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  • Lo♥︎ing Legal Life: Overcoming fear of failure

    • 4 Nov 2016
    • Richard Simmons

    This week, systemic coach Zita Tulyahikayo and barrister James Pereira QC discuss the negative impact of fear of failure and how to overcome it.

  • Lo♥︎ing Legal Life: Want to feel better? Change your diet!

    • 20 Oct 2016
    • The Lawyer

    This week, systemic coach Zita Tulyahikayo and barrister James Pereira QC explain the relationship between mood and food, and how better digestive health can enhance and support wellbeing and brain function.

  • World Mental Health Day: Common warning signs to look out for in colleagues

    • 9 Oct 2016
    • The Lawyer

    We all have mental health just as we have physical health, but it can seem more difficult to spot the signs of mental ill health. Former City law firm partner Richard Martin, who following serious mental health illness changed career to advise workplaces on mental wellbeing, tells his story.

  • Lo♥︎ing legal life: How to communicate calmly during conflict

    • 6 Oct 2016
    • The Lawyer

    This week, systemic coach Zita Tulyahikayo and barrister James Pereira QC look at how we can manage our emotions and the way we communicate in order to remain calm and resolve conflict in a less stressful way.

  • Lo♥︎ing Legal Life: why it’s important to challenge your beliefs

    • 22 Sep 2016
    • The Lawyer

    Systemic coach Zita Tulyahikayo and barrister James Pereira QC consider how successful change requires us to challenge our beliefs and build on the future rather than the past.

  • Lo♥︎ing Legal Life: Beating the post-holiday blues

    • 8 Sep 2016
    • The Lawyer

    Wish you were still on holiday? Then it’s time for change! In this first article in their fortnightly column on well-being in the law, systemic coach Zita Tulyahikayo and barrister James Pereira QC invite you to use the post-holiday period to start the process of change to reinvigorate your life and its approach to work.

  • The long read: Is being a lawyer good for you?

    • 1 Sep 2016
    • The Lawyer

    Is being a lawyer good for you? That’s easy isn’t it? It’s going to be about stress. Everyone knows too much stress is bad for you and lawyers work too hard.

  • Lawyers release videos talking about tackling mental health issues

    • 15 May 2016
    • Richard Simmons

    Two lawyers have founded an organisation designed to help lawyers sustain their mental health.

  • Stress in Law: Part 2 – Seven simple steps to make things better

    • 3 May 2016
    • The Lawyer

    In Part Two of their three-part series, Systemic Coach Zita Tulyahikayo and leading barrister James Pereira QC discuss simple steps that can be taken in daily life to alleviate stress, and the need for deeper insights in order to bring about lasting change.

  • Stress in Law: Part 1 – Understanding your relationship with stress

    • 20 Apr 2016
    • The Lawyer

    Systemic coach and therapist Zita Tulyahikayo and leading barrister James Pereira QC explain the signs of stress related trauma and the need to uncover and challenge norms of working life within the legal profession, in the first of a three part series on improving performance by pro-actively managing stress.

  • Balancing work with parenthood

    • 4 Apr 2016
    • Ruth Fenton

    Balancing work with parenthood

  • Lawyers have worst mental health of all professionals

    • 10 Mar 2016
    • Richard Simmons

    “Lawyers suffer from significantly lower levels of psychological and psychosomatic health wellbeing than other professionals,” a new study in Australia has found.

  • Tis the season to be jolly - a message from LawCare

    • 15 Dec 2015
    • The Lawyer

    Many of us look forward to Christmas and the excitement it brings but this is not the case for everyone.

  • Number of lawyers seeking Cognitive Behavioural Therapy rockets

    • 10 Nov 2015
    • The Lawyer

    It wasn’t the kind of trend you could miss. Since August, we have seen a sharp increase in the number of lawyers seeking Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) at our clinics.

  • Nabarro rolls out agile working following successful trial

    • 5 Nov 2015
    • Jonathon Manning

    Nabarro has permanently launched agile working across its business following a trial that found 92 per cent of people felt they were more productive when working at home.

  • How firms can do more to help newly qualified solicitors

    • 6 Sep 2015
    • Ruth Fenton

    With September now here many trainees are taking up positions as newly-qualified solicitors. It’s an exciting time for most trainees - finally, after years of studying and hard work they have achieved their goal.

  • Three in four lawyers burnt out

    • 30 Jul 2015
    • Becky Waller-Davies

    Nearly three in every four lawyers are suffering from burnout or worried about the condition, a survey of 1,000 lawyers has revealed.