Self-Assessment Tools

The links below are provided by our LHL partner, Caba, Inc. The assessments are not meant to diagnose or provide treatment, but are designed to provide more specific information and feedback as you evaluate your own symptoms or those of a family member. The results of these assessments are not sent to the OBA.

• Drugs
• Alcohol
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Gambling
• Stress

Law Blogs

• JD Bliss
• Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips Blog
• Arnie Herz: Legal Sanity

Programs, Studies and Reports on Work/Life Balance Issues

• Facing the Grail, Report of the Boston Bar Association Task Force on Work/Life Balance
• Balanced Hours: Effective Part-time Policies for Washington Law Firms, Report of the Project for Attorney Retention
• Balanced Lives: Changing the Culture of Legal Practice, Report of the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession
• North Carolina Bar Association YLD Work/Life Balance Survey Results
• Oklahoma County Bar Association Report on the Survey: Work/Life Balance in the Legal Profession
• Harvard Law School Program on the Legal Profession
• Work/Life Law, a Program of the American University Washington College of Law

Suggested Readings

• Beyond the Billable Hour, a newsletter about work/life balance for attorneys by Ellen Ostrow, Ph.D., available by subscription at www.lawyerslifecoach.com.
• My Last Lecture: Unsolicited Advice for Future and Current Lawyers 56 S.C.L. Rev.229(2004), by Stephen D. Easton
• Transforming Practices: Finding Joy and Satisfaction in the Legal Life, by Steven Keeva, available at http www.transformingpractices.com.