The Whole Lawyer: Making Wellness a Priority in Your Practice 2024

  • OnDemand seminar
  • Attorney Regulation
  • Law Practice Management
The Whole Lawyer: Making Wellness a Priority in Your Practice 2024

Priority? You.

Lawyers are used to putting the well-being of others before their own — in reality, it’s part of the job. Practicing law often involves juggling long hours, multiple clients, looming deadlines, and different types of cases all at once. Many lawyers face additional challenges to their well-being, such as stiff competition, unrealistic expectations, and financial pressure. Understandably, these constant demands of the profession can lead to depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and burnout. It’s essential that lawyers take affirmative steps to prioritize wellness, so they remain productive, healthy, and happy in their professional and personal lives.

A barrister’s breakthrough

Turbocharge your well-being with The Whole Lawyer: Making Wellness a Priority in Your Practice. Join a top-notch panel to learn more about:

  • Characteristics of the profession that can have a negative impact
  • Signs of stress, burnout, and impostor syndrome
  • Personal and professional stressors
  • Common barriers to asking for help
  • Systems to support your wellness
  • Your ethical duties relating to competence, diligence, and client communications

Product details

Schedule

8:30 am
Traits of the Profession that Impact Well-Being (LAU)

Dean R. Dietrich (moderator) Lindsey D. Draper, Bree Buchanan

  • Competition
  • Winning/losing
  • Expectations of Self
  • Living with stress
  • Making stress work for you
  • Suicide
  • Addiction or Use of Stress Relievers
  • Compassion Fatigue
9:20 am
Ethics of Lawyer Well-Being (CLE/EPR)

Dean R. Dietrich (moderator), Lindsey D. Draper, Sarah E. Peterson, Thomas J. Watson

  • Competence
  • Diligence
  • Client focus
  • Client security fund
10:10 am
Break
10:25 am
Recognizing Your Personal Well-Being (LAU)

Dean R. Dietrich (moderator), Julie M. Spoke, Emily Logan Stedman

  • Good, bad, and ugly
  • Guard rails
  • Imposter syndrome
  • Barriers to seeking help
11:15 am
Setting Up Systems to Improve Your Wellness (LAU)

Dean R. Dietrich (moderator), Brent J. Hoeft, Emily Logan Stedman, Julie M. Spoke

  • Release strategies
  • Stop taking it home
  • Personal and Family Relationships
  • What you feed succeeds (physical, mental and emotional
12:15 pm
Program Concludes

Faculty

Program Chair & Presenters

Presenters

Bree Buchanan
Krill Strategies LLC · Austin
Brent J. Hoeft
State Bar of Wisconsin · Madison
Sarah E. Peterson
State Bar of Wisconsin · Madison
Julie M. Spoke
Office of Lawyer Regulation · Madison
Emily Logan Stedman
Husch Blackwell LLP · Milwaukee
Thomas J. Watson
Wisconsin Lawyers Mutual Insurance Co. · Madison

  • Recognize aspects of the profession that negatively affect your well-being
  • Assess your personal well-being for signs of stress, burnout, and imposter syndrome
  • Learn how, when, and where to seek help
  • Implement strategies to reconcile personal and professional demands
  • Avoid ethical violations and disciplinary action resulting from poor well-being
  • Discover stress management techniques and healthy habits
  • All lawyers
  • Paralegals

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