Finding Joy in the Practice – A 2025 Reboot
Category: On Demand
Member Price: $184
Non-Member Price: $230
Areas of Law: For All Attorneys
| NJ CLE: | NJ CLE information: This program has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 2.4 hours of total CLE credit (Full Credits Available: NJ General: 2.4). |
| NY CLE (t&nt): | NY Professional Practice Transitional: 2.0 |
| PA CLE: | PA Substantive Credit: 2.0
New: No PACLE fee is required for this program. To earn PA CLE credits, a valid PA Bar ID number must be entered into the CLE form provided after attending the program. |
Keynote
Moderator
Presenters
- Robert A. Bianchi, Esq.
- Former Morris County Prosecutor and Certified Trial Attorney
The Bianchi Law Group, LLC, Parsippany - Kim Smiley
- The Empathy Effect and Empathy Empire Foundation
“A powerful presentation.”
“Thank you for talking about this hard topic – it gave me inspiration.”
We presented this program at the end of December. The feedback was so strong, we decided to bring you another live program in 2025.
NJSBA/NJICLE are proud to present a joyful start the year with this special program on self-compassion.
Are the pressures of legal practice weighing you down? Do you struggle to maintain empathy for your clients, colleagues or even yourself amid deadlines, disputes and demands? This innovative CLE program is designed for lawyers to explore the transformative power of empathy and self-compassion as tools for personal and professional resilience.
The program is led by Kim Smiley – a Harvard-trained expert in empathy, mysticism and the divine feminine, and Robert A. Bianchi, Esq., a practicing lawyer who understands the unique challenges of the legal profession and has been speaking about mindset and joyfulness practices to audiences for over 15 years. They will provide actionable strategies to help you navigate the stresses of legal practice while fostering a deeper connection to your own well-being, as well as your clients, family and friends.
This seminar will help you:
- Prevent burnout and build resilience in a high-pressure environment.
- Enhance your ability to advocate for clients by fostering genuine empathy.
- Improve relationships with colleagues, clients, family and yourself.
- Develop practical tools for handling pressure and ethical dilemmas with clarity and compassion.
Find out how joyfulness and empathy practices will make you a more effective lawyer and litigator!
Join our experts to gain practical techniques that will improve your personal and professional well-being, enhance emotional intelligence and interpersonal effectiveness and build sustainable habits of empathy and self-care in a demanding field, and the care of clients, family, and friends in a demanding profession.
About the Presenters:
Kim Smiley
A Harvard-trained expert in compassion, Smiley spent most of her career in the nonprofit sector, enriching the lives of vulnerable populations. An empathy activist, she inspires 275,000 followers in 75 counties through her nonprofit The Empathy Effect and Empathy Empire Foundation. Smiley is also the host of Empathy Empire, a podcast and vlog profiling some of the empathetic people on the planet.
Robert A. Bianchi, Esq.
Bianchi is a New Jersey Certified Criminal Trial Attorney, partner at the Bianchi Law Group, and former Morris County Prosecutor. With decades of experience, he has won numerous criminal jury trials, multimillion-dollar verdicts. He has appeared in excess of 1,200 TV appearances as a national TV legal analyst and TV anchor. For decades, Bianchi has uniquely been lecturing to lawyers, business, leaders, educators, students and the community on mindset practices and his signature lecture called Joyful Journey. He has started a new newsletter entitled “Sirens & Summations—A Path to Joyful Living,” based on his unique life experiences from the perspective of a trial lawyer and EMT. Bob’s mindset and joyfulness practices have brought him to the TEDx Stage.