IWIL Alert – January 2024

  The latest IWIL news for you January 2024 IWIL ALERT NEWS & MORE THE ED REPORT – Denise Gaskin New Yearís Intentions. The New Year always causes me to stop and reflect on what the past year brought and what might be up next, personally and professionally. Not necessarily New Yearís Resolutions, but more…

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Path To Well-Being In Law – Episode 27: Nathalie Cadieux

Nathalie Cadieux has a Ph.D. from the University of Montreal specializing on the mental health of professionals in a regulated profession. Canadian leader on mental health research among legal professionals, she is professor in the Department of Management and Human Resources Management at the University of Sherbrooke’s business school. Speaker and author of several international…

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Bonus Content: Recommended Listening

Bonus Content: Recommended Listening Professor Susan D. Carle and Professor Terry Davidson Professor Susan D. Carle, American University Washington College of Law Terry Davidson, Trone Family Eminent Scholar Chair in Neuroscience and Behavior, Department of Neuroscience, American University  The holiday season brings an opportunity to consider the impact of diet on the brain.  Professors Susan…

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Beyond Self-Care: Applied Neuroscience Can Help You Reclaim Joy in Legal Practice

Beyond Self-Care: Applied Neuroscience Can Help You Reclaim Joy in Legal Practice By Kendra Brodin, Esq., MSW, Catherine Duncan MA, BCC., and Henry Emmons, MD Kendra Brodin, JD, MSW is Founder & CEO of EsquireWell, a legal well-being and professional development company providing speaking, consulting, coaching, and the online EsquireWell Academy. As a certified coach…

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Path To Well-Being In Law – Episode 26: Jennifer DiSanza

Jennifer DiSanza has spent the last two decades working with law students as a student affairs administrator and financial educator.  She has worked at three different ABA-Approved law schools and is passionate about well-being in the legal profession.  Most recently, Jennifer worked for AccessLex Institute, a non-profit dedicated to improving access to and the affordability…

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Reframing Burnout

Reframing Burnout Not only because it’s cited as one of the main causes of the Great Resignation, which may permanently reshape how we work, and not only because it’s widespread (can we ever use the metaphor of “epidemic” again?) across workplaces. We have to talk about burnout because we haven’t actually been talking about it this…

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Is Burnout Tired and Worn Out?

Tracy LaLonde, Chief Joychiever I recently attended a conference about attorney engagement and had many conversations about burnout. During one of those discussions, we pondered if the word ‘burnout’ has become overused to the extent that it is losing or has lost its impact. I certainly hope this isn’t the case. While many more people are…

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Beneath, Behind, and Beyond Burnout

Emily Knowles, Psychologist, Consultant and Researcher “The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.” – Lily Tomlin ‘Burnout’ and ‘psychological safety’ are arguably two of the biggest exports from workplace psychology to enter the public lexicon from the Covid-era. Burnout is a long-established and deeply…

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Heartfulness: A Path to Resilience

Henry Emmons, MD Catherine Duncan, MA, BCC We consider heartfulness a key quality to going beyond burnout and actually flourishing and building strong resilience. When you use heartfulness to build resilience, there is less room for something like stress and depression to seep back in. There is nothing more important in one’s lifetime than loving well. But…

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IWIL Executive Director Announcement

The Institute for Well-Being in Law is pleased to announce the hiring of our inaugural executive director, Jennifer DiSanza. Jennifer spent the last two decades working with law students as a student affairs administrator and financial educator. She has worked at three different ABA-approved law schools and is passionate about well-being in the legal profession.…

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Workplace Well-Being and All I Know So Far

Workplace Well-Being and All I Know So Far By Loretta Oleksy, Mindful Life and Work Coach, Thought Kitchen LLC July 1, 2022 It’s heartening to see more people recognizing that workplace culture is tied to employee well-being, and that promoting employee well-being is not only the right thing to do but also positively correlated with…

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Episode 23 Manar Morales

Path To Well-Being In Law – Episode 23: Manar Morales

Manar Sweillam Morales is a national thought leader on women’s leadership, diversity, and workplace flexibility. She serves as President and CEO of the Diversity & Flexibility Alliance – a think tank dedicated to helping organizations create inclusive cultures that advance diversity and flexibility to attract and retain top talent. Manar is a frequent speaker on workplace flexibility, diversity and inclusion,…

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Lia Dorsey - Episode 22

Path To Well-Being In Law – Episode 22: Lia Dorsey

As the Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer at Ogletree Deakins, Lia Dorsey is responsible for the development and execution of the firm’s diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy. Ms. Dorsey collaborates with firm leadership, practice group leaders, and business resource groups to expand and advance efforts in the recruitment, development, promotion and retention of diverse…

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Path To Well-Being In Law – Episode 21: Lindsey Draper

Following his 2006 retirement as a Milwaukee County Circuit Court Commissioner, Lindsey D. Draper oversaw Wisconsin’s adherence to the mandates of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) as the state’s Disproportionate Minority Contact Coordinator and Compliance Monitor until his retirement in 2014.  Draper previously served as Chair of the ABA then-Standing Committee on…

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Matthew Thiese - Episode 19

Path To Well-Being In Law – Episode 19: Matthew Thiese

My research focuses on the overlap between a person’s job and their health.  This includes everything from musculoskeletal disorders like Low Back Pain or Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, to motor vehicle crashes, to COVID-19, to mental well-being.  I am interested in identification of potential risk factors, interventions to prevent injury or illness, evidence-based practice for both…

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Jeff Bunn David Jacobs

Path To Well-Being In Law – Episode 11: David Jacobs & Jeff Bunn

David Jacobs: David is the Chief Executive of The Wellbeing Work Alliance. He is a former practising barrister and in-house lawyer. He is also perhaps the most experienced developer of training programmes currently working in the legal industry. His expertise in creating training programmes dates back to 1987 when he devised, developed and marketed the…

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Path To Well Being In Law – Episode 2: Anne Brafford

Bree and Chris welcome lawyer well-being pioneer Anne Brafford to the podcast, best known for her roles as author of Positive Professionals, co-chair of the ABA Law Practice Division’s Attorney Well-Being Committee, editor-in-chief and co-author of the National Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being’s report The Path to Lawyer Well-Being:  Practical Recommendations for Positive Change, author…

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