Uncover how stress, burnout, and mental health impact legal competence, and gain practical strategies to thrive in your practice while avoiding being "out of order."
This specialty credit program looks at the issue of wellness, stress, and lawyer burnout, and mechanisms to deal with such conditions and thrive. It includes a substantial interview with a professor of psychology and clinical psychologist and therapist, Dr. Gary Bruss, who shares inspirational stories of success in therapy, the causes ofstress within the legal profession, how to address and overcome stigma, and mechanisms to cope with andmanage stress so that it does not interfere with the professional ethics and competency obligations of counsel.
With useful data on stress, substance use, and suicide, and burnout rates among lawyers, private quick tests you can take to self-reflect during the program, and a remarkable look at real cases of three drunk judges, a strip club, and White Castle burgers, this will get you the specialty credit with some fun along the way with Dr. Bruss’s interview.
Legal Technology & Education
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Founding Partner at One, LLP
Peter Afrasiabi is a founding partner at One LLP and focuses his practice on copyright, patent, trademark, and entertainment litigation. In addition, Peter is a professor and the Director of the Appellate Clinic at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Peter graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.
