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Giving lawyers a subscription to a wellness app doesn’t improve their mental health — especially if firms still expect them to work 80 hours a week. Yet some lawyers believe that if they use workplace mental health interventions and still feel stressed, it’s their fault. A recent study of workplace wellness programs found that employees participating in them were no better off than colleagues who...

There may not be a universal threshold for how many meetings is too many, but meeting overload is real. And meeting fatigue makes it tough — if not impossible — to get work done. It’s a drag on your mental health and on law firm productivity.

Excessive and ineffective meetings...

How will your firm celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride Month in June? The history of the struggle for LGBTQ+ liberation is interwoven with the practice of law, and the greatest moments of progress throughout the past century have come as a result of advocacy both within and outside the legal system. Take a moment to revisit:

• The 1924 founding of the United States' first chartered organization dedicated to gay rights by WWI army veteran Henry Gerber, whose home in Chicago's Old Town...

In theory, no organization should be more aware of the risks of putting sensitive material in writing than a law firm. In reality, everyone fires off an email or a text — in anger or frustration or simple carelessness — that they later regret. The problem is that once it’s in writing, it’s permanent. Internal electronic communications can be especially problematic if they are leaked...

DLA Piper recently raised eyebrows (and the blood pressure of any firm lawyers who are expecting a baby) by reducing the length of parental leave offered to "non-birthing" parents. In many cases, that means fathers. (It also means adoptive parents, foster parents and parents who welcome a baby through surrogacy.) It is rare to see a firm...