Alaska (AK) Mental Health CLE Course Catalog

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This program is for lawyers and other legal professionals who want to develop or strengthen skills for creating a more intentional, centered, and joyful day-to-day legal practice.

Join experts in the field as they discuss gun safety issues and tragedy prevention for persons living with dementia.

The workforce has changed significantly in recent years in more ways than we ever imagined. Among these changes, employee expectations have evolved and leaders are losing touch with many legal professionals suffering from burnout. It is essential that company leaders learn how to engage their team, manage burnout more effectively, and most importantly reflect on how to keep their employees happy, as this has a direct impact on financial success. Learning how to pick up on mental health signals in the current working environment and gaining the tools to help your teams work more mindfully is key to moving forward in these unprecedented times.

This seminar will assist attorneys in identifying the context and meaning of neurodiversity and autism – and how it affects law practice.

Are you interested in shifting out of toxic work culture practices and creating high-value teams that support their members well-being? Come join the discussion and learn how to support your talent and give them a reason to stay the course. Understand what creates burnout and the best practices to help you and your team overcome it.

This session will cover barriers to wellness for lawyers, and why lawyers are often reluctant to seek help. This panel will also include achievable strategies that lawyers can employ to enhance their well-being. In addition, this program will review lawyers' ethical obligations, and how enhancing personal well-being and adopting strategies for balancing life’s demands can enhance their ability to comply with these obligations.

Stuart Teicher, Esq., posts some funny stuff while on the road as a CLE teacher. Like most of society he documents his life on FaceBook. But the difference is that most of his posts actually teach some important mental health lessons for lawyers. Join him as he discusses how lawyers are affected by anxiety, compassion fatigue, over-functioning, and more.

As companies recognize the cost of employees’ poor wellbeing, the discussion will look to shine some light on what has been done thus far and what else needs to be done to improve, and where necessary, change the established course on the issue of attorneys wellbeing.