ML Well is a unique, holistic approach to promoting thriving through intellectual, physical, emotional, and occupational well-being coupled with an underlying emphasis on engagement and community. Because there is no one-size-fits-all approach to well-being, ML Well aims to enable our lawyers and professional staff to find what uniquely works best for them as individuals.
Part of the ML Well curriculum includes an online portal featuring cutting-edge research, events, and news related to positive psychology, as well as information on our firm's well-being-related policies and benefits. To ensure relevancy, the structure and content of the portal are customized to target resources and events to each employee based on practice group, department, and office location.
One of the inaugural signatories to the American Bar Association’s Pledge on Lawyer Well-Being, our senior leadership took that pledge seriously with various actions and new initiatives, including by creating ML Well and establishing the new role of Chief Engagement Officer, a novel position within law firms.
ML Well recognizes the unique stressors and challenges that come with working in a law firm setting and takes an empirically based approach that promotes strategies and techniques backed by scientific research. This focus on well-being is not only the right thing for our lawyers and professional staff, it is also central to our ability to provide exceptional client service.
In partnership with Caron Treatment Centers, Morgan Lewis is proud to offer regular educational programming on addiction and recovery, including in 2025 seminars on how to support a loved one entering addiction recovery and how to manage the stressful holiday season while in recovery or on a “sober curious” path. This programming serves our goal of destigmatizing conversations around addiction and ensuring our firm personnel have access to counseling resources.
Through a series of innovative webinars, Morgan Lewis provided bespoke educational programming on self-care topics chosen by our own personnel, including sleep hygiene, barriers to fitness, navigating grief and grieving, and nutrition. Many of these programs carry through year over year. We take the next step by bringing our personnel together—even our summer associates—in quarterly global movement challenges that raise funds for nonprofits.
The Morgan Lewis stress management curriculum brings experts together to provide guidance on perfectionism, recognizing anxiety and burnout, leveraging science to manage uncertain times and educating ourselves on the signs of mental health crises in others. These interactive webinars accompany the extensive free one-on-one counseling resources available through our Employee Assistance Program.
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Partners Louise Skinner, Sameer Mohan, and Wendy West Feinstein co-authored an article for The Legal Intelligencer, sharing insights from the ML Well Adventures in Meaningful Work discussion series in celebration of the Institute for Well-being in Law’s annual Well-Being in Law Week.
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Adventures in Meaningful Work: Finding Purpose and Encouraging It in Others
In this installment of our ML Well Adventures in Meaningful Work series, we explore with partner Sameer Mohan the importance of open dialogue, the role of mentorship and feedback, and the value in understanding each other’s perspectives.
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