Protect the people and future of your firm with the Well-Being Index—the only validated, anonymous assessment that pinpoints distress risk across 6 dimensions in under 60 seconds. Invented by Mayo Clinic and trusted by more than 1,000 organizations worldwide.
Independent national research has confirmed what every managing partner and general counsel already suspects: the legal profession sits among the most distressed populations in the modern workforce—and the financial, ethical, and reputational consequences are now too large to leave unmeasured.
Compared with roughly 8% in the general U.S. adult population.
Far exceeding rates seen in physicians, surgeons, and the broader workforce.
Recruiting, training, lost productivity, and client transition costs per departure.
Younger attorneys—first ten years of practice—carry the highest burden.
Impaired well-being correlates with the precise failures your malpractice carrier and bar counsel care about most: missed deadlines, deteriorating client communication, judgment errors, and disciplinary complaints. The ABA House of Delegates has formally called for systematic measurement and intervention as a duty of competent practice.
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Talk to a Well-Being Index ExpertAnnual engagement surveys, ad-hoc pulse polls, and EAP utilization reports were never designed to detect distress. They miss the dimensions that drive turnover, complaints, and crisis—because they were never validated to find them.
"To be a good lawyer, one has to be a healthy lawyer. Sadly, our profession is falling short when it comes to well-being."The Path to Lawyer Well-Being Report of the National Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being (ABA, CoLAP, NOBC & allied bar organizations), August 2017
A four-step process designed for legal organizations that need clean data, defensible anonymity, and a fast path from baseline to intervention to measurable result.
License the validated Well-Being Index. Name your assessment, set a collection window, and define anonymous segments—practice group, office, cohort, or level.
You decide who receives the link—attorneys, paralegals, staff, or any combination. Each participant gets a private link and completes 9 questions in under a minute on any device.
Your dashboard surfaces results by segment and dimension, benchmarked against national norms. See who's thriving, who's struggling, and which dimensions are driving the picture.
Run the assessment quarterly, semi-annually, or alongside any initiative. The Well-Being Journey view tracks every dimension and segment over time—so committee reports and board updates are anchored in data, not anecdote.
Each dimension was identified and validated through years of Mayo Clinic research as an independent predictor of professional and personal consequence. Together they describe the full clinical picture that a one-dimensional burnout score will always miss.
Whether your lawyers experience their practice as purposeful, or as a job they're enduring. The leading indicator of engagement and retention.
Emotional exhaustion and depersonalization—the dimensions most correlated with turnover intent and client-service deterioration.
Beyond tired: the depleted state that compromises judgment, deadline reliability, and the quality of advocacy.
The dimension your associates are quietly evaluating their offers against. Directly linked to retention and lateral-move intent.
Mental and physical quality of life—measured against normative national data so you can interpret what your firm's number actually means.
The dimension every other survey leaves out, in a profession with documented elevated risk. Measured anonymously, against clinical thresholds.
The leaders accountable for the future of legal work each ask a different question of the data. The Well-Being Index is built to answer all three.
Quantify the risk inside your hardest-to-quantify asset. Anchor retention and succession conversations in clinical-grade evidence rather than anecdote. Prove to your board, your malpractice carrier, and your clients that you measure—and manage—what matters.
Replace anecdotal pulse-checks with a tool that has years of peer-reviewed validation behind it. Make targeted, defensible investment decisions—and prove their ROI quarter over quarter in dimensions the executive committee will recognize.
Offer your membership a validated, anonymous measurement standard. Aggregate de-identified data across your network to inform CLE programming, lawyer assistance programs, and policy advocacy at state and national levels.
Most firms are already running something. The question isn't whether to measure; it's whether your current instrument is built for the answers you actually need.
Inside a regulated profession, the instrument you use to measure people's distress had better hold up to scrutiny. The Well-Being Index does—repeatedly, in peer-reviewed literature.
Published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (August 2016) by Dyrbye, Satele, and Shanafelt, this study confirms the Well-Being Index as a validated assessment tool for predicting risk of distress in the general U.S. working population, including legal professionals.
The questions a managing partner, general counsel, or director of attorney well-being will want answered before bringing this to a committee.
Yes—and there is no credit card, no procurement form, and no commitment required. Every prospective client gets full demo-account access populated with realistic live demo data, so you can navigate the dashboard, run an aggregate report, simulate launching a campaign, and see exactly what your firm's view would look like before you ever sign anything.
No. The Well-Being Index is a fully browser-based application—nothing to download, install, or run on your firm's network. Attorneys and staff take the assessment on any device (laptop, tablet, phone), and administrators access the dashboard from any modern browser. No IT deployment, no endpoint footprint, no security review of installed software.
Architecturally—not by promise. Individual responses are never visible to administrators, partners, or even the vendor. The platform enforces minimum response thresholds before any segment is displayed, so a small practice group can't be back-calculated to an individual. Participants control whether to receive resources via their private account; firm leadership only ever sees aggregated, de-identified results.
Whichever populations you choose. A license can cover attorneys only, attorneys plus paralegals, or the full firm including administrative staff—segmented by practice group, office, level, or any custom dimension you define. The Well-Being Index is validated for the general U.S. workforce, so the same instrument applies across every role at your organization.
Most organizations are live within a week of signing. Setup is self-administered (no certified consultant required), and your team configures the campaign, populations, segments, and reminder cadence in the administrator console. SSO and roster imports are supported for firms of any size.
Every respondent's score is placed on the Distressed → Thriving continuum, and aggregate results are benchmarked against normative national workforce data. Your dashboard shows distribution across the four bands, side-by-side comparison across your own segments, and trend over time when you run the assessment repeatedly.
Pricing scales by population size and license duration, with options for single-campaign engagements and ongoing annual licenses. The most efficient way to get an accurate quote—including a tailored ROI model against your firm's attrition costs—is a 30-minute executive demo with our team.
Yes. State and specialty bars, CoLAP networks, and lawyer assistance programs use validated assessment to offer members anonymous self-measurement, aggregate de-identified data across the membership, and inform CLE programming, advocacy, and well-being policy at state and national levels. Talk to us about the membership-network licensing structure.
What gets measured, gets managed—and the legal organizations leading this decade are the ones turning well-being into a data-driven conversation instead of a hopeful one. Join more than 1,000 organizations already using the Well-Being Index to quantify distress, target interventions, and prove what worked.
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