Susan Daicoff

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Susan Daicoff is a Professor of Law at Florida Coastal School of Law in Jacksonville, Florida. She teaches contracts, professional responsibility, and a course on law as a healing profession.

Since 1991, she has been researching and writing in the areas of the psychology of lawyers, lawyer personality, lawyer distress and dissatisfaction, professionalism, and ethical decision making by lawyers. Her book, Lawyer, Know Thyself, synthesized forty years of empirical research on lawyers’ personality traits and related these findings to professionalism and lawyer well being. Her current research interests focus on “a comprehensive law movement” she perceives in the profession, which seeks a better way to resolve legal matters.

She received her J.D. with honors from the University of Florida, her LL.M. in tax from New York University, and her M.S. in clinical psychology from the University of Central Florida.

Susan Daicoff's Articles

Depression Is Prevalent Among Lawyers—But Not Inevitable

Posted on Tuesday, December 02, 2008 by Susan DaicoffComments (0) Depression Is Prevalent Among Lawyers—But Not Inevitable

Statistics about lawyers and depression are staggering. Across 0 to 78 years of practice, 17.8 to 19% of lawyers reported clinically significant levels of depression. According to studies conducted by Dr. Andrew Benjamin, et. al. in the 1980s and 1990s, depression among law students approximated that of the general population before law school (about 9-10%). However, it rose to 32% by the end of the first year of law school, and rocketed ...Read More »

We Are Trained To “Live In Our Heads”

Saturday, May 17, 2008 by Susan DaicoffComments (0)