Keeping Legal Minds Intact

Free-1 hr WSBA ethics CLE available for download

Andy Benjamin, JD, PhD, ABPP, discusses briefly the etiology of lawyer stress that can lead to depression, alcohol/drug abuse, and cardiovascular disease. These are the conditions that most frequently plague lawyers in contrast to other professional populations. He provides the evidence-based findings from the scientific literature about how to sustain lawyer health, values, and spirits.

Read about the content of the WSBA CLE in an article published by TRIAL entitled “Reclaim Your Practice, Reclaim Your Life”

Dr. Benjamin further describes the psychopathology that afflicts law students and lawyers during a podcast.

 Dr. Andy Benjamin (At Large Board Member For Washington Lawyers Assisting Lawyers and its Director of Training/Consultation) abenjamin@walal.org