August is National Wellness Month, and for attorneys, it arrives at a moment when the profession is having a more honest conversation about what sustained legal practice actually costs. The long hours, the high stakes, the pressure to perform without complaint: these are not just occupational inconveniences. They are documented risk factors for burnout, impaired judgment, and professional responsibility problems. The four courses below take attorney well-being seriously, not as a soft topic but as a professional obligation, and each one offers something different.
Whether you are looking to understand where your stress actually comes from, build lasting mental fitness, reconnect with your purpose, or simply get your energy and focus back on track, there is something here for you.
Presented by Amy Goodson, RD and Gabriella DiSilvio, Esq.
What attorneys put into their bodies and how they move, or do not move, through the day has a direct impact on how well they think, how they manage stress, and how effectively they meet their ethical obligations. That is the premise of this practical, engaging program from registered dietitian Amy Goodson and attorney Gabriella DiSilvio, who leads Lawline's legal content team and spends a lot of time thinking about how lawyers learn, grow, and stay well in a changing profession.
If you need any proof that the conversation around attorney well-being is shifting, look no further than DiSilvio's recent LinkedIn post, where she noticed something genuinely remarkable in a batch of attorney out-of-office replies: more and more of them simply said "I'm away, someone else has you covered," with no apology, no explanation, and no offer to check messages periodically. It is a small thing, but it signals something real. Healthy boundaries are becoming a little more normal in the legal profession.
This course picks up exactly where that observation leads. It walks attorneys through how chronic fatigue, anxiety, and over-reliance on stimulants like caffeine and sugar can erode cognitive performance and compound mental health risks over time, and it offers realistic, sustainable nutrition and movement strategies that attorneys can actually implement in a demanding schedule. The goal is not a dramatic lifestyle overhaul. It is the kind of steady, practical investment in your own functioning that makes it possible to come back from a vacation, or a hard week, able to do your best work.
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Presented by Adam Ouellette
Most stress management advice tells attorneys what to do after stress has already taken hold: breathe, exercise, take breaks. This course takes a different approach entirely. Rather than treating stress as something to manage after the fact, it asks a more fundamental question: how does stress actually get created in the moment of legal work?
The answer, it turns out, has more to do with internal patterns of thought and perception than with the volume of work on your desk. This program introduces a practical framework for understanding stress at its source, helping attorneys recognize the internal responses that drive their stress cycles and apply simple, real-time techniques to interrupt them before they compound. For attorneys who have tried the standard stress management toolkit and found it wanting, this course offers something genuinely different.
Presented by Jonathan Z. Cohen
Burnout is not just a wellness problem. Under the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, unmanaged stress that impairs judgment, communication, or decision-making is an ethical problem too. Rules 1.1 and 1.16(a)(2) make clear that impairment has professional responsibility consequences, and this course connects those dots in a way that much well-being content does not.
Through practical frameworks and real-world legal examples, the program helps attorneys recognize the early warning signs of burnout, identify the self-sabotage patterns that gradually undermine their effectiveness, and build the mental fitness habits that support both ethical clarity and sustainable performance. It is a course that takes the legal profession's specific pressures seriously and offers tools calibrated to them.
Presented by Lauren Fraser
Wellness is not only about managing what depletes you. It is also about connecting to what drives you. Lauren Fraser's course takes that second dimension seriously, offering attorneys of all levels and practice areas a structured way to identify their purpose and translate it into a more focused, more fulfilling legal practice.
The course moves from the personal to the practical: from clarifying your purpose in life to building a "vivid vision" for your practice, to developing targeted marketing and networking plans rooted in that purpose rather than in what you think you are supposed to be doing. For attorneys who feel adrift, burned out, or simply ready for something different, this is a course about finding the thread that makes the work worth doing again.
These attorney-approved programs provide the kind of practical, honest guidance that can genuinely change how you experience your career. Burnout, stress, purpose, performance, mental fitness: whatever brought you here, the courses above meet attorneys where they are and give them real tools to move forward.
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