BLOOMBERG LAW — If there’s ever a time for lawyers to go over the deep end, this might be the moment. Stressed, isolated, and overworked throughout the pandemic, lawyers are now facing the uncertainties of going back to the office. And looming in our collective consciousness is the prospect of a world at war. Certainly, there’s no shortage of reports that lawyers’ mental health is in jeopardy. Recently, Bloomberg Law’s Attorney Workload and Hours survey reported that lawyers experienced burnout in their job more than half the time during the fourth quarter of 2021. But even before the pandemic, lawyers’ well-being has been in crisis mode. In 2017, the American Bar Association’s National Task Force on Lawyer Well Being issued a major study that found that lawyers suffered much greater rates of depression, anxiety, and alcohol abuse than the general population. For lawyers in Big Law, in particular, all of that rings true. Indeed, it’s so ingrained in our consciousness that lawyers are some of the saddest, loneliest, most troubled people on Planet Earth that it’s hard to believe they can be otherwise.