Burnout
Burnout is at epidemic levels in the legal profession, but many people don't even know they are suffering from it. These resources help to identify career burnout and offer some suggestions on how to counteract it.
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1 Burnout: Signs, Symptoms, and Prevention
2 Preventing Employee Burnout
3 Beat Job Burnout
 

Things You Should Know

In a 2004 Ipsos-Reid survey of Canadian lawyers, 70% of respondents said they had considered leaving the law - CBA Futures Initiative Survey

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What's Coaching?

I provide a structure to help you through the process of deciding whether you truly want to make the transition out of your current profession. If you decide to stay in practice, we will find work-life strategies to help you fit your profession into your life rather than your continuing to try to fit your life into your profession.

 

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Helena's Story

 Between 1979 and 1995, I tried to make the practice of law work for me on three different continents, in different-sized law firms, but I still felt as if I were in jail doing a life sentence. I made a lot of money, but I spent a lot of money too -- to compensate for the fact I never had enough time to relax and catch up with myself. I was burned out and miserable, but I kept going because I didn't know for sure there was another path.

 

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