06/10/2020

Helping Members Manage Stress in a Crisis

Provide resources to help them manage stress, depression and other issues

The Legal Marketing Association (LMA), which supports the marketing and business development arm of the legal profession, has long understood that their members need resources to manage stress, work-life balance, and mental health issues brought on by the inherent pressures of the legal profession. A 2016 report by the American Bar Association (ABA) and the Betty Ford-Hazelton Foundation that showed high rates of depression, anxiety, and substance abuse among lawyers spurred them to action.

“It was becoming a silent issue facing the entire legal community,” said LMA executive director Danielle Holland. LMA leadership realized that if these issues were a problem for lawyers in firms, they must also be affecting the rest of the professionals working in that culture.

Last year, LMA’s leadership team came together and engaged the organization’s membership to create an online Well-Being Resource Center that would help its members feel “safe, engaged, and healthy,” Holland said. LMA also surveyed members to assess their mental health needs so the organization could make sure it was providing the most relevant resources.

Please select this link to read the complete article from Associations Now.