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New Tools Available for Attorney Wellness

Mike Ethridge
Mike Switzer/SC Public Radio

  You may not be surprised to learn that, as a group, lawyers have high levels of stress, job dissatisfaction, burnout, divorce, preventable disease, suicide and substance abuse.  And that’s why, a little over a year ago, the South Carolina Bar Association’s Wellness Task Force launched its Living Above the Bar campaign.

Mike Switzer interviews Mike Ethridge, Chair of the SC Bar’s Wellness Committee and an attorney with Carlock Copeland in Charleston, SC.  He is also author of a blog on this topic: Lawyers in Search of Soul.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.