On Resilience: Staying In the Game

On Resilience: Staying In the Game Resilience means different things to different people but ultimately is about pushing past challenges. How we do that is in large part a matter of perspective. Litigation attorney Courtney Perez, a partner at Carter Arnett PLLC, had always viewed resilience as something to be endured, like “taking the punches.” For her, resilience has been all about survival and getting to the other side. As a successful, highachieving professional, Courtney’s feelings about resilience surprised me.

Then again, it turned out many other women in the Dallas Bar Association’s WE LEAD program shared her views since they, too, have experienced the burnout and stress of the profession. Among the things they lack are an abundance of senior female mentors to guide them since many women attorneys exit the profession once they make it to partner level and immediately beyond.