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A partner therapy benefit for AmLaw 100 firms.
A partner-only mental health channel that sits outside the firm EAP. Scope, billing, confidentiality walls, and a 30-day rollout, scoped by the managing partner and the chief talent officer, not the broker.
A partner-only mental health benefit, designed to sit outside the firm EAP.
This page is for managing partners, chief talent officers, COOs, and well-being committees scoping a partner-tier benefit at an AmLaw 100 firm. If that is you, the rest of this page is the briefing document: scope, billing, confidentiality walls, and rollout.
CEREVITY operates as an independent clinical network with direct contracting between the network, the clinicians, and the partner firm. There is no broker layer, no carve-out inside the workforce-wide EAP, and no claims data flowing back to HR or to a benefits intermediary. The partner population is administered as its own eligibility group, with its own intake, its own clinician roster, and its own billing line.
Our clinicians are independent licensed professionals. Many have worked with senior legal practitioners before and understand the partnership track from inside their consulting rooms. CEREVITY exists because the structural realities of EAP coverage and the lawyer assistance program model leave the partner tier without an appropriate channel of care, and because, for the AmLaw 100, that channel needs to be built differently.
The partner tier is not the workforce population the EAP was designed for.
The reasons your partners do not engage with the firm EAP or the state bar's lawyer assistance program are not failures of either system. They are inherent to how those systems were scoped. The partner tier sits structurally outside what either was designed to address.
Senior partners present with a recognizable clinical profile: high-functioning anxiety maintained at significant personal cost, decision fatigue compounded across decades, identity-fusion with practice, and the specific isolation of partnership-level dynamics. These are not workforce-wide concerns the EAP roster was built to address. They are the presenting issues of a small, identifiable population the firm depends on.
State lawyer assistance programs are structurally important and well-intentioned, with strong confidentiality protections and statutory carve-outs from mandatory reporting in many jurisdictions. They are also scoped primarily around substance use, acute mental health crisis, and impaired-practitioner concerns. They are not a private-pay channel for ongoing depth-oriented work, and they are not built around the access pattern senior partners require for week-over-week engagement.
What changes when the channel is built around the partner tier specifically: matched clinicians with experience treating senior practitioners, session formats long enough to do depth work, scheduling that respects calendar realities, and a confidentiality posture that gives the firm no visibility into who has engaged or with what.
What CEREVITY clinicians actually treat in the AmLaw 100 partner tier.
The clinical scope is built around the presenting profile of senior partners at large US firms, not the workforce-wide profile an EAP roster is built for.
Partnership burnout
Twenty-five years in and the calendar still wins every week. Recovery capacity goes first, then the practice itself starts to slip. Different from acute stress, and treated differently.
Origination pressure
The book that drives compensation also drives a particular kind of chronic stress. The pressure to feed and protect the book becomes its own clinical issue when it stops being seasonal and becomes structural.
High-functioning anxiety
Performance maintained at cost. The output looks fine to the client, the firm, and the spouse; the cost is invisible until it is not. Common in equity and senior non-equity partners.
Imposter syndrome on elevation
The partnership vote happened. The certainty did not. Common in newly elevated partners, lateral arrivals, and counsel-to-partner transitions.
Decision fatigue
Hundreds of consequential decisions a week, each with downstream client, firm, or matter implications. Eventually the cost shows up, and not in the obvious places.
Succession and chair transitions
Practice group chair, executive committee, managing partner. The transitions into and out of these roles are clinical events, not just career events. The isolation of these dynamics is itself a treatable issue.
Identity fusion with practice
Thirty years of being defined by the practice means the work of separating self from role is its own clinical project. Particularly acute in the runway to retirement, of counsel transitions, and post-equity arrangements.
Post-deal and post-trial recovery
The cycle of all-consuming engagement followed by sudden depressurization has a clinical signature. Most partners learn to manage it; some never do. The intensive session format was built partly for this.
Three session formats, each chosen for the work.
Most benefits programs offer one session length. CEREVITY offers three, because different kinds of clinical work need different amounts of time. The choice is made between the clinician and the partner, not by what a payor will reimburse.
The steady cadence of ongoing therapy. Most clients spend most of their care in this format.
For work that needs more room than a standard hour. Focused work on a specific transition or decision.
For work that needs uninterrupted time to reach resolution within a single session.
Because CEREVITY operates outside the insurance reimbursement model, session length is set by the clinical work, not by what a payor will reimburse. That is the structural reason all three formats can exist on the same network, and the reason an AmLaw 100 partner can do depth work without explaining a 90-minute or 3-hour block to a benefits administrator.
Ready to scope a partner-tier briefing?
Briefings are scoped to your firm. We respond personally within 48 business hours with proposed times and any prepared materials relevant to the shape you are evaluating, including draft scope, billing, and confidentiality terms.
Request a briefing →How a partner is matched.
Matched, not first-served. Here is the process that produces the match for an AmLaw 100 partner.
The eligible individual submits a confidential intake form covering presenting issues, modality preference, professional context, and scheduling parameters. The form is operated by CEREVITY, not by a broker.
Intake is reviewed by CEREVITY's clinical leadership against the network's active capacity, current licensure footprint, and modality availability. This is the step that does not exist in an EAP.
A specific clinician is matched to the partner based on the review. The partner receives the match with the clinician's profile, modality, and credentials, plus a direct online scheduling link.
The partner schedules directly through CEREVITY infrastructure. No phone handoff. First sessions are typically scheduled within 5 to 10 business days of the match.
Care continues with the matched clinician on the cadence the clinical work requires, in 50-minute, 90-minute, or 3-hour sessions, without an employer-imposed cap.
Capability comparison for AmLaw 100 Partners.
A vendor evaluation framework on the dimensions that matter when scoping a partner-tier-tier offering for partners. Both models have a place. They are designed for different populations.
| // Dimension | Typical EAP | Exec-tier platform | CEREVITY |
|---|---|---|---|
| Network model | Broker layer between firm and contractor roster | Single-vendor platform, W-2 or contracted pool | Independent clinical network with direct relationships |
| Clinician assignment | First contractor to reply with availability | Algorithmic matching on intake-form inputs | Clinical review by network leadership |
| Intake & scheduling | Phone handoff to clinician's line | App-based intake and scheduling | Network-operated intake, direct online scheduling |
| Session formats | Standard 50-min; capped session counts | Standard 45 to 50-min sessions | 50-min, 90-min, and 3-hr formats, no cap |
| Clinical scope | Acute, broadly applicable concerns | Workforce-wide, executive tier as upsell | Built around AmLaw 100 Partners presenting issues |
| Modality fit | Generalist talk therapy | Generalist therapy with some specialty | CBT, DBT, psychodynamic, matched at intake |
| Reach | National via roster density | National telehealth, roster variance | All 50 states via telehealth |
| Payment model | Firm-sponsored, in-network | Per-employee-per-month seat pricing | Private-pay, out-of-network, partnership agreement |
| Firm visibility | Aggregate, broker-mediated | Vendor dashboards with engagement | Administrative reporting only |
| Right fit for | Workforce-wide acute support | Mid-tier ongoing with executive add-on | AmLaw 100 Partners, end-to-end |
What the firm sees, and what it does not.
For a partner-tier-tier channel to function, the participating partner has to trust that engaging with it does not create visibility into their care. CEREVITY is built around that requirement.
- Confirmation that contracted services were provided to eligible individuals.
- Aggregate utilization at the partnership level, where contractually appropriate.
- Invoicing and eligibility reconciliation.
- Nothing tied to a specific named partner's clinical content.
- Whether a specific named partner has scheduled, attended, or engaged.
- What clinical issues are being addressed, or which clinician is assigned.
- Session notes, treatment plans, or diagnostic information.
- Any attendance detail at the individual level.
Clinicians are independent licensed professionals operating under their own licensure and the confidentiality and privacy obligations that attach to it. Protected health information is held within the clinical infrastructure, and the agreements governing it are defined in writing before the partnership goes live.
Clinical records, session content, and individual engagement data sit inside the clinical platform. The administrative layer the partner interacts with is structurally separate from the clinical layer.
Eligibility lists are maintained on the partner side and confirmed at the point of intake. Administering eligibility does not require the partner to receive clinical information back.
A Business Associate Agreement is executed where the partnership structure requires it. The partnership agreement defines administrative reporting scope in writing before going live.
What the first 30 days look like.
The hardest part of a partner-tier-tier partnership is not the contract. It is the period between signature and the first partner in care.
A 60-minute kickoff with your team and CEREVITY's partnership lead. We confirm the partnership shape, the eligibility model, the administrative reporting scope, and the internal owner. The BAA, where applicable, is executed in this window.
Your team provides the eligible-individual list. CEREVITY confirms it against the network side and establishes the verification path that runs at the point of intake. Only eligibility confirmation flows forward.
CEREVITY provides a confidential, partner-tier-appropriate comms template explaining the benefit, the privacy posture, and how to access intake. Your team adapts it to your voice.
Eligible individuals begin intake on their own cadence. First sessions are typically scheduled within 5 to 10 business days. By day 30, the partnership is operational and a quarterly review cadence is in place.
The business case for the managing partner and the chief talent officer.
Three axes the well-being committee, the managing partner, or the chief talent officer can defend in a partner meeting. The numbers will vary by firm; the structural argument does not.
Partner retention is a per-departure problem.
Lateral partner economics at AmLaw 50 firms put the all-in cost of a failed or unrealized hire well into the millions once recruiter fees, guarantees, onboarding, and book transition are counted. A partner-tier clinical channel built for the realities of senior practice pays for itself across a small number of prevented departures or stabilized incumbents. Source: industry reporting on lateral partner economics at AmLaw 50 firms.
Partner performance is a leveraged input.
A senior partner running at 70 percent of capacity is not a 30 percent productivity loss to the firm. It is a leveraged loss across every matter that partner supervises, every associate they mentor, and every client relationship they hold. Recovery of clinical capacity flows downstream through the entire pyramid.
Lateral recruiting and equity attraction.
Mid-career and senior laterals increasingly evaluate firm well-being posture as part of the partnership decision. A named, confidential, partner-tier mental health channel is a differentiating signal in the lateral market and a defensible answer in an equity track conversation for the chief talent officer.
Questions partners and their teams ask first.
Scope is defined in the partnership agreement before go-live. The standard shape is a partner-only eligibility group, covering equity and income partners, with optional extensions to specific senior non-partner populations such as senior counsel, of counsel, or the executive committee at the firm's election. The eligibility list is maintained on the firm side and confirmed at the point of intake. Workforce-wide populations are not in scope; that is what the firm EAP is for.
Billing runs through a direct partnership agreement between the firm and CEREVITY, separate from the firm's medical, dental, and EAP benefits stack. There is no per-employee-per-month seat pricing and no insurance reimbursement layer. Pricing depends on the eligible partner population, the administrative reporting scope, and the partnership shape; the briefing call is where the right structure is identified, and the cost falls out of that, not the other way around.
No. CEREVITY is a structural complement to both. Most AmLaw 100 firms keep their EAP in place for workforce-wide coverage, continue to refer partners with substance-use or impairment-level concerns to the appropriate state LAP, and add CEREVITY as the partner-tier private-pay channel for ongoing depth-oriented work that neither the EAP nor the LAP was designed to support.
No. Administrative reporting only. The firm receives confirmation that contracted services were provided to eligible individuals and aggregate utilization where contractually appropriate. The firm does not see whether a specific named partner has scheduled, attended, or engaged, what clinical issues are being addressed, or which clinician is assigned. This confidentiality wall is contractually scoped in writing before the partnership goes live.
Clinicians in the CEREVITY network are independently licensed professionals operating under their own licensure and the confidentiality and privacy obligations that attach to it. The handling of any protected health information, and the specific agreements that govern it including any Business Associate Agreement, are defined in writing in the partnership agreement before the partnership goes live, scoped to your firm's structure.
Clinicians in the CEREVITY network are bound by their licensure-specific mandatory reporting obligations. CEREVITY is not a reporting workaround and does not represent itself as one. For partners with impairment-level concerns that would trigger LAP referral or board reporting, the state LAP remains the appropriate channel, with the statutory confidentiality and reporting carve-outs LAPs are designed around.
Thirty days, phased: kickoff and scoping in days 1 to 7, eligibility integration in days 7 to 14, internal communications to the partner population in days 14 to 21, first matches and ongoing care in days 21 to 30. The chief talent officer typically owns internal comms; the managing partner or the executive committee owns the announcement. First sessions are typically scheduled within 5 to 10 business days of intake.
Through a briefing call. Use the form below or email [email protected] directly. Briefings are scoped to your firm; we respond personally within 48 business hours.
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The structural argument on this page is based on the firsthand experience of CEREVITY clinicians who have served on EAP panels, combined with widely-published industry estimates of EAP utilization and AmLaw 100 Partners-specific data where cited. Specific contractual scopes, including the administrative reporting boundary and the BAA structure, are confirmed in writing in the partnership agreement before any partnership goes live.
