Meet the Law Firm Leader Who’s Out About His Own Mental Health

It’s rare to see a top partner at a law firm come clean about battling mental health issues.

That’s exactly what Simon Malko, the managing partner of Morris, Manning & Martin, a 200-lawyer firm based in Atlanta, did last fall at a firmwide meeting.

“I told everyone that I’ve struggled, and how it took me months to find [a therapist] to talk to,” Malko said to me during a Zoom call. “When I became a managing partner [in 2019], I had a lot of anxiety. I was dealing with a lot at work and the stress of raising two kids ...