Work/Life Balance  Internet Resources

To help lawyers navigate the vast resources on work/life balance, here is a list of Web sites recommended by the Oklahoma Bar Association’s Work/Life Balance Committee:

JD Bliss Provides resources to attorneys seeking greater career satisfaction and work/life balance and to law firms seeking to improve attorney retention. JD Bliss offers webinars on work/life balance topics. A unique feature of the Web site is a work/life balance calculator, a tool that calculates the impact of billable hours on a lawyer’s personal life.

Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips Blog Jim Calloway, director of the OBA’s Management Assistance Program, offers practical advice and numerous resources about law practice management and the Internet and technology as applicable both to professional and personal needs.

The Center for Work/Life Law University of California Hastings College of Law works to identify and prevent Family Responsibilities Discrimination.

Project for Attorney Retention A Washington D.C.-based organization that has conducted extensive studies of part-time work in law firms and developed best practices recommendations based on these studies.

Legal Sanity A blog that provides practical information, ideas and advice on remaking the everyday practice of law to achieve optimal outcomes, professional and personal success and work/life balance.

Flextime Lawyers A national consulting firm advising law firms, corporations and lawyers on work/life balance.

Lawyers With Depression A Web site created for lawyers with depression by a lawyer with depression. This Web site includes a number of helpful resources for lawyers with depression, including a substantial list of research and interesting articles written about depression.

Ms. JD An online community designed to provide a forum for dialogue and networking among women lawyers and aspiring lawyers. The Web site is founded by female law students from across the country. Bloggers include judges, law school deans and practitioners who have found nontraditional ways to practice law.

Oklahoma Work/Life Balance The OBA committee adopted the slogan, “The Law: Love It, Don’t Leave It,” and its Web site offers a collection of special interest articles, feature stories about Oklahoma lawyers, sample workplace policies that facilitate work/life balance and links to assistance programs for lawyers and judges — including the free crisis counseling service for OBA members.

Top 100 List For additional law-related blogs or “blawgs,” the ABA recently compiled a top 100 list. The blawgs are listed by categories. Specific to work/life balance issues, the list includes a category called, “Your So-Called Life.”