Creating mentally healthy legal workplaces

The legal profession has unique challenges for staff wellbeing. Poor mental health is a risk not just for individuals but for companies, as it can lead to worse outcomes or compromise the careful decision-making lawyers are required to do. So, there’s a strong business case, as well as a moral one, for considering staff mental health. This short booklet outlines the issues and is full of tips for supporting staff and changing the culture. It includes:

• statistics around mental health in the workplace;
• developing mental health policies;
• getting senior leaders involved and committed;
• embedding wellbeing into the organisational culture;
• raising awareness among colleagues;
• encouraging a healthy work/life balance, and the benefits of flexible working;
• investing in learning and development;
• encouraging mentoring and peer support;
• providing good supervision;
• tips for talking about mental health with a colleague;
• places to go for further help.

It’s a comprehensive but accessible starting point – and is a part of LawCare’s suite of resources​LawCare’s workplace hub Website LawCare's Workplace Hub brings together a wide range of links, materials and documents that they have curated to help legal firms and employers consider workplace mental health.Free By: LawCare View resourceClose to help you take things further.