A major survey by the American Bar Association has found that ‘nearly half of all lawyers (47.4%) screened positive for high burnout, including 15.6% meeting the threshold for severe burnout’. Can AI help?

The survey of 37,000 lawyers across the US, performed in conjunction with Krill Strategies, also found the following data, (rounded up to whole numbers) –

36% of lawyers report high or very high conflict between their professional and personal lives.

42% of lawyers screened positive for risky drinking under standard clinical thresholds.

Plus, when asked what they believed to be the situation with colleagues, ‘57% reported observing mental health or substance use problems among colleagues occasionally or regularly’.

31% reported encountering a legal professional in the past 12 months whose well-being raised concerns about fitness to practice.

41% of lawyers reported that time in the legal profession has been detrimental to their mental health.

27% reported considering leaving the profession due to mental health, burnout or stress.

Meanwhile, only 39% felt that their employers were ‘doing enough’ to support them, and only 25% believed the legal profession as a whole was ‘doing enough’ – although it’s perhaps hard to define what this would look like, (see below).…

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