
CPDOnline: Work Life Balance for the Modern Canadian Lawyer
There are plenty of videos and articles out there about improving work-life balance and improving mental health for lawyers. But I noticed that there are very few that provide any real strategies to help accomplish this.

Work-Life Balance for the Modern Lawyer
There are many self-help articles and books for every profession to assist with work-life balance, a trait which has never been more essential to service professionals like lawyers. In today’s smart-phone society emails are treated more like instant messages requiring immediate responses than the letters of old. In addition, the computer is always on your person, whether driving, at home or at work; while this allows for remote capabilities, it becomes much harder to “switch off”. There are many suggestions on how to improve mental health and achieve work-life balance: get more sleep, exercise, and practice “mindfulness”; but very little in the way of how a lawyer is expected to accomplish this.