Wellbeing Excellence Awards

Nominations are being accepted in four categories:

• Legal Employer Wellbeing Excellence Award– Private Sector (Law Firms, In-House Legal Departments, and Private Legal Organizations)
• Legal Employer Wellbeing Excellence Award – Public Sector (Government Agencies, Courts, Nonprofits, and Legal Services Organizations)
• Leadership in Wellbeing Excellence Award– Private Sector
• Leadership in Wellbeing Excellence Award – Public Sector

Please submit your nominations by July 24th for consideration.

Legal Employer Wellbeing Excellence Awards:

We will recognize two legal employers that have demonstrated an exceptional commitment to fostering employee wellbeing, psychological safety, and a healthy workplace culture. Nominees should demonstrate meaningful efforts to support attorney and staff wellbeing, including burnout prevention strategies, flexible workplace practices, inclusive culture-building initiatives, leadership engagement, professional development opportunities, and innovative wellbeing programming.

Private Sector Award: Consideration will be given to organizations that have embedded wellbeing into organizational values and demonstrated measurable or sustained positive impact on employees, including increased use of mental health resources and recovery support.

Public Sector Award: Consideration will be given to organizations that engaged innovative strategies despite the unique demands and resource constraints often present in public service environments.

Leadership Wellbeing Excellence Awards:

We will recognize two leaders who have demonstrated an exceptional commitment to advancing employee wellbeing, psychological safety, and a healthy workplace culture within their organizations. Nominees should demonstrate leadership in promoting and inspiring or implementing progress of attorney and staff wellbeing through advocacy, culture-building, mentorship, burnout prevention efforts, support for mental health and recovery, and a visible commitment to creating a healthy and supportive workplace environment.

Private Sector Leader Award: Consideration will be given to a leader in a managerial or administrator role who has implemented or inspired policies that have positively impacted employee wellbeing or been successfully incorporated into a supportive work environment.

Public Sector Leader Award: Consideration will be given to a leader in a managerial or administrator role, or who has otherwise implemented or inspired policies that produced innovative strategies despite the unique stresses, and resource constraints often present in public service environments.

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Sponsor the Brink Dinner  |  Stomp Out Stigma

Sponsorship is about solidarity and visibly supporting wellbeing in the legal profession, which includes recovery from mental health crises and addiction.

For additional opportunities to fight stigma and support legal wellbeing, join our Stomp Out Stigma (SOS) campaign by becoming a Brink Dinner sponsor.

LCL announced our “Stomp Out Stigma” campaign at OUR ANNUAL Brink Dinner IN September 2025.

In 2023, the NORC study surveyed Massachusetts lawyers about burnout, depression, anxiety, suicidality, and substance use. The results revealed critical concerns within the profession: 42% of lawyers reported hazardous or unhealthy alcohol use, yet only 2% reported seeking help. Additionally, 21% reported depression, 77% reported feeling burnout, 26% reported anxiety, and 7% reported having thoughts of suicide.

The most commonly reported barriers to seeking help were stigma, lack of time, and fear of punitive consequences — with stigma emerging as the most significant. These findings make clear that stigma remains one of the greatest obstacles preventing lawyers from getting the support they need.

That is why we launched our campaign: “Stomp Out Stigma”. At LCL, we believe that one of the most powerful ways to fight stigma is to stand with those who experience it. Sometimes, stigma arises not from others but from our own self-talk — the quiet doubts and judgments we turn inward. By standing together and speaking openly about mental health and substance use, we can replace silence with support and give one another renewed courage to seek help and to offer it.

Join us and lend your voice to helping us “Stomp Out Stigma”. If you have a story of recovery to share and you are interested in participating on a panel, please contact Amy Levine, Director of Programs & Volunteers amy@lclma.org.

stand with us and show your support BY PURCHASING our limited edition merch.