depression

Beyond burnout: Understanding suicide risk in law

Suicide isn’t always about mental illness. Sometimes it’s about silence. Stress. Isolation. And in law, that can be...

09 October 2025

By Rebecca Ward, MBA

1 in 10 lawyers plan to leave the profession over workplace culture

A recent survey of 1,900 lawyers discovered some alarming findings in relation to the impact workplace culture can have...

17 April 2025

By Kace O'Neill

Perfectionism, competitiveness can’t help lawyers out of ill health

Lawyers Weekly editor Jerome Doraisamy recently sat down with longtime friend and Herbert Smith Freehills senior...

21 November 2022

By Jasmine Siljic

Comic relief in the battle against depression

A group of Melbourne lawyers are putting on a comedy to help tackle the high rate of depression in the law.

28 March 2014

By Leanne Mezrani