Health & Wellness Committee

In 2021 you can count on the Health and Wellness Committee on the 3rd Wednesday of every month for programming and activities focused on the wellbeing of our members and the legal profession. This month join us as we discuss “What Are You Hungry For: The Chopra Solution to Permanent Weight Loss, Well-Being, and Lightness of Soul”, by Deepak Chopra, MD. Read more

Resilience is a critical resource for lawyers that has become even more important during the COVID pandemic. The field of positive psychology provides the foundation for many activities that can be incorporated into every-day life (even during quarantine) to foster well-being and bolster positive emotions to promote resilience and preserve mental health during this difficult time. Read more

With all that has gone on in 2020, it is time that we take a fresh look at how we are feeling about the changes in our world and how we have responded to loss and uncertainty. All of us feel the stress and anxiety of loss, change and uncertainty and many of us need help to readjust, adapt or reset. The size and scope of what we are collectively feeling is big and it feels different than anything we have previously experienced. Read more

There are hundreds. If not thousands, of exercise videos available for free on You Tube! They run the gamut from cardio, resistance training, High Interval Training (HIT), to pilates, yoga, Zumba and more. I prefer to watch them and participate on my large screen TV, but you could watch on a phone, laptop or tablet. To get them on my smart TV, I just get it to the right “input” screen and I speak into the remote control. I start… Read more

CLA offers regular come-as-you-are, informal opportunities to chat with fellow attorneys from around the state via Zoom. This week, we will be joined by the Health and Wellness Committee to consider some strategies and tips to achieve long-term sanity and well-being as we continue to navigate through the pandemic.  Bring a friend or a colleague, all are welcome regardless of membership!     Register Read more

M.A. is a transactional attorney practicing intellectual property and business/corporate law, including working with entrepreneurs and start-ups on their patents, trademarks, copyrights, protection of trade secrets, and compliance training of employees. Before coming to law, she spent 13 years doing biomedical research, including co-authoring a dozen publications of original research in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Read more

The practice of law is one of the most stressful and intense professions in existence, yet very few lawyers have ever received training on how stress and other mental/emotional challenges impair cognitive functioning and the competent practice of law. Read more