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Work Life Balance Resource Center

The Work Life Balance Resource Center is an online bibliography with web links to articles of interest to DRI members dealing with work-life balance topics. It offers ongoing DRI member-curated content with online links to interesting articles for your health and your practice. Ideas on how to cope with stress, help a colleague in need, or make your practice more efficient are featured, along with articles on parental and compassionate leave programs for law firms. If you have suggested links of your own, please contact DRI FL vice-chair Susan Gunter.

To facilitate access and review, the available web links and articles of interest have been categorized by the following topics (click on a category to expand/collapse content):

Avoiding Burnout

How Lawyers Can Avoid Burnout and Debilitating Anxiety

Breaking the Stigma of Mental Illness and Depression

A Lawyer Breaks the Silence about Depression Among Lawyers

Judge Talks Openly About Depression

Compassion Fatigue

Compassion Fatigue: Bodily Symptoms of Empathy

Compassion Fatigue in the Legal Profession

What is Compassion Fatigue?

Judges [and Lawyers], Compassion Fatigue, and Tools to Respond Effectively

The Toll of Trauma

Compassion Fatigue and Attorneys: What is your Self-care Plan?

Coping with Termination

The Leadership Upside of Getting Fired

Depression - Ways to Cope

The Depressed Lawyer: Why are so many Lawyers so Unhappy?

Depression and Millennials

Lawyers and Depression: Three Case Studies

Assisting the Depressed Lawyer (PDF)

Recognizing Concealed Depression - Tips

Ending the Epidemic of Lawyers’ Depression and Substance Abuse Disorders

Women and Depression

Men and Depression

Exercise and Wellness

In the Solution: Lawyers and Fitness

The Making of a Corporate Athlete

The Power of Strategic Rest

A Lawyer's Lumberjack Training Secrets

A Fit Lawyer’s a Better Lawyer

Stepcounters – Are they Worth it?

Financial Management

Law School Debt – How to Manage It

Financial Literacy- No Longer Optional for Lawyers

Essential Financial Management for Lawyer Entrepreneurs

Money Advice for Doctors, Lawyers and the Rest of Us

Financial Tips for Young Lawyers

Spend Money Mindfully to Manage Stress

Money Tips for Young Lawyers

Flexible Work Arrangements

Devise Flexible Work Arrangements That Actually Work

Guides to Developing a Policy regarding Flexible Work Arrangements

Model Policy: Flexible Work Arrangements

Is Stay-at-Home Dad Necessary for Female Lawyers with Kids?

You Don’t Have to Quit Lawyering to Have a Life: 5 Steps to a Virtual Practice

Helping a Law Firm Colleague in Trouble

Reading the Signs (PDF)

Happiness

Pessimism Leads to Happiness

What Makes Lawyers Happy? (PDF)

Learning to Say No

Learn to Say No to Clients, Opposing Counsel, and the Court

Be A Choosy Lawyer

Life Coaching

Professional Coaching for Lawyers

Lawyer Coaching Will Boost ROY: Return on Yourself

Introverted Lawyers

Maintaining Limits with Alcohol

Alcohol Abuse and Dependence

Do you have a Drinking Problem, Counselor?

Alcoholism in the Legal Profession

Why do Lawyers Drink so Much? Because They Can

Alcohol at Law School

Stress Leaves lawyers Prone to Addiction

17 Statistics on Drug Abuse Among Lawyers

Mindfulness

Goodbye Rambo, Hello 'Mindfulness'

The Contemplative Lawyer

Lawyers Go Zen, with Few Objections

The Evidence is In: Mindfulness is a Powerful Stress Reliever

Train Your Brain to Focus Better

Nutrition

Nutrition Tips for the Generally Sedentary Attorney: It’s All(Most) in Your Mind

Lawyers, Look After Your Health - Nutrition

Parental Leave

Navigating Maternity Leave (PDF)

Part-time Employment Options

Can I Make a Part Time Law Practice Work?

In Praise of the Part Time Lawyer

Perfectionism Trap

Coaching on Being Resilient in Failure

Pro Bono

Motivation at Work: More than Money TED talk

Making the Business Case for Pro Bono (PDF)

Recognizing Non-Substance Addictions

Why is it so Hard to Believe in a Behavioral Addiction

Reducing and Coping with Stress

Five Ways to Beat Stress and Make Eeveryday Life Easier

Lawyers & Stress

How to Stop Stress from Ruining Your Career

How Successful People Stay Calm

Restore Order to Your Desk to Reduce Stress

Retirement

Retirement for Lawyers

A Way to Look at Retirement

Retirement as a Renewal Process

Returning to Work After Leave

How to Plan and Execute a Smooth Return to Practice (PDF)

A Career Comeback at any Age (PDF)

Preparing for Re-Entry

Sabaticals

Sabbaticals Help Lawyers Reassess, Redirect Their Careers

Time Out, Time Off: Lawyers on Sabbatical

Planning a Sabbatical

Sadness v. Depression

Is it Lawyer Sadness or Lawyer Depression?

Sleep Hygiene

A Guide to Good Sleep Hygiene

Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers: Sleep Resources (PDF)

How an Insomnia Therapy Can Help With Other Illnesses

Support and Networking

Thoughts on How to Network as a Lawyer at a Small Firm

Mentoring Helps Attorneys at all Levels Advance Their Careers

Networking Tips For Lawyers: The Art of Schmoozing

When a Colleague Needs Help

Time Management

Tips to Save Time at Work (TED Talk)

A New Paradigm for Attorney Time Management

Guide to Time Management for Lawyers

Time Management Practice Management Guideline

Lawyer Time Management

Feeling Time-Starved? Well, You’re Not

Vacation Planning

Let it Go: Why Lawyers Need to take Vacations

Vacations and Staycations – Why Lawyers Need Them

Too Busy to Take Time Off? The Workcation May be For You

Should I Stay or Should I Go?

What I did Over my Summer Vacation

Working From Home

Telecommuting: An Alternative Work Arrangement That Really Works

Debunking Myths about Telecommuting for Lawyers

Work-Life Balance

Why Work Life Balance is So Hard to Find

How to Make Work-life Balance Work (TED Talk)

Leadership Practices for Work Life Sanity

Big Law Mommy: It’s Work Either Way

Big Law Firm Does Something About Work Life Balance

Making of the Most Brutal Jobs a Little Less Brutal

Business Executives on Work Life Balance

Work-Life Balance and Technology

Work Life Balance Through Technology