Attorney Well Being Committee

This Committee works to enhance the understanding of issues associated with attorney well being through education and other awareness activities. The Committee also explores programs, accumulates data and provides analysis to enhance attorney well being.

Chair
Smith Travel Research, Inc.
735 East Main Street
Hendersonville, TN 37075
(615)824-8664
Vice-Chair
Counsel on Call Inc
3251 Poplar Ave Suite 115A
Memphis, TN 38111
(901)432-4720

Why Thriving Is Hard for Lawyers

Thriving — achieving personally meaningful goals in multiple areas of life despite significant challenges — is tough for lawyers because we face a uniquely tough set of challenges. Everyone faces challenges, but lawyers face a unique configuration of five challenges and, unfortunately, law school not only did not prepare us for these challenges, it tipped us into some adaptations for them that get us by but inhibit thriving.

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Nine Pathways to Lawyering (and Living) in the Thriving Zone

Thriving, both in the law and in other areas of our lives, requires commitment, energy, and engagement. As the flowchart shows, failure is part of thriving.

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