Speaker Bio

Bree Buchanan, JD, MS, is Senior Advisor for Krill Strategies, a legal consulting firm providing support to AmLaw100 firms seeking to enhance well-being among their personnel. In 2020, she worked with a small team to create the Institute for Well-Being in Law and served as its first executive director and board president. In January 2024, Bree was recipient of the Reed Smith Award for Excellence in Well-being in Law in recognition of her pioneering work in the field. Prior to this, she served as director of the Texas Lawyers Assistance Program and Chair of the ABA Commission on Lawyers Assistance Programs. Currently, she serves as a commissioner for the International Bar Association’s Professional Wellbeing Commission. Bree’s work in lawyer well-being follows a twenty-five-year career spent working on issues related to domestic violence during which she worked as a litigator, lobbyist, and law school professor.