Stress Management for Lawyers
Why Attend?
In today's recessionary climate, the practice of law has become even more demanding. This intensive, fast-paced seminar provides practical, workable techniques for effectively managing the stresses and pressures that face many lawyers and legal professionals in their hectic legal practice. Stress Management for Lawyers first outlines the common sources of stress and different approaches to stress management then teaches you how to recognize and deal with practice-related stress that can adversely impact your professional and personal life. Taught by nationally-recognized instructor, Meg Spencer Dixon, who has taught stress and time management techniques to lawyers across the country, this webcast gives you innovative strategies to help you more effectively manage stress and, in the process, improve your mental and physical capacity so you can be a better lawyer for your clients.
What You Will Learn
Topics include:
The Nuts and Bolts of Stress for the Legal Professional
Increasing Your Mental and Physical Capacity To Handle Stress
Creating and Implementing a Realistic Stress-Reduction Plan
And much more!
This interactive seminar gives you the opportunity to submit questions in advance and/or during the program for discussion by the instructor.
Who Should Attend
Lawyers and other legal professionals who want to learn practical strategies to help them manage stress and, as a result, increase their mental clarity while at work should attend this webcast.
Planning Chair
Meg Spencer Dixon is a consultant specializing in organization and time management seminars for lawyers and legal professionals. Ms. Dixon came to the field of organization and time management by way of a career in law, during which she practiced in the litigation and energy groups of Shaw Pittman in Washington, D.C. She received her undergraduate degree in economics from Princeton University in 1982 and law degree from Stanford Law School in 1985. In 1992, Ms. Dixon founded Spencer Consulting, and since then has been customizing and conducting seminars and providing one-on-one consulting/coaching on many aspects of organization and time management and related subjects such as project management, stress management, overcoming procrastination, conquering e-mail overload, and how to run effective meetings. She has presented seminars for lawyers and other legal professionals at over 135 law firms, associations, CLE providers, government agencies, corporate law departments, universities, and law schools.
Please note: Not all MCLE states (including IN, KS, NC, TX, and VA) will accredit this program. Please consult the Mandatory CLE information provided before the webcast to confirm that your state will approve it for credit.
Program Schedule
12:00 noon Program Begins
1:45 p.m. Questions & Answers
2:00 p.m. Adjournment
Total 60-minute hours of instruction: 2.0; total 50-minute hours: 2.4
Please note: Not all MCLE states (including IN, KS, and TX) will accredit this program. Please consult the Mandatory CLE information provided before the webcast to confirm that your state will approve it for credit.
Here's what registrants have said about this course:
“Meg Spencer Dixon very smoothly covered all the bases from the chemical combinations, physical aspects, and scientific reasonings of stress to the recovery stages with grace, charm, and knowledge!
“Realistic, well-researched, and good examples.
“This is the best stress management seminar I've ever attended!
“Attendance should be mandatory; most of the people who attended were good at stress management, need some of the more stressed folks.”
“This was a great presentation and very useful. ”
“The seminar encouraged people to realize their attitude is key to most potentially stressful situations/events.”
Times
Eastern 12:00 noon – 2:00 pm
Central 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Mountain 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Pacific 9:00 am – 11:00 am
Alaska 8:00 am – 10:00 am
Hawaii 7:00 am – 9:00 am
