Sep 16, 2026 · 18 min · 10 segments
Attorneys often face complicated ethical questions and consequences for making missteps — even if their unethical actions are unintentional. In the September episode of MiLawyer Podcast, Erica…
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And I'm also hearing you talk about the importance of delegation, you know, instead of taking everything on yourself, learning to use your staff and to trust them.
I'm wondering if we could talk a little bit about patterns between kind of missed deadlines or communication breakdowns and how those might tie into mental overload and then how that can lead to discipline.
If you're having too much on your plate, if you're taking on too many clients, or if saying no is really important in your practice, a lot of times you have that gut feeling when a client calls that maybe this just isn't the right fit, or maybe this is going to be more than I can take on.
But if you're trying to build your practice and you're trying to do all these things, you say yes, maybe.
And then you end up underwater because this one client is taking up so much of your time or...
You just have too much going on that other things fall through the cracks as well.
And, you know, so many times, especially in reinstatement cases, when you look back, what was the root cause of everything that caused everything to go downhill? And I really can't think of an example where there wasn't a mental health struggle that wasn't being dealt with or a substance abuse problem that was kind of lingering in the background as well.
Yeah, and so research shows that between 40 and 70% of all disciplinary proceedings are directly related to an untreated mental health condition.
I think those are just the folks coming in who can acknowledge that that's what's going on and even have the awareness to know that that's what's going on.
So I would put that at higher, but I think those are excellent, excellent points.
Yeah, a lot of times until they even go through the reinstatement process, they don't have that realization that, okay, back then this is what I was struggling with.
And that's why I love reinstatement cases because the ones that are successful, you really watch how much they've grown and changed over however long it's been.
And I'm also hearing you talk about the importance of delegation, you know, instead of taking everything on yourself, learning to use your staff and to trust them.
I'm wondering if we could talk a little bit about patterns between kind of missed deadlines or communication breakdowns and how those might tie into mental overload and then how that can lead to discipline.
If you're having too much on your plate, if you're taking on too many clients, or if saying no is really important in your practice, a lot of times you have that gut feeling when a client calls that maybe this just isn't the right fit, or maybe this is going to be more than I can take on.
But if you're trying to build your practice and you're trying to do all these things, you say yes, maybe.
And then you end up underwater because this one client is taking up so much of your time or...
You just have too much going on that other things fall through the cracks as well.
And, you know, so many times, especially in reinstatement cases, when you look back, what was the root cause of everything that caused everything to go downhill? And I really can't think of an example where there wasn't a mental health struggle that wasn't being dealt with or a substance abuse problem that was kind of lingering in the background as well.
Yeah, and so research shows that between 40 and 70% of all disciplinary proceedings are directly related to an untreated mental health condition.
I think those are just the folks coming in who can acknowledge that that's what's going on and even have the awareness to know that that's what's going on.
So I would put that at higher, but I think those are excellent, excellent points.
Yeah, a lot of times until they even go through the reinstatement process, they don't have that realization that, okay, back then this is what I was struggling with.
And that's why I love reinstatement cases because the ones that are successful, you really watch how much they've grown and changed over however long it's been.
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