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This CLE webinar will guide counsel on addressing and managing stress. The presenter will discuss common attorney stress points and offer practical steps for handling the stress of practice.

Faculty

Description

Being a lawyer inevitably means experiencing a lot of stress. Stress is impossible to avoid, but it is not impossible to manage. You can learn how to handle stress for your own sake, the sake of your loved ones, and for your own career satisfaction and success. During this seminar, Cheyne Scott shares various techniques for addressing seven common stress points most lawyers share. As a litigation partner, Ms. Scott is walking in your shoes everyday. As a Certified Life Coach, she will show you to a different path for handling the stresses of practice so you can find balance amid chaos and uncertainty and take personal satisfaction in work that you do.

Specialty credit information:

  • This webinar qualifies for a mental health/substance abuse credit in Oregon.

Outline

I. Mindfulness

II. Understanding stress

III. Perfectionism

IV. Boundaries

V. Imposter syndrome

VI. Compassion, fatigue, and loneliness

VII. Victim mindset

Benefits

The presenter will review these and other relevant issues:

  • Define mindfulness
  • Discuss why mindfulness, stress management, and wellbeing are important to lawyers and to legal employers
  • Discuss how stress specifically impacts attorneys
  • Identify seven common stressors that attorneys face
  • Discuss some potential solutions to those problems and how mindfulness can help