In serving clients, the profession and the system of justice, lawyers bring intellect, passion, and skill; carry significant workloads; and work long hours in close relationship with others solving difficult problems. Lawyers seek not only justice and successful resolution for clients and others, but also fairness, meaning and intrinsic and external rewards for themselves. These aspects of a lawyers' work including bias can cause chronic stress, resulting in burnout, poor physical health, or other health challenges such as anxiety, depression, substance use, addiction and mental illness.
The stigma attached to burnout and other physical or mental health concerns as well as implicit and explicit bias can fuel burnout and make it difficult for lawyers to get help. This program explores what burnout is, how our work as legal professionals and bias contributes to burnout, and how to head off burnout, break the stigma and get help to regain our spark and enjoy our lives.
Title:
Reducing Stigma to Avoid Chronic Stress and Burnout
Date+Time:
February 15, 2024
Noon-1 p.m.
Register Now for this Free Continuing Legal Education Webinar!
Speaker:
Judith (Judie) Rush joined Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers as Outreach Manager in 2022, following a legal career practicing law, teaching and serving the broader community doing volunteer work focused on ethics and professional responsibility, legal education and helping lawyers and law students enjoy happy, healthy and ethical lives. Prior to joining LCL, Rush served as Director of Mentor Externship at University of St. Thomas School of Law, where she continues to build relationships with mentors and mentor students. Rush has enjoyed a successful solo ethics and professional liability advisory, appellate and family law practice in St. Paul, while teaching professional responsibility and legal advocacy and serving as a volunteer in the disciplinary process for more than 20 years.
By:
Dakota County Law Library
Reducing Stigma to Avoid Chronic Stress and Burnout
Date+Time:
February 15, 2024
Noon-1 p.m.
Register Now for this Free Continuing Legal Education Webinar!
Speaker:
Judith (Judie) Rush joined Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers as Outreach Manager in 2022, following a legal career practicing law, teaching and serving the broader community doing volunteer work focused on ethics and professional responsibility, legal education and helping lawyers and law students enjoy happy, healthy and ethical lives. Prior to joining LCL, Rush served as Director of Mentor Externship at University of St. Thomas School of Law, where she continues to build relationships with mentors and mentor students. Rush has enjoyed a successful solo ethics and professional liability advisory, appellate and family law practice in St. Paul, while teaching professional responsibility and legal advocacy and serving as a volunteer in the disciplinary process for more than 20 years.
By:
Dakota County Law Library
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