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5. International Bar Association, Mental Wellbeing in
the Legal Profession: A Global Study (October 2021)
1 at 31, online: <www.ibanet.org/document?id= IBA-
report-Mental-Wellbeing-in-the-Legal-Profession-AGlobal
Study>.
6. Jonathan Koltai, Scott Schieman & Ronit Dinovitzer,
“The Status-Health Paradox: Organizational Context,
Stress Exposure, and Well-being in the Legal
Profession” (2018) 59:1 Journal of Health and
Social Behavior 20.
7. Barreau du Québec, “Study of Factors Affecting the
Mental Health of Québec Lawyers in the Workplace
– Study Summary: Highlights”, online: <www.barreau.
gc.ca/media/2416/sommaire-sante-psychologi
que-travail-avocats-anglais.pdf>. A national study
into the well-being of legal professionals is ongoing,
also with lead researcher Dr. Nathalie Cadieux: Law
Society of Ontario, “Law Society Participates in
National Well-Being Study of Legal Professionals” (7
June 2021), online: <www.lso.ca/news-events/
news/latest-news-2021/law-society-participates-innational
study-on-well>.
8. Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, “Mental
Health in Canada: COVID-19 and Beyond” (July
2020), online: <www.camh.ca/-/media/files/pdfs
—-public-policy-submissions/covid-and-mh-policypaper
pdf.pdf>.
9. Ibid.
10. See e.g. Angus Reid Institute, “COVID at Two: Vast
Majorities Say the Pandemic Has Pulled Canadians
Apart, Brought Out the Worst in People” (10 March
2022), online: <www.angusreid.org/covid-19-twoyear
anniversary>.
11. Law Society of Ontario, “Mental Health Strategy Task
Force – Final Report to Convocation” (28 April
2016), 335 at 336, 343, online: <lawsocietyontario.
azureedge.net/media/lso/media/lso/media/legacy/
pdf/c/convocation-april-2016-mental-health.pdf>.
12. Ibid at 343.
13. Ipsos, “Mental Illnesses Increasingly Recognized as
Disability, but Stigma Persists” (24 September 2019),
online: <www.ipsos.com/en-ca/news-polls/Mental-
Illness-Increasingly-Recognized-as-Disability>.
14. LAWPRO Magazine, supra note 3 at 7.
15. The Barreau du Québec study, mentioned above,
found that litigation was the practice area with the
highest proportion of psychological distress: supra
note 7 at 3.
16. While there are undoubtedly collegiality, mentoring
and productivity benefits to working in the office at
least some of the time, there are also mental health
benefits to working from home, which allows us to
avoid the stress of long commutes, fulfill childcare
and elder care responsibilities more easily and look
after our personal needs and obligations. A firm’s
mental health committee might consider how working
from home would help address the needs of all
lawyers, including those experiencing mental health
challenges.
17. See e.g. Megan Seto, “Killing Ourselves: Depression
as an Institutional, Workplace and Professionalism
Problem” (2012) 2:2 UWO J Leg Stud 5, online:
<ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1053&
context=uqojls>.
18. 2021 amendments to the Ontario Employment Standards
Act require certain businesses to have a “Right
to Disconnect Policy”. It appears that this legislation
does not create a right to disconnect, but simply
requires certain employers have a policy: Employment
Standards Act, 2000, SO 2000, c 41, Part
VII.0.1.
19. On microaggressions generally, see e.g. Derald
Wing Sue & Lisa Spanierman, Microaggressions in
Everyday Life: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation
(Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2020).
20. See e.g. Lindsay Scott & Janani Shanmuganathan,
“Virtual Litigation Through the Eyes of Racialized
Women Advocates” (Spring 2022) 40:4 Adv J 18.
21. See e.g. Ruchika Tulshyan & Jodi-Ann Burey, “Stop
Telling Women They Have Imposter Syndrome”, Harvard
Business Review (11 February 2021), online:
<www.hbr.org/2021/02/stop-telling-women-they-
have-imposter-syndrome>.
22. See e.g. Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology
of Success (New York: Random House, 2006).
23. See e.g. Owen Kelly, “Coping with Stress and Avoiding
Burnout: Techniques for Lawyers”, Canadian Bar
Association (13 October 2009), online: <www.cba.
org/Publications-Resources/CBA-Practice-Link/
Work-Life-Balance/Health-Wellness/Coping-with-
Stress-and-Avoiding-Burnout-Techniques>. See also
Erin H Durant, It Burned Me All Down: A Self-Reflection
on Big Law, Burnout, Mental Health and How to
Build an Environment to Support a High-Performing
and Healthy Workforce (Durant Barristers, 2022).
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