Press Release – 13 October 2026
LawCare's Life in the Law 2025 research found that half of solicitors have experienced anxiety in the last 12 months, with three in five reporting poor mental wellbeing.
Numbers like that are exactly why four organisations decided that working together, solicitors will have a stronger, more joined-up network of support.
That’s why The Solicitors’ Charity is launching the Solicitor Wellbeing Alliance in partnership with the Law Society, LawCare, and the Mindful Business Charter – a new collaboration bringing together four organisations with a shared ambition: To improve wellbeing across the solicitors’ profession.
The Solicitors' Charity is joining forces with the Law Society, LawCare, and the Mindful Business Charter to launch the Solicitor Wellbeing Alliance – four organisations who each already support the profession in their own way, now pulling in the same direction.
Four partners with shared ambitions
Improve awareness and signposting between organisations, so support is easier to find
Work on shared priorities – achieving together what none can alone
Share insight on the trends and emerging issues affecting solicitor wellbeing
Provide a unified voice, helping to shape healthier workplace cultures across the profession
A more joined-up route to support
The Solicitors' Charity has always taken a whole-person view – supporting emotional, physical, professional and financial wellbeing, tailored to individual need. What the Alliance adds is a better way in. Wherever a solicitor turns first – to us, to LawCare, to the Law Society or to their own firm – the aim is simple: they end up in the right place, faster. And they may need a combination of support from each organisation!
The Law Society President hopes for healthier workplace cultures with easier-to-find support
The Law Society of England and Wales president, Mark Evans, said: "Solicitors face significant wellbeing challenges and no single organisation can tackle them alone. By joining forces, we can raise awareness of the support already available, share expertise and help drive healthier workplace cultures across the profession.
"The Alliance brings together organisations with a shared goal: ensuring solicitors can access the support they need to thrive.
"Over the coming year, Alliance members will work together to develop and deliver practical outputs that improve awareness of support, share learning and help solicitors and legal organisations take positive action on wellbeing."
Nick Gallagher, CEO of The Solicitors’ Charity shared: "Solicitors are used to being the person others rely on. This Alliance is about making sure that when they need support themselves, it's easy to find – and that they're never having to look for it alone. We're proud to be part of a collaboration that's finally joining up to make that happen."
Solicitors give so much of themselves to other people. This Alliance means there's more, and easier, support ready for them in return. Find out more about the Law Society's wellbeing hub or read LawCare's Life in the Law 2025 research.
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More information on The Solicitors’ Charity
The Solicitors’ Charity provides comprehensive support to improve the wellbeing of solicitors, helping them to overcome life’s challenges.
People approach the charity for help for all sorts of reasons – because of struggles with the cost of living and money management, ill health, disability, distress through domestic violence, and anxiety, often caused by work-related stress or life-connected trauma.
Support in the form of regular donations from trusts, foundations, local law societies, firms and individuals, and unclaimed client balances (RCBs) from firms, is needed more than ever by the Charity in these challenging times.
It operates a corporate giving scheme for firms and suppliers in the legal sector called: Firm Friends and businesses are encouraged to regularly donate to the Charity to ensure a sustainable future for support for the profession.
The Solicitors’ Charity works with clients to identify packages of wellbeing support to help them return to being self-sustaining such as:
Emotional/mental support – with providers of psychotherapy, an initial assessment is offered followed by funded sessions with qualified therapists (from One Bright and Lawsight). The Solicitors’ Charity part-funds the mental health and wellbeing charity, LawCare. LawCare is the mental health charity for the legal sector. LawCare provides free, confidential support, peer support, and information to anyone working in law across the UK, Channel Islands, and Isle of Man. LawCare also works to improve mental health practices in legal workplaces through education, training, and research.
Professional/career support – clients may be returning to work after a break or may need to change the sector of the law they practice in. Perhaps they have been made redundant and need support with securing their next job or want help to consider other options like self-employment, a move to a different sector or retirement. The Charity funds career coaching support with partner, Renovo.
Physical support – anyone can experience physical illness or disabilities affecting their ability to work or manage at home. The Solicitors’ Charity provides occupational health assessments which help with adaptations to continue with life, through their partnership with The OT Practice.
Financial support – if individuals are struggling with finances and money management, then CAM and Pennysmart, the Charity’s expert partners help with budgeting and drawing up practical money management plans. Because of increasing demand, the charity signed up money and benefits advice experts, Pennysmart and Cardiff & Vale Citizens Advice, to provide more capacity and expertise for clients to tap into in 2024 and 2025.
Find out more and ‘Play Your Part’ in supporting the charity at: https://www.thesolicitorscharity.org/play-your-part/
Find out more about The Solicitors’ Charity by visiting: thesolicitorscharity.org
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