KBA WELLNESS RESOURCES
Click on the links below to view the resources the KBA Wellness Committee compiled. If you would like to join the Wellness Committee or have a resource to share, please email membership@knoxbar.org.
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The KBA’s annual Wellness Conference was initiated by the publishing of the American Bar Association Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs and Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation study that found lawyers, particularly younger lawyers in the first ten years of their practice, are grappling with serious barriers to well-being. According to the report between 21 and 36 percent of lawyers in the study qualify as problem drinkers and 28 percent are struggling with some level of depression. Suicide, social alienation, work addiction, sleep deprivation, job dissatisfaction, a diversity crisis, work-life conflict, incivility, a narrowing of values so that profit predominates, and negative public perception were all cited as major difficulties lawyers are facing.
- Study by the American Bar Association Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs and Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation
- KBA Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers
- How to Save a Life: Lifeguard Training for the Legal Profession
- The Path to Lawyer Well-Being: Practical Recommendations for Positive Change is a report by the National Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being.
- ABA Well-Being Toolkit: For Lawyers and Legal Employers
- Graph: A Continuous process in which lawyers strive for thriving in each dimension of their lives
- Science-Backed Strategies to Boost Resilience for Lawyers
- Pledge Commitment Form
- Self Assessment Too
- DICTA, June 2019 - Schooled in Ethics: NOT FEELING WELL? ATTORNEY WELLNESS AND THE ETHICAL PRACTICE OF LAW
- Recognizing Burnout (Inns of Court program December 2022)
CLE Courses Available
KBA Members are permitted to take on demand courses for free if no CLE credit is requested.
Wellness Conference 2023
Tackling Transformation - A Panel Discussion
Being a Happier Lawyer: What We Can Learn from the Science of Happiness
Wellness Conference 2021
How to Be a Good Neighbor - Addressing Mental Health
Professional Duty of Selfcare - Taking Care of Ourselves and Our Practice
Understanding how Emotions Impact You and Others at Work
Cross-generational Perspectives on Career Success & Work-Life Balance
I'm Tired of Feeling Stressed: Practical Ways to Cope
Financial Wellness Series
A Different Perspective on Building Wealth: Do It Yourself
Alicia Teubert, Anderson Busby PLLC
Alicia Teubert, attorney with Anderson Busby PLLC and chair of the KBA’s Financial Wellness Subcommittee, will discuss how to build wealth on your own. Her discussion will include some of the basic steps to wealth building, some key principles to investing, and some of the factors that can impact your success.
Missed our session on A Different Perspective on Building Wealth: Do It Yourself? Review the program handout!
Mid-Career Stage Financial Wellness
Our panel will discuss the financial elements of owning and operating a small and/or solo law practice, including planning for retirement and budgeting and cash flow, as well as how to balance professional and administrative obligations of small firm and solo practice life with individual interests and personal commitments. The target audience for this program is small firms and solo practitioners, particularly those law practices that are formed but are not yet “well established.”
Featuring:
Mario Azevedo, Landry & Azevedo Attorneys at Law
Caitlin Elledge, Sobieski, Messer & Elledge, PLLC
Rusty Harmon, Smart Bank
Cheryl Rice, Egerton, McAfee, Armistead & Davis, P.C. (moderator)
Vanessa Samano, Samano Family Law
Program Sponsor:
SmartBank offers a range of customizable banking solutions to cater to both your personal and professional financial needs.
Retirement Planning Steps
Financial wellness is not something anyone really wants to talk about or address. By not talking about the financial problems that lawyers are facing, many lawyers feel isolated and overwhelmed. The KBA Wellness Committee has created a Financial Wellness Series to start the conversation about financial planning for attorneys in all stages of their careers. No matter how close or how far you are from retirement, you can take steps to better enjoy retirement in the future. Participate in a discussion with KBA members John Billings and Amelia Crotwell on tips to develop a plan to make preparing for retirement more manageable.
Featuring:
John Billings, TCV Trust & Wealth Management
Amelia Crotwell, Elder Law of East Tennessee
TCV Trust & Wealth Management provides the highest quality asset management, trust administration, and estate services to individuals and families through objective advice, competitive results and personal service.
DICTA Articles: How to Thrive in Law & Life
March 2024: Well-Being Strategies to Boost Mood and Reduce Depression
January 2024: How to Fuel Your Performance and Well-Being with Food
September 2023: How to Navigate Change
May 2023: How to Drink Less Alcohol - Part 2
March 2023: How to Drink Less Alcohol - Part 1
January 2023: How to Set and Achieve Goals
November 2022: How to Stay Motivated
September 2022: How to Set Boundaries
June 2022: How to Rest Well
April 2022: How to Master Your Mindset
February 2022: How to Live a Life with Less Stress
September DICTA 2023 feature:
'Wellness Committee Takeover!'
In September 2023, the Wellness Committee took over the entirety of DICTA with health and wellness articles. Check them out below:
Critical Focus
5 President’s Message
Hurry Up and Wait
7 Practice Tips
Product Liability: Better Know Your Repose
13 Management Counsel
TLAP: Identifying Mental Health Issues and Getting Help
15 Legal Update
TLAP and Mental Health: When Mediation and Yoga are Just Not Enough
21 Schooled in Ethics
New ABA Formal Ethics Opinion Discusses Constraints on Nonlawyer Assistants' Intake Role
25 Management Counsel
Surviving In-House Legal Management
Wisdom
8 Privileged to Be a Lawyer
There is Not One Way to be a Lawyer
9 Wellness Journey - Part I
Cycling and the Art of Soul Maintenance
10 How to Thrive in Law & Life
How to Navigate Change
11 Wellness Journey - Part II
Be Kind to Every Kind
13 Wellness Journey - Part III
What a Pain
18 Simple Things
One Can
20 Top Ten
Tips for Trail Running
23 Of Local Lore & Lawyers
Tribal Law: Lessons from the Cherokee
27 Legally Weird
Change and Become a Better Lawyer
31 Tell Me A Story
Harmoniously Coexist
Help When You Need It Most
The Knoxville Bar Association's Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers Program is a confidential program to assist lawyers, law firms and families of lawyers suffering from alcoholism, addiction or other mental or emotional problems that impair the lawyers' ability to practice law. All communication with the LCFL committee is confidential.
Get assistance in identifying, treating and recovering from these illnesses. It's a free, confidential membership service of the Knoxville Bar Association.
For more information, please contact Committee Chairs Jim Cornelius at 292-2515 or John Butler at 244-3925.
TENNESSEE LAWYERS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (TLAP)
(877) 424-TLAP
Ted Rice, Executive Director
QPR Stands for: Question, Persuade, and Refer
3 simple steps that anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide.
Just as people trained in CPR and the Heimlich maneuver help save thousands of lives each year, people trained in QPR learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help. QPR is not intended to be a form of counseling or treatment. QPR is intended to offer hope through positive action.
When you apply QPR, you plant the seeds of hope. Hope helps prevent a suicide. You have to take care of yourself to be a lifeguard!
Learn more from Amy Dolinsky, the East Tennessee Regional Coordinator of the Tennessee Suicide Prevention Network (tspn.org).