Celesq® Programs

Thriving as a Lawyer: Combat Burnout and Improve Productivity

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This program will address how the practice of law impacts lawyers’ well-being, and how lawyers can use neuroscience to achieve peak performance. The program will address how legal practice has the potential to produce burnout, the reasons for the burnout, why lawyer support programs do not work, and what strategies can be employed to prevent burnout and maximize performance as a lawyer. The lecture will address best practices for peak mental performance and burnout prevention, based on current neuroscience, as well as structural modifications to law firm billing practices. 

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the inherent features of the practice of law and how it affects the mental well-being of practitioners.
• Understand why lawyer support programs do not work.
• Understand the concept of linearity and how it is the root cause of the crisis in mental health in the legal profession.
• Understand how to apply the concepts of athletics to brain work to combat burnout and improve capacity over time.
• Understand the different types of recovery and what type to use to unleash peak performance.
• Identify practices that can be used to create a “brain-athlete” lifestyle and law practice.
• Understand the law of diminishing returns and how to apply it to legal practice.
• Identify fee structures, billing practices, and law-firm culture initiatives that could be. employed to achieve peak performance for professional and paraprofessional staff. 

Topics Covered in this Course:

• Lawyer well-being, peak performance, law practice management, alternative fee structures, and ethics (RPC 1.3).

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Available in States

• California
• Colorado
• Florida
• Georgia
• New Jersey
• New York
• Texas Self Study

Program Categories

• Employee Benefits & Compensation
• Employment & Labor Law
• Federal Courts
• Florida Eligible
• Health Care Law
• Law Practice Management
• Professionalism

PROGRAM CREDITS

• Areas of Professional Practice : 1 Credit