Wrestling with Stress – Resilience and Ethics for Lawyers
Date: Nov 12, 2024 9:00 a.m. – 12:35 p.m.
Location: Online
Member Price: $177
Non-Member Price: $209
Section Price: $-1
Areas of Law: Ethics
Earn up to 4 credits, including 4.0 in Ethics! (More Information)
Keynote
Moderator
Presenters
- Michael Kahn, Esq., LPC
- ReelTime CLE, Vancouvera former attorney-turned counselor, is a co-presenter and co-founder of ReelTime CLE in Charlotte, North Carolina, which provides engaging and practical workshops, CLE seminars, law firm retreats and other training programs for attorneys on ethics and professionalism. The company presents training seminars and workshops on ethics, grief, self-care, diversity and inclusion, and other topics for attorneys and mental health professionals throughout the United States and abroad, including the United States Army.
A documentary filmmaker, Mr. Kahn has also worked with Cristina Cassidy Productions, which offers filmmaking as a team-building program and facilitates a discussion after the making of a film to help the staff transfer their observations from the experience to their day-to-day work life. After serving as Assistant Director of Career Services with the Tulane University School of Law, he became a Licensed Professional Counselor in the State of North Carolina. Mr. Kahn’s areas of focus in his psychotherapy practice have included anxiety, depression, grief/loss, career satisfaction and men's issues, and he has worked with adolescents and adults in individual and group therapy settings. In addition to continuing his speaking career, he served as an Adjunct Professor at the Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education & Counseling and also practiced law with the Attorney General’s Office for the State of New Jersey for six years.
Mr. Kahn received his B.A. from Emory University and his J.D. from Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University. He received his M. Ed. in Counseling from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
(8/23) - Chris Osborn, JD
- ReelTime CLE, Charlotteis a co-founder of ReelTime CLE in Charlotte, North Carolina. In addition to his ongoing work with ReelTime CLE, he is the founding Principal of Osborn Conflict Resolution, which provides Superior Court mediation, pre-litigation conflict coaching and dispute resolution, and Christian conflict conciliation services throughout North Carolina. He has been certified as a Superior Court mediator by the North Carolina Dispute Resolution Commission since 2009, and has assisted the majority of his legal clients over the years to reach amicable resolutions in a wide variety of litigation matters, including business breakups, construction and employment law disputes, and Will caveat disputes.
Mr. Osborn joined Horack Talley Pharr & Loundes, PA, in 2001 and during his 11 years as an associate and Shareholder with the firm, handled construction and real estate litigation, business litigation and employment disputes. As the former Chair of the Mecklenburg County Bar “Professionalism, LawyerLife, and Culture” Committee, he helped lead the Bar’s efforts to support its members in times of personal or professional crisis, and its proactive promotion of good mental health practices and substance abuse awareness.
Mr. Osborn served as an Assistant Professor at the Charlotte School of Law, where he taught “Interviewing, Client Counseling, and Negotiations,” Civil Procedure,” “Contracts,” “Problems in Practice: Commercial Transactions,” and “Intro to the Study of Law.” While on the faculty, his scholarly research focused on ethics and professional responsibility, and particularly the interrelationship of both with mental health and substance abuse issues. He has been a frequent speaker at CLE seminars on construction disputes and mechanics’ lien law, and on several topics in employment law, in addition to the seminars on professionalism and legal ethics that he has helped develop and present through ReelTime CLE.
Mr. Osborn received his B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. He served as a law clerk to former United States Magistrate Judge Carl Horn III.
(8/23)
Presented by ReelTime CLE
This program is for anyone struggling with long to-do lists, demanding schedules and stress from overcommitment.
Join popular presenters Michael Kahn and Chris Osbourn of ReelTime CLE, along with a panel of your peers for this unique, highly interactive program built around the critically acclaimed film “Win Win” starring Paul Giamatti. Giamatti plays Mike Flaherty, an attorney trying to juggle the demands of a struggling law practice, his young family and the hapless high school wrestling team that he coaches. The program will explore how Mike’s efforts to navigate the challenges he faces on all three fronts, while often well-intentioned, ultimately lead to an ethical compromise that could have devastating consequences for his practice, his client and the people he loves.
Attendees will leave encouraged, reinvigorated and better equipped to:
- Understand the interrelationship between stress and ethical decision-making;
- Learn to recognize and better understand the warning signs of stress overload;
- Understand the link between the ethical and professional demands of a law practice and an attorney’s personal commitments and pressures;
- Recognize the importance of identifying and utilizing available resources to avoid isolation;
- Identify and implement practical ways to manage professional pressures and stress, as encountered every day and during crunch time.
The agenda:
- Juggling the Manifold Demands of Your Time and Energy
- Win Win, Scene I: “Hey, You Okay” - Knowing When You’re Outmatched: The Interplay of Stress, Mental Health, Ethical Dilemmas and Professional Responsibility
- Win Win Scene II: “What Are You So Stressed About?” - Strengthening Your Core: The Importance of Working Out Your Core Values
- Win Win Scene III: “Did we win?” - When to “Tap Out” and When to “Go to the Mat” – the Cumulative Effect of Every Day Choices
- Win Win Scene IV: What’s Your Play? - We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us: Practical Tools for Stress Management to Maintain Your Ethics Before You Go Down for the Count
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