Work Less, Earn More: Improving Lawyer Satisfaction and the Quality and Quantity of Work Product

This program will discuss the current state of lawyer well-being and how current programs to provide resources have not helped.  The program will address a different approach to improving quality of life for lawyers and improving the quality of their work, potentially allowing lawyers to work less and earn more.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the factors that lead to lawyer mental health and substance misuse issues

2. Review how factors intrinsic to the legal profession are driving burnout

3. Examine the concept of linearity and how it drives burnout

4. Discuss the concept of oscillation and how it can combat burnout and improve capacity over time by living like an executive athlete

5. Compare the difference between active versus passive recovery 

6. Cover concrete examples of practices that can be employed to create an executive athlete lifestyle and law practice

7. Assess fee structures and law firm billing practices that could be employed to achieve executive athlete culture in law firms