The largest survey of actively licensed lawyers to date found 47.5% with high burnout, and distress climbing steeply at the top of the burnout scale. A former trial attorney reads the 2026 Krill & Anker study itself, including what the headlines missed.
What Is a Flow State and Can Lawyers Access It? You have probably had the experience without having a name for it. A morning when the brief came together much faster than you expected. Where the argument organized itself almost effortlessly, each section following naturally from the last. Where you looked up and [...]
How Your Nervous System Is Costing You Billable Hours Research shows attorneys are interrupted every 3 to 11 minutes during the workday — and each interruption takes an average of 23 minutes to fully recover from cognitively. The gap between time at the desk and time billed reflects, in part, a biology [...]
Attorney Burnout Statistics: What the Research Really Shows If you follow legal industry news, you've likely seen the headlines regarding the lack of well-being in the legal profession. Burnout is high. Attrition is expensive. Mental health in the legal profession remains in crisis. Yet what you may not have seen is the full [...]
Why Lawyers Burn Out (And Why Willpower Isn't the Fix) Chronic stress and overwhelm are neurobiological, not a willpower problem. You know the feeling. It's 2:30 in the afternoon. You have a brief due Friday, three client calls to return, and a partner breathing down your neck about a matter that [...]
For lawyers, stress isn’t just an occasional inconvenience—it has the potential to become an occupational hazard. According to the American Bar Association (ABA): 🔹 Lawyers experience higher levels of stress, anxiety, and burnout than most professions. 🔹 Chronic stress weakens cognitive function, impairing decision-making and strategic thinking. 🔹 Left unchecked, stress leads to exhaustion, mistakes, and career burnout. The key to regaining control is activating the parasympathetic nervous system—your body’s natural calming mechanism. 🚀 This is where The Instant Stress Relief Breath™ comes in.
If you are the owner or managing partner of a small law firm or solo practitioner looking for ways to quickly increase the profitability of your firm or practice, without spending a penny on marketing or advertising, there’s no better way to do that than by embracing the power of compounding growth in your [...]
As a lawyer, you are responsible for influencing people regardless of what practice area you are in. As a litigator, you want to influence judges, jurors, opposing counsel, and others. As a business attorney, you want to influence investors, parties involved in transactions, banks and other financial institutions, and of course other lawyers. As an in-house attorney, you are responsible for influencing people when it comes to making decisions regarding moving forward on a deal and in what fashion.
As a lawyer or leader of a law firm, you are always thinking about ways you can measure and continuously improve your results. That’s true whether you're looking at ways to improve litigation results, negotiate deals, close transactions or lead your team. When it comes time for straight talk to candidly look at what you set out to do, what actually happened, why it happened and what you plan to do next time to produce a better result, there’s nothing that produces measurable results like the After Action Review (“AAR”).
As a lawyer or leader of a law firm, you are always thinking about ways you can measure and continuously improve your results. That’s true whether you're looking at ways to improve litigation results, negotiate deals, close transactions or lead your team. When it comes time for straight talk to candidly look at what you set out to do, what actually happened, why it happened and what you plan to do next time to produce a better result, there’s nothing that produces measurable results like the After Action Review (“AAR”).
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