In the 2006 Beaton Consulting / Beyond Blue survey of over 7,500 professionals:
- Professionals had higher than average depression scores than the general population
- Of professionals those working in law firms had the highest rates of depressive symptoms
In 2008 Professor Ian Hickie of the Sydney University’s Brain and Mind Institute:
- “Depression affects almost 33% of solicitors and 20% of barristers”
- “40% of law students experience severe stress/depression to the extent of requiring medical treatment”
- “11% of lawyers contemplate suicide each month”
In 2009 The Institute published:
Courting the Blues: Attitudes towards depression in Australian law students and legal practitioners
