Seven Challenges and Solutions: Stress Management and Mindfulness for Lawyers

Course Details
- smart_display Format
On-Demand
- signal_cellular_alt Difficulty Level
Beginner
- work Practice Area
Ethics
- event Date
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
- schedule Time
1:00 PM E.T.
- timer Program Length
60 minutes
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This 60-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.0 CLE credits.
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

Ms. Scott, Partner and Director of the Firm’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee, concentrates her practice in Labor & Employment law. She has more than 10 years of experience representing employers and individual members of management in both the private and public sectors.
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
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