Colorado Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being

The Colorado Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being will use its members’ leadership and commitment to service to develop concrete actions to help judges, lawyers, and law students thrive in the profession. The Task Force first convened September 12, 2018.

Minutes and Materials: Minutes and materials will be posted as they become available.

• November 6, 2019 Meeting Minutes


• September 4, 2019 Meeting Minutes


• June 5, 2019 Meeting Minutes


• March 27, 2019 Meeting Minutes


• February 6, 2019 Meeting Minutes


• November 7, 2018 Meeting Minutes


• September 12, 2018 Meeting Minutes


• Welcome, Introductions, View from the Bench, and Survey Responses


• Stress in the Legal Profession and Defining Well-Being


• National Trends in Lawyer Well-Being


• Stress and Burnout in Physicians and Lawyers


• Addressing Lawyer & Law Student Well-Being


• Strategies for Improving Well-Being of Colorado’s Legal Professionals


• Justice Monica Márquez & Jonathan White, Call to Action: The Colorado Supreme Court’s Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being, 96 DENV. L. REV. 247 (2019).

Membership roster

Working Groups

To read the report of the National Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being, released in August 2017, click here.

To learn more about the Colorado Lawyer Assistance Program, click here.

To learn more about the Colorado Attorney Mentoring Program, click here.

To review the Well-Being Toolkit for Lawyers and Legal Employers created for the American Bar Association, click here.

To read the Virginia State Bar President’s Special Committee on Lawyer Well-Being’s May 2019 report, “The Occupational Risks of the Practice of Law,” click here.

To review the reports from well-being task forces in three other jurisdictions, click on the titles here:

• Arkansas Supreme Court Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being
  
  
• Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Steering Committee on Lawyer Well-Being


• Utah Task Force on Lawyer and Judge Well-Being


• Vermont Commission on the Well-Being of the Legal Profession


• Committee on Lawyer Well-Being of the Supreme Court of Virginia

To read about the billable hour’s potential impact on well-being, click here to read Roy Strom’s article, “Seeing Lawyers in Crisis, Some Blame the Billable Hour,” published May 19, 2019, on Law.com.

Additional articles concerning lawyer well-being from THE BENCHER, published by the American Inns of Court:

• Andrew M. Hicks, Getting Through Rough Days: Changing Our Culture and Building a Community of Hope, THE BENCHER, March/April 2020.


• Jenna C. Jordan, Stress Success, THE BENCHER, March/April 2020.