Emotional Intelligence and Time Management for an Ethical and Healthy Law Practice

Hour 1: Using Emotional Intelligence to Promote Lawyer Wellness and an Ethical Practice

Hour 2: Reducing Stress and Improving Wellbeing through Better Time Management
In their 2018 Legal Trends Report, CLIO found that 75% of lawyers report frequently or always working outside of regular business hours, and that 39% of lawyers say these long hours negatively affect their personal lives.

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Credits Ethics:2.0, General:2.0

Tag(s) Ethics, Practice Management, Wellness

Description

Nebraska MCLE #268465. 2.0 CLE Hours, including 2.0 Ethics Hours. (OnDemand credit)

**This program has been approved for 2.0 hours of distance-learning CLE, including 2.0 hours of ethics. You may claim 2.0 hours of credit total for this program.

Hour 1: Using Emotional Intelligence to Promote Lawyer Wellness and an Ethical Practice

Lawyer wellness is one of the major contributors to lawyer competence. Learn how emotional intelligence can help you shift your thinking patterns to improve wellness while also counteracting negativity and stress. Additionally, emotionally intelligent lawyers are better communicators, avoiding the primary reason for disciplinary and malpractice claims. Research shows that using emotional intelligence skills sharpens our abilities to assess risks, to better understand which ethical standards are appropriate in a situation, to recognize when and how others are making ethical decisions and to deal better with the emotional fallout from our own ethical choices, especially when ignoring or acting against personal values, which lawyers may need to do in advocating for clients. This session will:

Define and describe emotional intelligence
Assess your own emotional intelligence
Articulate the four domain model of emotional intelligence as competencies that can be learned
Explore the emotional intelligence competencies of self-awareness and self-management

Hour 2: Reducing Stress and Improving Wellbeing through Better Time Management
In their 2018 Legal Trends Report, CLIO found that 75% of lawyers report frequently or always working outside of regular business hours, and that 39% of lawyers say these long hours negatively affect their personal lives. Additionally, according to the Dave Nee Foundation, new law school students exhibit rates of depression around 8-9%—but after three years in law school, 40% of students are depressed. And, lawyers are one of the top five professions for highest suicide rate. To combat these troubling statistics, legal professionals need to adopt time management practices aimed at improving work-life balance, reducing stress, and increasing overall well-being. This session will:

Understand where your time goes
Create time management routines
Plan and prioritize your time
Deal with impacts of others on your time
Introduce “time tips” in the flow of the workday

Erika (Dakin) Kirby, PhD

Erika Kirby is a Professor of Communication Studies and the A.F. Jacobson Chair in Communication at Creighton University and a Senior Facilitator for the Anti-Defamation League. She earned her doctorate from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with an emphasis on organizational communication. She studies the everyday intersections of working and personal life, emphasizing how differing social identities (including race, class, and gender) intersect with organizational structures. She teaches courses on race, social justice, organizations, and communication. She co-edited two editions of Gender Actualized: Cases in Communicatively Constructing Realities with Dr. Chad McBride and has published in numerous outlets in her discipline, including Management Communication Quarterly, the Handbook of Organizational Communication, and the Handbook of Conflict Communication. She is past-president of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender. She has trained and facilitated for the past 20 years for organizations such as ConAgra, Clerk of the Legislature's Office, Farm Credit Services of America, Syngenta, The Gavilon Group LLC, Executive Board of the Legislative Council, and Woodmen of the World.

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Active Nebraska attorneys are required to complete 10 hours of continuing legal education (CLE) each year. Two of those 10 hours must be in the field of professional responsibility (ethics). Nebraska attorneys may claim only 5 hours of distance-learning CLE per year. Webinars viewed on this portal are considered distance-learning. Under the new MCLE reporting process, the NSBA will report your attendance for this program, which will be automatically updated into your transcript. The NSBA has 30 days to report your hours to Nebraska MCLE, and your transcript may not update immediately. You are no longer able to log your own hours in your transcript; they must be reported by the sponsor.

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