Seyfarth Helps Launch American Bar Association’s Lawyer Well-Being Pledge

Seyfarth Shaw is an original signatory to the American Bar Association’s (ABA) new innovative pledge campaign to improve mental health and well-being of lawyers.

The campaign, organized by the ABA Working Group to Advance Well-Being in the Legal Profession, is designed to address the profession’s troubling rates of alcohol and other substance-use disorders, as well as mental health issues. You can read more here.

Seyfarth has been a leading voice in the effort to improve the emotional health and well-being of legal professionals through its launch of SeyfarthLife, one of the legal industry’s first multi-platform well-being training programs designed to enhance productivity and drive resiliency to stress amongst law professionals. This groundbreaking initiative increases organizational resiliency by supporting self-assessment, work-life integration and innovation to enable the highest levels of performance and career satisfaction for all personnel.

Partnering with Life Cross Training (LIFE XT), a leading provider of evidence-based human performance training solutions, the implementation of SeyfarthLife has translated into immediate results for the firm. Since launch, Seyfarth participants have reported double-digit improvements across the board, including a 23% increase in well-being and 17% increase in emotional health. You can read more here.