Legal Well-Being Network (LWBN)
An opportunity for our well-being pioneers and advocates in legal practice and education to come together to share best practices, ideas, challenges, and vision to improve the well-being of all legal professionals in Massachusetts. (See our speaker resource repository below.)
*Next Meeting:
June 4, 2024
1:00pm to 2:15pm (via Zoom)
A typical agenda includes:
Updates from SJC Standing Committee 1:00-1:15
Recap of Last Meeting 1:15-1:20
Speakers 1:20-2:00
Discussion and Networking 2:00-2:15
Recordings - YouTube Playlist
Resource Repository
At each meeting, we invite individuals to discuss well-being related work they do and efforts at their respective workplaces. Below is a collection of those testimonials.
(12/7/2022)
Lori Mihalich-Levin, Mindful Return
Alyssa Goodman, www.alyssagoodmanmsw.com
Lauren Gordon, www.laurengordon.com
Mindful Return Slides
(10/12/2022)
Nicole DeNamur, Sustainable Strategies PLLC
Building a Healthy Office
Healthy Law Offices - Q&A
Heading into an Office? Key Strategies to Advocate for a Healthier Office Space
The Creation of Sustainable, Healthy, and Inclusive Workspaces.
How your office can affect your wellbeing
(06/14/2022)
Amy Yarbro, Morrison Mahoney LLP
Natalie Loeb, Loeb Leadership
Articles
How I Can Better Manage People and Administrative Tasks
The Case for Active Listening for Lawyers
(04/05/2022)
Lisa Kirby, Chief Intelligence and Knowledge Sharing Officer, Diversity Lab
De’Von Douglass, Director Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Greater Boston Legal Services
(02/15/2022)
Shailini George, Suffolk University School of Law
Amanda Rowan, Assistant Clerk Middlesex Superior Court
Addiction and Recovery Resources
(12/14/2021)
Mala Rafik, Rosenfeld & Rafik on well-being in a small firm
Shira Diner, Todd & Weld on well-being in a mid-size firm
Anne Brafford, Institute for Well-Being in Law on the first annual IWIL Well-Being Conference
(10/12/2021)
Jarrod Reich, University of Miami Law School, “The Business Case” for Well-Being in Law
(8/11/2021)
Joe Milowic, Lawyers Depression Project
(6/15/2020)
Siobhan Handley, Orrick & Laurie Cappello, Mintz
(4/6/2021)
Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers and Samaritans, Inc.
(12/15/20)
Bernardo Cuadra, Attorney General’s Office
Summary of well-being work at AGO and sample well-being emails
(2/9/21)
Hannah Jellinek, Middlesex District Attorney’s Office
Additional Past Speakers
Laura Lemmons, Goodwin
Karen Febeo, Goulston & Storrs
Lisle Baker, Suffolk University School of Law
Kathy Zeiler, Boston University School of Law