{"id":162858,"date":"2026-09-14T12:41:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T20:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/14\/lawyers-are-even-more-miserable-than-we-knew\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T12:41:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T20:41:53","slug":"lawyers-are-even-more-miserable-than-we-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/14\/lawyers-are-even-more-miserable-than-we-knew\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyers Are Even More Miserable Than We Knew"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

It shows that the issues were worse than we thought. The levels of distress were higher than we knew.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i><\/span> \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span>Patrick Krill, co-author of a new national study on lawyer wellness, in comments given to Reuters<\/a>, concerning the troubling state of mental health within the legal profession. The study, which surveyed more than 37,000 lawyers, found that nearly 22% reported moderate to severe symptoms of depression, while more than 20% reported moderate to severe anxiety, and nearly 19% reported moderate to severe stress. More than 41% said their time in the legal profession had been \u201cdetrimental\u201d to their mental health.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The post Lawyers Are Even More Miserable Than We Knew<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

It shows that the issues were worse than we thought. The levels of distress were higher than we knew.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i> \u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Patrick Krill, co-author of a new national study on lawyer wellness, in comments given to Reuters<\/a>, concerning the troubling state of mental health within the legal profession. The study, which surveyed more than 37,000 lawyers, found that nearly 22% reported moderate to severe symptoms of depression, while more than 20% reported moderate to severe anxiety, and nearly 19% reported moderate to severe stress. More than 41% said their time in the legal profession had been \u201cdetrimental\u201d to their mental health.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. It shows that the issues were worse than we thought. The levels of distress were higher than we knew. \u2014 \u00a0Patrick Krill, co-author of a new national study on lawyer wellness, in comments given to Reuters, concerning the troubling state of mental health within the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":162859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}