The eDiscovery community is experiencing a mental health crisis that can and should be solved by senior stakeholders who control the economic foundations of our industry. Poor mental health has a number of potential taproots; indeed, mental health in the legal industry as a whole is problematic.
There is, however, something unique about eDiscovery that we, as a group, can address: the manner in which our contracts dictate the burden placed upon each of our workers, regardless of status or role. While many employers and organizations focus on mental-health and self-care steps that individual employees can take, the goal of the Mind Budget Connection and this paper is to focus on industry-wide structural issues that front-line workers cannot themselves control.
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