A Little Less Conversation, A Little More Action
Mon, Aug 24
|online via Zoom
Conversations about lawyer shortages tend to focus on building the pipeline. It's time to turn our attention to the state of current legal professionals' well-being, too.
Registration closes Aug 24, 2026, 11:00 AM EDT
Time & Location
Aug 24, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
online via Zoom
About the event
The lawyer shortage is often framed as a question of supply, but it is equally a function of system design. The way legal work is structured — through persistent overload, competing demands, limited recovery time, and expectations of near-perfect performance under constant scrutiny — consistently produces burnout.
Despite a decade of increased awareness around well-being, these underlying conditions have not meaningfully changed. This session reframes well-being as a structural driver of both attrition and the pipeline. Participants will examine how system-generated stress reduces workforce capacity and will learn practical interventions that can be implemented within existing constraints. Improving well-being requires changing how the system works.
Agenda
Reframing the Lawyer Shortage (15 min)
How the System Produces Burnout (15 minutes)
Change What You Can Control (15 minutes)
Registration closes Aug 24, 2026, 11:00 AM EDT