We are the precedent.
The premier trauma-responsive legal wellness organization. 40+ lawyers, judges, physicians, and psychologists dedicated to restoring and sustaining the people who uphold our nation's legal system. We address the toxic stress and burnout our profession has learned to treat as normal. Serving legal professionals nationwide, in person and online.
Toxic stress, burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and substance use are not character flaws. They are occupational hazards of a profession that carries extraordinary weight. Peer-reviewed research on secondary traumatic stress in attorneys and the landmark ABA and Hazelden Betty Ford study have made this undeniable. The question is no longer whether the crisis is real. It is whether your firm, your courthouse, or your career will address it before it addresses you.
of attorneys experience symptoms of depression
Krill, Johnson & Albert, J. Addiction Medicine (2016) ↗experience symptoms of anxiety, with stress affecting 23%
Krill, Johnson & Albert, J. Addiction Medicine (2016) ↗screen positive for hazardous or harmful drinking, far above comparable professions
Krill, Johnson & Albert, J. Addiction Medicine (2016) ↗Our nationally recognized experts don't just understand burnout, they too have lived the unique pressures of your high-stakes profession.
Our proof is in our clients: healthier professionals, stronger organizations, and sustainable practices that keep professionals in the work they chose.
The irony explains itself: professionals who dedicate their lives to protecting others often lack strategies to protect themselves from the harm inherent in their work.
Book a Discovery Call →High turnover, compromised client care, substance use, and careers cut short. This is something beyond burnout. It is talented attorneys leaving the profession, impaired judgment in critical moments, and a legal system weakened by the very people it depends on.
The ripple effects touch every case, every client, every courthouse.
It shows up as cynicism that hardens into contempt. As the way we get shorter with each other, sharper in the hallway, colder on the email chain. As the crispiness we carry home to the people we love, the frustration and anger that arrive without warning, the despondency and numbness that no longer lift with a weekend or a vacation. This is the part no one names, and it is exactly the part All Of Us, our flagship program, was built to address.
Attorney Wellness Project was founded on a simple but powerful premise: the people best qualified to help lawyers are lawyers. Our faculty are not observers of the legal profession. They are members of it. Judges who have sat on the bench for decades. Physicians who have treated attorney patients for thirty years. Psychologists who have spent careers researching secondary trauma in courtrooms.
Our faculty have carried the caseloads, sat on the bench, and treated the patients. When you work with Attorney Wellness Project, you work with people who pair scientific and clinical depth with the lived experience of the work itself. Our programs meet the legal profession where it lives, in its language, its culture, and its ethics, backed by the most credentialed expert bench in the field.
Billable hours won't pay for your wellbeing.
Meet Our TeamLawyers work with traumatized people, in criminal courts, family courts, immigration proceedings, and civil matters built on the worst day of someone's life. A trauma-responsive lawyer understands what trauma does to a client's memory, disclosure, and decision-making, and what cumulative exposure does to the lawyer's own nervous system.
That understanding changes outcomes: better client communication, better testimony preparation, better self-regulation under pressure, and a durable career.
From individual coaching to firm-wide transformation, every program is designed specifically for the legal mind.
Accredited continuing legal education in trauma awareness, secondary stress, vicarious trauma, and professional resilience. Approved across multiple state bars. Full and half-day formats available.
CLE Accredited · Multiple jurisdictionsA rigorous credential for attorneys who want deep understanding of how trauma operates in legal practice, and how to work more effectively with traumatized clients, colleagues, and courts.
Professional CredentialOne-on-one and cohort coaching for lawyers and judges, led by physicians, psychologists, burnout experts, and practicing and retired judges and attorneys who know this work from the inside. Built to combat cynicism, disconnection, and a dysregulated nervous system, not just talk about them.
For individuals & small groupsFirm-level and courthouse workshops led by psychologists, physicians, and practicing attorneys. Customized to your practice area, culture, and organizational goals. In-person and virtual.
For firms & courts · CustomizableImmersive multi-day programs combining clinical support, reflective practice, peer connection, and professional renewal. Designed for high-functioning professionals at the edge of their capacity.
Multi-day · ImmersiveConferences, bar association symposia, and expert panels that establish your organization as a leader in legal wellness. We are the convening authority for trauma-responsive practice in law.
For bar associations & institutionsFrom associates navigating their first trauma case to senior partners managing decades of accumulated stress.
Enterprise programs that reduce malpractice risk, increase retention, and build a culture that attracts exceptional talent.
Judges, magistrates, and court personnel who carry the weight of every decision, every day, with almost no support system designed for them.
The attorneys and investigators inside federal agencies and general counsel offices, carrying public-sector caseloads with private-sector intensity.
The frequently overlooked professionals absorbing trauma across language barriers, in every courtroom, often without recognition or support.
What legal professionals say after working with AWP.
Talking about trauma on the bench is nothing new. It is rare to find training that combines the depth of content and instructors presenting in a way that it actually resonated and felt like something we could talk about and address.
The methodology was rigorous yet felt deeply human and familiar. I have attended countless judicial trainings, but never one that gave me practical, repeatable techniques to de-escalate stress and build sustainable resilience. The faculty's expertise is unparalleled.
The depth of content exceeded my expectations. By far the best CLE I attended in the past few years, and was one that I registered as a one-off. Original and authentic and compelling speakers.
They really understood the secondary trauma we interpreters experience each time we are working. I left with more hope.
I've changed how I lead my team. Understanding the symptoms of secondary trauma in a workplace context shifted how all of us work together and we are in a more positive place.
The small-group discussions with other attorneys were invaluable. A year later and we all still keep in touch.
Whether you are a solo practitioner at your limit, a firm ready to build a culture of wellness, or a court system looking to protect its people, every engagement starts with a conversation. Even if we are not the right fit for your organization, we can often help point you toward what you need. We treat every consultation with discretion and confidentiality.
All consultations are confidential · We work with firms, courts, government agencies, and bar associations