By Managing Partner Forum with Dr. Larry Richard
An MPF Webinar Originally Broadcast on June 2, 2021
Larry is a long-time member of the MPF Faculty and expert on the lawyer personality. As always, we collect and share current data through survey questions and audience polling. Here is some of what we learned:
- Eighty percent (80%) of firm leaders think some of their firms’ lawyers are struggling with impacts of COVID. Ninety-two percent (92%) say they have support staff who are struggling.
- Ninety-three percent (93%) report increased “distractibility” or “anxiety” among their people.
- Seventy-five percent (75%) of firm leaders say they are proactively reaching out to their people to make sure they are doing OK. People living alone and those with young kids are especially vulnerable.
- Providing “social support” is the most beneficial thing law firm leaders can do to mitigate the impacts.
Larry provides excellent guidance for law firm leaders and, already, the session has been featured in Law360 in an article by Aebra Coe entitled “How Firm Leaders Can Ease COVID’s Psychological Impacts.” Click here for the article.
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