Description
The experts identify ways to educate management on creating psychological safety and a culture of understanding in firms and corporations, and the benefits to the organization when counsel feel secure in admitting mistakes or seeking help before things go wrong. The panel will help lawyers recognize perfectionism, understand resilience, and raise awareness of when perfectionism is driving away from wellness and potentially towards substance use disorder.
Listen as our panel shares real world scenarios, practices, and tools you can use immediately. The panel will provide ideas for action planning and resources so attendees may leave with the capability to produce a concrete, personal resilience plan and ideas to support colleagues.
Presented By
With over 15 years of legal experience in civil litigation, conflicts of interest, and professional responsibility, Ms. Sheehan serves as the firm’s Assistant General Counsel. In this role, she advises firm attorneys with respect to ethics compliance, risk prevention, and conflicts of interest. Ms. Sheehan assists in the review and negotiation of outside counsel guidelines, conflict waivers and engagement letters, and other items with ethical implications. In addition, she assists in providing ethical training and education within the firm to its attorneys and staff. Ms. Sheehan is an Adjunct Professor at the IU Robert H. McKinney School where she teaches Professional Responsibility. She is also a former Assistant Clinical Professor of Business Law and Ethics at the Kelley School of Business. Ms. Sheehan is passionate about promoting ethical awareness, integrity, and professionalism in the legal and business fields and contributing to the advancement of knowledge and practice in these domains.
Dr. Wood is a licensed psychologist, certified executive coach, and award-winning author who has devoted her career to helping individuals and organizations articulate and arrive at new and more empowering versions of success. In particular, she is known for helping individuals and organizations to edit down overwhelm to their own customized productivity and happiness essentials. With a doctorate from Adler University and a prior career in communications, Dr. Wood inspires transformation with a unique blend of humor, directness, and psychological insight.
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This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.
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An excellent opportunity to earn Ethics CLE credits. Note: BARBRI cannot guarantee that this course will be approved for ethics credits in all states. To confirm, please contact our CLE department at pdservice@barbri.com.
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Date + Time
- event
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
- schedule
1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT
I. Introduction
II. Perfectionism: adaptive vs. maladaptive
III. Perfectionism's correlation to anxiety, depression, and substance abuse
IV. Strategies to temper perfectionism and maintain wellness
V. Resilience basics for attorneys
VI. Mindfulness and lifestyle choices
VII. Supporting and understanding perfectionist colleagues: working together
VIII. Data, resources, and additional tools
The panel will discuss these and other important topics:
- Understanding perfectionism and how it manifests in practice
- Resilience skills and applying resiliency to combat perfectionism
- The benefits of adaptive perfectionism and the dangers of maladaptive perfectionism
- Strategies and best practices for moderating perfectionism
- Educating and adapting organizational culture towards psychological safety and understanding
- Recognizing the early warning signs of distress and impairment
- Data clarifying the challenges and dangers of perfectionism
- The relationship of physical and mental health to occupational health and wellness
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