City of Philadelphia - File #: 240443

• File #: 240443
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: ADOPTED
• File created: 5/9/2024
• In control: CITY COUNCIL
• Final action: 5/9/2024
• Title: Recognizing the week of May 6-10, 2024 as Well-Being Week in Law in the City of Philadelphia.
• Sponsors: Councilmember Young, Councilmember O'Rourke, Councilmember O'Neill, Councilmember Lozada, Councilmember Thomas, Councilmember Harrity, Councilmember Brooks, Councilmember Phillips, Council President Johnson, Councilmember Gilmore Richardson

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
5/9/2024	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar
5/9/2024	0	CITY COUNCIL	ADOPTED

Title

Recognizing the week of May 6-10, 2024 as Well-Being Week in Law in the City of Philadelphia.

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WHEREAS, Well-Being Week in Law is an initiative of the Institute for Well-Being in Law that takes place the first week of May every year to raise awareness about mental health and encourage action across the legal profession; and

WHEREAS, National Lawyer Well-Being Week was devised after the 2016 ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco to improve the legal profession’s state of health; and

WHEREAS, National Lawyer Well-Being Week purposely coincides with Mental Health Awareness Month in recognition of the unacceptably high number of attorneys with anxiety, mental illnesses and drinking problems; and

WHEREAS, Sustaining a sense of well-being can be difficult for lawyers because they have a pivotal role in shaping the political and social landscape; and

WHEREAS, The task force on Lawyer Well-Being places the legal profession eighth in terms of occupational suicides; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, That the week of May 6-10, 2024 as Well-Being Week in Law in the City of Philadelphia as we acknowledge the mental health struggles that undergird the legal profession.