The weight of the law failing students
Lawyers Weekly, By Luke Williams Depression runs rife through law schools and some experts blame 100 per cent weighted exams and other examination pressures. Are we failing our best and brightest before they even reach the legal profession? Luke Williams reports. The peak body for law students in Australia believes law faculties could be doing...
Student depression tackled online
Lawyers Weekly, By Zoe Lyon An entrepreneurial law graduate has set out to tackle depression at law school level, recently launching the website “Law School: A Survivor’s Guide” (www.survivelaw.com). The site, which is being supported by the University of Technology Sydney, has been developed by UTS law graduate Wenee Yap to assist law students with...
Top firms vow to tackle depression
Lawyers Weekly The managing partners from Australia’s largest law firms have unveiled a collaborative strategy to tackle depression in the legal profession. Presenting their initiative at the Tristan Jepson Memorial Lecture at Freehills on 24 September, representatives from Clayton Utz, Allens, Mallesons, Blake Dawson and Freehills revealed they have been in “frank” and “honest” collaborative...
Helping others come back from the black
Lawyers Weekly Last week Graeme Cowan shared his advice on short-term solutions for lawyers suffering depression. This week, he shares advice on what colleagues can do to help Graeme Cowan was the joint managing director of a professional services firm before being struck down by a five-year episode of depression. He frequently shares his story...
Depression: Coming back from the black
Lawyers Weekly The incidence of depression in lawyers is almost double that of the general population, writes Graeme Cowan Feeling like you are treading water in a whirlpool? Are you struggling with continued interruptions that leave your mind always cloudy? Finding it difficult to switch off from work and sleep properly? Wound up like a...
Lessons from Great Depression
Lawyers Weekly Innovation, early cost-cutting and investment in R&D are three common strategies of companies which emerged strongly from the Great Depression and from which companies can learn today. Companies such as GE, P&G, and IBM had common strategies during the Great Depression, such as investing in areas in which other companies had cut back,...
Call for early identification of lawyer depression
Lawyers Weekly, By Angela Priestley Depression in law starts young and with law students increasingly reporting distress, it’s in the university system that the issue should first be addressed, a recent study has found. The results of a comprehensive study into depression in law by the Brain and Mind Research Institute, indicate that depression in...