10 August 2021Influential Women in IPRory O'Neill

Mental health and law: does IP have a culture problem?

In 2017, Graham and Val McCartney’s son Jonathan took his own life at the age of 35. Jonathan was a successful patent attorney at Haseltine Lake in Bristol, and his tragic death induced his parents to try to understand more about the mental health problems facing lawyers.

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