnerable or self-sufficient. Yet lawyers are human beings, and thus subject to vulnerabilities and setbacks. It is on that basis that, when speaking to groups of…
As the days grow shorter, colder and darker, people find themselves inclined to “batten down the hatches” and stay indoors. This time of the year is known in recovery circles as the “trifecta” (Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years). This trifecta…
Even at a time like this, when most employed people (lawyers and others) are happy to have a job, we recurrently meet lawyers who feel suffocated and stuck in work settings that we have come to refer to as “toxic.”…
Observed annually each September, “Recovery Month” sponsored by the US Department of Health & Human Services, promotes the societal benefits of treatment for substance use and mental disorders, celebrates people in recovery, lauds the contributions of treatment providers, and promotes…
Over a year ago, my first LCL blog of any substance dealt with the issue of lawyer suicide, at a time when 3 prominent lawyers had recently ended their lives, leaving many others not only saddened but also perplexed in…
Inasmuch as my previous post (“Is the Legal Profession Neglecting its Young?”) could be considered a bit inflammatory (though it is meant solely to support the needs of the profession’s newcomers), allow me to convey some additional information provided to…
Physicians follow their academic training with years in hospitals, through internship and residency, partly as cheap labor, but under the watchful/critical eye of more experienced physicians. Psychologists follow their years of classes with a year’s internship and two years’ supervised…