Work/Life Balance: Is it really a thing? This session explores the critical connection between attorney well-being, the duty of competence and professional liability, examining how stress, burnout and impairment can affect ethical decision-making and client representation. Participants gain practical strategies to support personal well-being, reduce malpractice risk, and fulfill their professional and ethical obligations while maintaining a sustainable legal practice.
Learning Objectives:
- Attendees will identify the connection between attorney's well-being, burnout, and impairment, and recognize how these factors can compromise the duty of competence and increase professional liability exposure.
- Attendees will apply practical strategies for managing stress and maintaining personal well-being that support sound ethical decision-making and effective client representation.
- Attendees will evaluate risk-management practices that reduce malpractice exposure while fulfilling professional and ethical obligations within a sustainable legal practice.