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Course Information
  • smart_display Format

    Live Online with Live Q&A

  • signal_cellular_alt Difficulty Level

    Intermediate

  • work Practice Area

    Ethics and Specialty Credits

Date & Time
  • event Date

    Wednesday, November 19, 2025

  • schedule Time

    1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT

  • timer Program Length

    90 minutes

Credit Information

  • This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.

  • 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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This CLE webinar will examine how perfectionism shows up in legal practice and how to build resilience without lowering professional standards. The panel will distinguish adaptive striving vs. maladaptive perfectionism and explain how the need to be "error-free" may fuel anxiety and burnout.

Faculty

Amy Wood
Psychologist, Executive Coach, Breakout Leaders co-founder, Continuing Education Instructor, American Bar Association Book Author
Amy Wood, Psy.D.

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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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.

Outline

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

Benefits

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