Pennsylvania (PA) Mental Health CLE Course Catalog

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.

Get practical tools to help you prioritize well-being, time management, and resiliency.

The proliferation of online and remote service provision (in the legal industry and beyond) has presented new challenges for the older-adult population. Older clients face these issues as ones of access to justice. Learn more about the many unique barriers that the older-adult population face and how to effectively intervene and connect across the digital divide.

Attorneys and Judges take on the world and often the problems of their clients and litigants. Law students feel this pressure from the first day of law school, worried about student debt, competition for jobs, and struggles for professional achievement. Many of us are working long hours and under significant pressure, which can have a significant impact on our well-being. The pandemic has significantly increased emotional stress and feelings of isolation for all of us. These conditions can culminate in serious mental health problems, including depression and suicide.

The alarming statistics are being felt nationwide. The disproportionate fallout of Covid-19 continues to force women out of the workforce, away from promotions, and further down the pipeline for senior leadership positions. This timely session will examine what we can do to change the course of this devastating trend, how we can support our fellow female lawyers in the workplace, and what it will take to overcome this roadblock on the road to gender equity.

We've reimagined how to do the work to deal with the pandemic. But now restrictions are coming off and we want to keep some of the good and more effectively address the bad for our employees.