Digital Addiction as a Wellbeing Risk Factor: New CLE Guidance for Attorneys
A CLE course published June 25 by TRTCLE addresses digital addiction as a discrete attorney wellness risk, framing excessive device and platform use as an impulse control disorder with direct consequences for anxiety, sleep disruption, impaired judgment, and ultimately ethical performance. The course maps the issue to ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, identifying how digital overuse can imp
BY FRONTIER DESK · JULY 1, 2026 · 1 MIN READ
A CLE course published June 25 by TRTCLE addresses digital addiction as a discrete attorney wellness risk, framing excessive device and platform use as an impulse control disorder with direct consequences for anxiety, sleep disruption, impaired judgment, and ultimately ethical performance. The course maps the issue to ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, identifying how digital overuse can impair competence and diligence obligations — bringing it within the scope of professional responsibility, not just personal wellbeing. For wellbeing officers and managing partners, this framing matters: it moves the "always on" culture from a preference issue to a professional conduct risk. Firms that have not addressed connectivity norms — response-time expectations, after-hours messaging, notification management — have an unmanaged ethics exposure as well as a burnout risk.