From an ABA Press release:

“The American Bar Association, through its Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs (CoLAP), and Krill Strategies, a Pittsburgh-based legal advisory firm, released a new nationwide study on lawyer mental health and burnout that updates a 10-year old benchmark and reveals substantial distress, burnout and risky alcohol use within the legal sector.

. . .

Approximately one-fifth of lawyers in the current study meet thresholds for moderate-to-extremely severe symptoms on each subscale, indicating potentially clinically meaningful distress in a substantial portion of the profession:

• Depression: 21.7%
• Anxiety: 20.4%
• Stress: 18.9%
• . . .
• The new study, titled “When Demands Equal Distress: An Updated Understanding of Lawyer Mental Health and Well-being,” was authored by Patrick R. Krill, J.D., LLM., M.A. and Justin J. Anker, Ph.D., from the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Minnesota Medical School. The data were weighted to reflect the profession’s demographic composition using the ABA’s 2024 National Lawyer Population Survey.
• The full study is published open access in the Journal of Affective Disorders and can be accessed here. Information on the report also can be found here.”