The Resilient Lawyer with Jeena Cho
Business:Careers
RL 95: Leslie Wallis — Learning to Recognize, Feel, and Deal With the Secondary Trauma Attorneys Can Face
In this episode, I am excited to have Leslie Wallis on to discuss the benefits of compassion, care, and listening while seeing and recognizing secondary trauma that comes with the career.
Leslie Wallis is a shareholder at Ogletree Deakins, where she provides advice and counsel, training, and litigates employment-related matters. Before entering the legal arena, Leslie was a professional ballet dancer. Now she works with individuals and companies as a mindfulness facilitator and speaks about bringing mindfulness programs into the workplace. Her passion is in increasing the breadth of human awareness and introducing anxiety ridden professionals to the concepts of compassion and self-care.
Topics Covered
The underlying trauma of practicing law that most lawyers don’t recognize and how it impacts attorneys. When working in an environment that sometimes hinges on loaded and fiery interactions, be it with opposing counsel, the sitting judge, or our own clients, we can receive a sort of secondary trauma from dealing with other peoples problems. The "c" words that we don't speak (compassion, care "kindness"), how these attributes help you to be a better lawyer, and how this fights the pre-conceived notion that many lawyers have on what being an effective lawyer looks like. Finding the body and learning how to see/feel how different parts of the body are affected by different secondary trauma ailments. She also goes into how dance/movement and the intellectual exercise in law/business can compliment each other. Learning to listen and the effects attentive listening has on Ethics and secular mindfulness
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