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LIVE WEB - How to Stop Hating the Law: A Lesson on Lawyer Mental Health

Master Series presented by the Illinois State Bar Association

Live Webcast
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
1:30 – 2:35 p.m.

1.0 hour MCLE credit, including 1.0* hour Professional Responsibility MCLE credit in the following category: Mental Health & Substance Abuse credit
Attendees will receive a copy of Stuart Teicher’s e-book,
How to Stop Hating the Law: A Path to Hope for Miserable Lawyers ,
 which will be emailed to attendees after the program.
Many lawyers find the practice of law intolerable and, oftentimes, this reality sends lawyers on a downward mental health trajectory. The guidance from outsiders usually sounds like this: Why don’t you leave it? Why not find another job? What they don’t understand is that, for most lawyers, switching careers simply isn’t an option. We have bills to pay and mouths to feed. The only answer is to find some way to make it tolerable. Join us as our speaker, Stuart Teicher, provides mental health direction for attorneys who hate the practice of law. Topics include:
  • Why "compassion fatigue” hits lawyers particularly hard;
  • The unique danger to lawyers of “over functioning”;
  • How finding value and worth in our work helps us create a path to mental health recovery; and
  • The importance of searching for deeper meaning in getting through the struggle of practicing law.
About the Speaker:
Stuart I. Teicher is an attorney and professional legal educator who focuses on ethics law and writing instruction. He helps attorneys get better at what they do through his entertaining and educational CLE performances, which often focuses on the ethical issues in social networking and other technology. He is a Supreme Court appointee to the New Jersey District Ethics Committee where he investigates and prosecutes grievances filed against attorneys. Mr. Teicher is an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown Law where he teaches Professional Responsibility, and an adjunct professor at Rutgers University in New Brunswick where he teaches undergraduate writing courses. His book, Navigating the Legal Ethics of Social Media and Technology , was recently published by Thomson Reuters.
*Professional Responsibility MCLE credit subject to approval


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Program Information

  • Fees:
  • If you cannot attend the live web event, a full refund is available, if you cancel your registration up to the start of the live web event on the program page in your “My CLE Account”. 
  • Please Note: MCLE credit is available to registrants only on the day of this live event – and you must attend the entire program to earn MCLE credit. All registrants will receive access to a recording of the event a few days after the program, but credit is NOT available for the recording.