The Human Side of Legal: Prioritizing Well-being in Fast-Paced Teams

Burnout in in-house legal is no longer an outlier story. It is a leadership and operational issue. When senior lawyers burn out quietly, organizations lose institutional knowledge before they lose the person. When workload is never formally reviewed, the default answer to every request stays yes, until it doesn’t.

Join us on Wednesday, May 20, 2026, at 12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT as Akshay Verma, Chief Operating Officer at SpotDraft, Dr. Steven MacGregor, CEO at General Counsel Wellbeing Network, Kevin Burwell, General Counsel at Kloeckner Metals and John R. Kormanik, Mindset Coach for Lawyers for a practical, senior-level conversation on how legal leaders can get ahead of this pattern. The session will cover how to identify structural risk in your team, how to set and defend workload boundaries and how to make the business case for well-being investment in terms that resonate with finance and the C-suite.

Key takeaways include:

• Diagnosing workload risk before people leave: how to conduct a workload audit and what signals to watch for at the leadership level specifically
• Why wellness programs miss leaders: what structural support actually looks like for GCs and senior counsel, versus generic team initiatives
• Psychological safety beyond open-door policies: specific approaches to surfacing problems early, before they become retention events
• Setting boundaries without damaging relationships: how to push back on low-value work, manage internal client expectations, and use automation as genuine relief
• The retention and business case: how to frame well-being as operational risk, calculate the cost of losing senior talent, and present metrics that resonate with CFOs
• One concrete commitment: the session closes with a structured exercise: one action to take in the next 30 days, and one practice to stop in 2026

Who Should Attend:

This program is designed for General Counsel, Deputy General Counsel, Heads of Legal, Senior In-House Counsel, Legal Operations Leaders, and other senior members of legal teams who carry responsibility for team performance and retention.

There is NO COST to attend this program!

This program is FREE, thanks to our sponsor, SpotDraft. Can’t make it to the live program? The recording will be available in our Free Video Library.