Facilitated peer support groups for the legal profession
Balint Legal brings a proactive, evidence-based resource for the legal sector aimed at improving client service and enhancing practitioner performance and professional wellbeing.
We provide specialist facilitated peer support and reflective practice groups (Balint groups), adapted for lawyers from a model used successfully by doctors for over 70 years. We are the only organisation in the UK providing Balint groups across the legal profession at all levels of seniority, run by Balint-trained former lawyers.
Balint Legal groups are targeted to help lawyers manage the stress and challenges of day to day legal practice, and better understand and work with others.
Our groups provide a purposeful, structured forum in which to discuss, confidentially, the impact of work and the relationships at the core of that work, and to enhance the resilience required for a long and satisfying career in the law.
In short, to be better and happier lawyers.
Benefits of Balint groups include:
Gaining insight into professional relationships and client needs
Increasing capacity to reflect about self and work and better understand interpersonal dynamics
Improving personal and professional resilience
Working more productively by setting aside emotional ‘churn’
Developing emotional and relational intelligence, leading to better professional interactions
Reducing stress, isolation and the risk of burnout
Stronger lawyers make for stronger organisations
Latest News
Balint Legal partnered with Lerners LLP in a pioneering Canadian initiative introducing Balint groups to support lawyer wellbeing.
◆ Apr 2026
◆ Mar 2026
The Balint Legal model was acknowledged and referenced in a leading sector report highlighting the importance of reflective practice in the legal profession.
Balint Legal co-founders spoke at the Bar Conference 2025 on ‘Reflective practice: a powerful tool for barrister wellbeing’.
◆ Jun 2025
◆ Apr 2025
Read our latest article on ‘Psychological supervision… for lawyers?’, published by LawCare.
Balint Legal appointed by the Bar Council to run the first ever reflective practice pilot across the Bar.
◆ Apr 2025
Balint Legal's innovative work introducing Balint groups to the legal profession featured in a major sector-wide publication.
◆ May 2024
◆ Mar 2024
Our thoughts (published on Balint Legal’s LinkedIn) on the value of facilitated peer support groups in helping manage the inevitable pressures of legal practice.
Our thoughts (published on Balint Legal’s LinkedIn) on remote working, social isolation and the need for allyship and collegiality.
◆ Jan 2024
◆ Oct 2023
Balint Legal speaks at the 5th Annual Wellbeing for Lawyers Conference, on what the legal profession can learn from the use of Balint groups by doctors.
Read our article on why it’s good to talk and the value of facilitated peer support groups, published by LawCare.
◆ Aug 2023