Eight out of ten lawyers in Spain and Portugal want the
profession to do more to address the issue of mental health with
large workloads seen as a factor in cases of depression and
suicide
It's time to talk about mental health and well-being in the
legal profession. The overwhelming majority of lawyers working at
firms in Spain and Portugal believe the profession is not doing
enough to tackle this issue, according to a new survey conducted by
Iberian Lawyer. It's certainly not an issue that should be
ignored – participants in our study spoke of colleagues they
have known who, plagued by depression, ended up taking their own
lives. Mental health is, of course, an incredibly complex subject
and any problems suffered by lawyers may not necessarily be caused
by the work they do. However, the vast majority of respondents to
our survey said they believed "a large workload" was the
most common cause of the mental health problems they, or their
colleagues, had suffered. The
