Minnesota Lawyer Highlights the Benefits of Faegre Drinker’s Employee Well-Being Program

In a recent article for the Minnesota Lawyer, Minneapolis office leader Lica Tomizuka and Well-Being Program Advisor and Therapist Ali Schroer discussed the firm’s well-being program. The firm was recently selected as a winner of the American Lawyer’s inaugural “Corporate Culture and Wellbeing” award for this program.

As part of Faegre Drinker’s well-being program, Schroer discussed how she provides individual counseling, providing an "upstream" approach to mental health. If individual circumstances warrant, she strives to "help legal professionals manage their energy and not just manage their time." That includes "trying to help them find things that bring them joy but don't interfere with the amount of time they do need to work." She also provides coaching on how to have a courageous conversation within teams using techniques like therapeutic listening "listening first and asking questions with an open-minded perspective."

The counseling program has helped Faegre Drinker's EAP maintain a utilization rate of about 6.5%, compared with an industry average of 1% to 2%, Tomizuka said.

The full article is available to Minnesota Lawyer subscribers.