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Happy Welcome to Law School, or Back to Law School, or Back to Work September, and the living is easy…. Wait—that was summer, when the living is easy.

Labour Day and Lawyering Today’s blog is short because I hope that most recipients will be winding down towards their long weekend by the time that our newsletter arrives on their...

Confidential but Collaborative One of the most important messages Assist delivers to the Alberta legal community is that we are independent from other organizations, in particular, the Law Society of Alberta....

Public Service Announcement: Grief and Legacy Contacts Today’s blog is more of a public service announcement than a conventional piece about well-being issues in the legal profession.

Overachievers Anonymous Many of us play Wordle, a word game published by the New York times each day.

Even Lawyers Get the Twisties Is anyone else enjoying the Olympics, ideally watching from an air-conditioned or well-ventilated location? I don’t watch sports very much, but I am an Olympics fanatic....

Blue Summers—Part 2  Last week, we talked about feeling blue, or experiencing stress, distress or crisis, during summer, a season that is generally perceived as a happy time of year.

Blue Summers—Part 1 Summer—a time when we think about vacations, picnics and enjoying the great outdoors. But mental health conditions, like depression, anxiety and burnout, do not take vacations.

Assist and the Choice of Counsel(lor) As lawyers, most of us believe that choice of counsel is an important principle in our justice system-- when individuals, particularly in criminal proceedings, have...

Welcome Summer and Welcome New Students and Lawyers It has been an unusual spring. Edmontonians, along with many other Albertans (i. e.