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“…nothing takes you from 60 to zero as quickly as a drink or a pill.” Lisa F. Smith, attorney and author of “Girl Walks Out of a Bar” With the spread of the ever-mutating Covid virus, the practice of law as we know it has been turned on its head. The economic and...
Did you know that the first week in May is Lawyer Wellness Week? When I first heard about that I laughed to myself thinking “now THERE’s an oxymoron!” And then I started to ask myself why I had that reaction. Why does the concept of wellness seem so foreign to many of...
A few years ago, I discovered a word that described what I had felt, and still feel on occasion, during most of my legal career: “Imposter Syndrome.” It’s actually not a new term at all and has been around at least since the 1970s. But the term is new to...
“. . .women in the legal profession are being hit hard by this crisis. Many are attempting to do the impossible and there is a reluctance to admit they are not super women.” Dana Denis-Smith, founder of The First 100 Years Mental health in the legal profession has...
"There’s a first time for everything." We've heard this our whole life from parents, grandparents, teachers and others who were or are trying to guide us through the difficulties of doing anything for the first time. It is so often used that we dismiss it as cliché....
I was miserable. In the late 90s, as a family law practitioner, I decided I’d had just about enough of trying to do the impossible: getting people divorced in a civil manner, trying to resolve deep family issues in the context of a family court proceeding, or getting...
It's 5 AM and the alarm goes off. You roll over and immediately begin to think of your day ahead. A sense of dread fills your stomach as you mentally start to check off everything that didn’t get done yesterday. Forcing yourself to get up, you head for the kitchen...