Well-Being Pledge Campaign
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The ABA Well-Being Campaign was launched to improve the substance use and mental health landscape of the legal profession, with an emphasis on helping legal employers support a healthy and sustainable work environment. The primary vehicle for the Campaign is a Pledge calling upon legal employers (including the judiciary, law firms, law schools, corporate entities, government agencies, and legal aid organizations) to: (a) recognize that substance use and mental health problems represent a significant challenge for the legal profession and acknowledge that more can and should be done to improve the health and well-being of those in the legal community (including judges, lawyers, staff, and students); and (b) support and prioritize the Pledge’s seven-point framework for building a better future.
Legal employers who do so will be recognized on this website as Signatories to the Pledge. Each Signatory will then receive a recommitment form annually, asking them to describe any steps taken toward the objectives set out in the framework during the previous year and to recommit to the Pledge.
Signatories are recognized as leaders in the national effort to support mental health and well-being in the legal profession. Participating in the Pledge is a visible way (with no fee) to help break down the four barriers to obtaining mental health support: stigma, cost, awareness, and accessibility.
Other benefits of becoming a Pledge Signatory include:
- Premier opportunity to demonstrate publicly your commitment to well-being in the legal profession.
- Alignment with a framework—through the Pledge’s seven commitments—that helps your organization structure its well-being focus and initiatives.
- Invitations to two complimentary workshops per year with opportunities to hear from well-being experts in the profession and to collaborate and brainstorm with other well-being advocates in the profession.
- Access to the ABA Well-Being Pledge Communities page, which provides an online platform to facilitate the sharing of ideas and resources among Signatories.
- Access to resources on the Communities page, including data collected from the recommitment forms, such as lists of speakers and vendors relied upon by Signatories in their well-being initiatives.
For a more detailed description of the Campaign as well as a quote from ABA Past-President Bob Carlson in support of the initiative, see the official ABA Press Release.
Watch this Video Message from ABA Past-President Bob Carlson highlighting the ABA's efforts to improve lawyer well-being.
Pledge Members - 242 Signatories
Adams and Reese, LLP American Bar Association American Water Arnold & Porter Atlanta Divorce Law Group 3M Akerman LLP Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP* Alston & Bird American University Washington ArentFox Schiff Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme Court of Illinois Ave Maria School of Law Baker Botts LLP BakerHostetler Ballard Spahr LLP Barclays Barclay Damon LLP Barnes & Thornburg LLP Bayer U.S. Benjamin N. CardozoSchool of Law Beveridge & Diamond PC Blank Rome LLP Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota
Bracewell LLP Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP Bright Spot Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC Burke, Warren, MacKay & Serritella, P.C. Butler Snow LLP BYU Law School Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP Carlton Fields Case Western Reserve University Chapman and Cutler LLP Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association Clifford Chance US LLP Clyde & Co LLP Cohen Seglias Commonwealth of Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General Cook County State's Attorney's Office Cooley LLP Covington & Burling LLP Cozen O'Connor Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP Crowell & Moring LLP Crumpton Collaborative Solutions Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Davis Wright Tremaine LLP Day Pitney LLP Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Dechert LLP Dentons Dinsmore & Shohl LLP Dominion Energy/Law Department Dorsey & Whitney LLP Duane Morris LLP* Dunlap Law PLC Dykema ECIJA Epstein Becker Green EsquireWell Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP Everview Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Fenwick & West LLP Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP Fish & Richardson P.C. FIU College of Law Foley Hoag LLP Foley & Lardner LLP Foley Law PC Fordham University School of Law Forman Watkins & Krutz LLP Fox Rothschild LLP Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP Frost Brown Todd LLC Gibney, Anthony & Flaherty, LLP Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum LLP GoodSmith Gregg & Unruh LLP Goodwin Procter LLP Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP Gould & Ratner Goulston & Storrs PC GrantLaw PLLC Greenberg Traurig Greene Espel PLLP Harris Beach PLLC Harter Secrest & Emery LLP Hausfeld Haynes and Boone, LLP Heiting & Irwin, APLC High Point University Holland & Knight LLP Honigman* Houslanger & Associates, PLLC Howard University Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP Husch Blackwell LLP Ice Miller LLP Institute for Electronics and Jackson Lewis P.C. Jenner & Block LLP Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP Kelley Drye & Warren LLP K & L Gates LLP Khamoushian Law Group Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP Kutak Rock LLP Lane Powell PC Lewis Roca Latham & Watkins LLP* Lawrence & Bundy LLC Lewis Thomason Linklaters LLP Locke Lord LLP |
Lockridge Grindal Nauen P.L.L.P. Louisville Bar Association Lowenstein Sandler LLP Loyola Law School - Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles Mayer Brown LLP Mayo Clinic McCarter & English, LLP McDermott Will & Emery LLP McLane Middleton McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC Medtronic plc Michael Best Milbank Miller & Chevalier Miller Nash LLP Minnesota Child Support Magistrates SCAO Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. The Mississippi Bar Mitchell Hamline School of Law Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP* Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP Morrison & Foerster LLP Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP National Organization of Bar Counsel (NOBC) Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP Nexsen Pruet, LLC Nichols Kaster, PLLP Nilan Johnson Lewis PA Nixon Peabody LLP* Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Nossaman LLP Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, O’Melveny & Myers LLP Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP Paule, Camazine & Blumenthal, P.C. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Perkins Coie LLP* Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Porter Hedges LLP Proskauer Rose LLP Quarles & Brady LLP Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP Redgrave LLP Reed Smith, LLP* Regent University School of Law Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A. Robertson and Eastering PLLC Robins Kaplan LLP Robinson & Cole LLP Ropes & Gray LLP Rutgers Law School Santa Clara University San Jose Sharks Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP Selendy & Gay PLLC Seyfarth Shaw LLP* Shearman & Sterling LLP Sheppard Mullin Shook, Hardy & Bacon, L.L.P. Shutts & Bowen LLP Sidley Austin LLP S.J. Quinney College of Law Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Smithey Law Group Snell & Wilmer LLP* Stinson LLP Stoel Rives LLP Stokes Lawrence, P.S. Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP Squire Patton Boggs LLP Suffolk University Law School UIC John Marshall Law School Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP Tarley Robinson Taylor English Duma LLP The Bar Plan Mutual Insurance Co. The Towne Law Firm, P.C. The University of Tulsa College of Law The Virginia Bar Association The Wallace Law Firm PLC Thompson Coburn LLP Thompson Hine LLP UB Greensfelder UC Irvine School of Law University of Cincinnati University of Connecticut University of Denver University of Maine University of Miami University of Michigan Law School The University of Minnesota Law School University of Mississippi University of Missouri University of San Diego University of St. Thomas University of South Carolina University of Toledo University of Washington U.S. Bank Vanderbilt Law School VedderPrice Verrill Dana LLP Vinson & Elkins von Briesen & Roper, s.c. Waller Washington Council of Lawyers Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Wiggin and Dana LLP Wiley Rein LLP* Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A. Womble Bond Dickinson LLP Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP Zelle LLP |
*Indicates initial signer.
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