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Mental Health Within the Legal Profession – Dispelling Myths and Addressing Facts

​​​Jonathan Beitner (President of the Illinois Lawyers’ Assistance Program Associate Board and Associate at Jenner & Block LLP) and Chelsy Castro (Director of Outreach and Clinical Programming at the Lawyers’ Assistance Program) met with law students to talk about mental health, specifically what the statistics show regarding law students’ and practitioners’ mental health and how individuals can take better mental care of themselves.