Depression In The Profession: Lawyers Give Their Insight

In this article by ABA Journal, Managing Principal of Sodoma Law, Nicole Sodoma, is featured giving her opinion of why so many law students and lawyers are suffering psychologically because of their profession. Dina Roth Port, writer of the article, reports that statistics are showing high percentages of law students and lawyers having depression, anxiety, and are abusing substances such as alcohol from the weight of the student debt and personal accountability and responsibility that comes with practicing law. Read Nicole Sodoma’s and other lawyers’ opinions on the matter in Dina’s article.