Resiliency Under Stress: A Lawyers Guide to Successfully and Ethically Navigating the Practice of Law

October 28, 2020, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, 1 hour CLE (.5 Ethics); Speakers: Corey B. Rabin, Eric Webber, and Barbara Mardigian.

Summary: 

This presentation explores the basics of resiliency in the legal profession and the impact of a lawyer’s ability to manage through challenges (within the profession, our communities, in our personal lives) on one’s ethical requirements and competency to practice law. Resilience is a person’s capacity for stress-related growth, and lawyer personality research reveals that lawyers as a population tend to be quite low in the trait. This presentation specifically addresses (i) the specific needs and difficulties for legal professionals to develop and maintain resiliency and (ii) how increasing resiliency enhances many critical performance skills in the practice of law.

Faculty Biographies: 

Corey B. Rabin, Esq. brings extensive persona l and professional knowledge to his role of clinical advisor for the Legal Professionals Program at Caron. A practicing attorney for more than 35 years, Mr. Rabin holds a JD from the University of Miami School of Law and has decades of experience in substance abuse recovery and interventions. He speaks and writes nationally about behavioral health subjects relating to lawyers and law firms and provides regular counseling and resources to legal professionals while they engage in the world­ class services and programs at Caron.

Eric  J . Webber,  MA,  CADC,  CMAT/ CSAT, CCPG, is the current principal clinician for the Legal Professionals Program at Caron. Mr. Webber has over 20 years’ experience in the counseling field, with more than a decade at Caron working with a variety of professionals. He has specialized training for working with professionals in the areas of work addiction, return-to-work issues, and management of the intersection of professional and recovery lives. He teamed with Mr. Link Christin to successfully launch the Caron Legal Professionals Program and continues to conduct on-campus clinical programming.