Mindfulness For Lawyers: A Tool To Foster Professionalism (EPC251212-B)

Friday, December 12, 2025

11:15 AM to 12:15 PM

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Presented by the Professionalism Committee

About the Program

Professional liability insurers and law firm risk managers have begun turning to a surprising source to address practitioners’ departures from professionalism:  cognitive neuroscience. Specifically to mindfulness as a tool of maintaining deliberation, calm, and equanimity in interactions with clients, adversaries, the courts and the public.

You Will Learn

  • About some of the basic concepts of integrating mindfulness techniques into law practice as a way to foster professionalism in interactions with clients, adversaries, and the courts and to manage stress

Who Should Attend

Any attorney practicing law.

Credit

CT: 1.0 CLE Credit (Ethics)
NY: 1.0 CLE Credit (Ethics)

The Connecticut Bar Association/CT Bar Institute is an accredited provider of New York State CLE. This program qualifies for newly admitted and experienced attorneys CLE credits. 

Attorneys seeking NY CLE credit who have been admitted to the New York State Bar for two years or less must attend the live seminar for skills or ethics credit, a fully interactive videoconference, or simultaneous transmission with synchronous interactivity. Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias CLE credits are only available as non-transitional credits. For further information please see the NYCourts.gov page on CLE: http://ww2.nycourts.gov/attorneys/cle/index.shtml.

Speaker

atkins_david1 David P. Atkins
Yale Law School, New Haven