April 29: From Isolation to Connection: Supporting Mental Health in the Legal Profession
This webinar, From Isolation to Connection: Supporting Mental Health in the Legal Profession, is designed to help attorneys understand how isolation and loneliness in legal practice intersect with mental health challenges, including substance use disorder, depression, and anxiety. Building on the 2023 U.S. Surgeon General advisory that identified loneliness and isolation as an urgent public health challenge, the program focuses on how legal work structures can either support or undermine attorney well-being.
The course examines how colleagues, firm co-workers, professional organizations, and the broader legal community shape social connection and disconnection. It highlights how poor or insufficient social connection is associated with increased risk of anxiety, depression, substance use disorder, and suicide, and explains why legal practice is often described as the “loneliest” type of work—placing lawyers at heightened risk for problematic drinking, depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and chronic stress.
The program also explores traits common in lawyers that can fuel isolation and impair resilience, and it connects these dynamics to ethics, impairment, and attorney discipline. Finally, it offers practical strategies and resources to build healthier professional and personal connections, including consultation with Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers (LCL), employee assistance programs (EAPs), and other support services.
Date/Time:Wednesday, April 29, 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm CT
Register Now For This Free Continuing Legal Education Webinar!
Speaker:
Jon Tynjala, Esq., Executive Director, Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers
By:
Minnesota State Law Library Continuing Legal Education Programs
CLE Credit:
1 credit hour in Minnesota; Approval Pending: Minnesota. If you don't see your state listed in the registration form, contact cle@lexisnexis.com.
- Minnesota: One mental health/substance use CLE credit will be applied for.
- Other States: You may be able to self-apply for credit.
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