Events

2:00 – 3:00: Proposed Rule Bans Lawyers Having Sex with Clients, Renu Brennan (Bar Counsel) and James McCauley Presentation Summary: The Virginia State Bar’s (VSB’s) Standing Committee on Legal Ethics has proposed rule 1.8 (k) which would prohibit sexual relations with a client unless a consensual sexual relationship existed between them when the client-lawyer relationship

3:00 – 4:00: High Stakes Performance Training, Dr. Lorie Hood Presentation Summary: Work like a high-stakes performer. Play like a polar bear. This session teaches the skills and abilities for legal professionals to (i) use High Stakes Performance techniques and methods to manage energy, not time and of Conscious Self Evaluation and increasing self-awareness and

9:00 – 10:00: Addiction is Not a Moral Failure, Dr. Stephen Loyd Presentation Summary: This session reviews how understanding addiction can benefit members of the legal profession; provides an understanding of addiction from a limbic system/frontal lobe perspective; identifies the role of the brain and amygdala in substance use concerns; and emphasizes the importance of

10:00 – 11:00: Codependence in the Legal Profession Presentation Summary:  This session reviews common personality traits within the legal profession and what makes our profession a "profession at risk." It explores the distinction between enabling, motivating, supporting, and encouraging behaviors and encourages "carefront," confronting with compassion by identifying a discrepancy in actions and words, with a genuine

11:00 – Noon: Wellness in the Legal Community, Justice William C. Mims Presentation Summary: In this now prolonged pandemic "season," how do we continue to respond in a healthy way? What do we do? What should we do? What do healthy habits look like in this "new, for now, normal?" Drawing from the statistical reports