Total Credits: 7.6 MCLE, 7.6 Ethics
Join us for the 29th Annual Missouri Lawyers' Assistance Program Conference
November 1, 2024
In-person | The Missouri Bar Center | 326 Monroe St. | Jefferson City
or Virtual
8–8:30 a.m. | Registration and breakfast
8:30–9:50 a.m. | From junkie to judge: Overcoming addiction and resources for attorneys
Speaker: Mary Beth O’Connor
9:50-10 a.m. | Break
10-11 a.m. | The legal athlete: How a holistic approach to practice can reduce burnout and stress
Athletes require high levels of physical and mental energy and motivation in order to perform at their best. To make sure of this they spend time before the game and after the game ensuring all areas of their practice are on point. They work on both their physical health and mental health.
Speaker: Michael C. Reed, Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Jefferson City
11-11:15 a.m. | Break
11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m. | The lines of trauma: Ethical and practical considerations
Whether attorneys suffer their own trauma, or have clients who have been exposed to trauma, understanding the ethical and practical considerations of trauma is essential. The presentation will include perspectives as a litigator, client, neutral, arbitrator, and advisor, and how viewing trauma through various lenses can improve access to justice, judicial efficiency, and lawyer and client well-being.
Speaker: Laurel E. Stevenson, Director, Federal District Court, Kansas City
12:15–1:00 p.m. | Lunch (provided)
1-3 p.m. | The lawyers in balance: Techniques for stress management and emotional resilience
Legal practitioners face unique challenges that often lead to stress and emotional strain. This transformative workshop is tailored specifically for lawyers, focusing on building resilience and utilizing HeartMath (Heart Rate Variability training) techniques to maintain emotional equilibrium amidst the high-pressure demands of the legal profession. Lawyers will learn the same practices taught at NASA and throughout the world where high performance and high stakes go hand in hand.
Speaker: Sheila R. Pride, The Moksha Group, St. Louis
3-3:15 p.m. | Break
3:15–4:15 p.m. | Narcissism in the legal profession
Speaker: Timothy W. Roldan, Law Offices of Timothy W. Roldan, LLC, St. Louis
4:15 p.m. | Adjourn
Moderator: Charles H. Lonardo, St. Joseph
Opinions and positions stated by presenters of MoBarCLE programs are those of the presenters and not necessarily those of The Missouri Bar. This program is intended as information for lawyers in Missouri, in conjunction with other research they deem necessary, in the exercise of their independent judgment.
Mary Beth has been sober since 1994. Her story is chronicled in her memoir From Junkie to Judge: One Woman’s Triumph Over Trauma and Addiction. She’s had essays in such publications as The Wall Street Journal and Recovery Today.
Mary Beth is a Director for She Recovers Foundation and LifeRing Secular Recovery. She regularly speaks on behalf of these organizations and about multiple and secular paths to recovery. She develops relationships with other organizations, such as Women for Sobriety. And Mary Beth trains attorneys and medical professionals about substance use disorder and recovery.
In recovery, Mary Beth attended Berkeley Law. In 2014 she was appointed a federal Administrative Law Judge, from which position she retired early in 2020.
Sheila Pride is the CEO of The Moksha Group.
Sheila Pride is a strategic business partner for organizations working to elevate leadership and team capacity within organizations. Sheila is a licensed trauma therapist, leadership coach, international educator and has 15 years of business leadership coaching and enterprise wide consulting in her background. She specializes in offering culture shaping, communication training, resiliency and burnout prevention and specializes in supporting high conflict teams successfully resolving their issues. She is a certified in Safe Conversations, Heartmath Institute, UpLedger Institute, & Somatic Therapies.
Michael Reed currently serves as Assistant General Counsel in the Office of General Counsel for the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. Michael received his law degree from Villanova University, Charles Widger School of Law. Before the practice of law, Michael served in the United States Army as an infantry soldier.
Tim Rldan is a professional hybrid with graduate and post-graduate educational tracks, training, and experience in the Biopsychosocial Model (Social Work), Law, and Psychodynamic Theory. He maintains private practices as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and also as a Licensed Attorney. Tim is a Certified Clinical Social Work Supervisor, and provides Ethics Mediation, nationally for the NASW Leadership, and serves as a Board Member for the NASW-MO. As an Attorney he is Certified in Health Law and Labor Law, a Certified GAL, a Mediator, a Parent Coordinator, provides forensic supervision, consultations, and forensic services to therapists across the State of Missouri. He is also the recipient of the Family Rights and Equal Parenting Award (2021): “Award and Leadership Recognition For Equal Parenting & Family Court Reform Advocacy.”
Tim’s cross-disciplinary integration offers him insights and expertise in a number of areas embedded within the Mental Health and Legal Professions. His focus on Social Justice advocacy is client-centered, and with his unique qualifications, he is in development of innovative approaches in civil litigation and pertaining to psychotherapeutic tools and theory based on the systemic nexus that may lay hidden, yet are embedded, in therapeutic processes and litigation.
Tim Rldan is a professional hybrid with graduate and post-graduate educational tracks, training, and experience in the Biopsychosocial Model (Social Work), Law, and Psychodynamic Theory. He maintains private practices as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and also as a Licensed Attorney. Tim is a Certified Clinical Social Work Supervisor, and provides Ethics Mediation, nationally for the NASW Leadership, and serves as a Board Member for the NASW-MO. As an Attorney he is Certified in Health Law and Labor Law, a Certified GAL, a Mediator, a Parent Coordinator, provides forensic supervision, consultations, and forensic services to therapists across the State of Missouri. He is also the recipient of the Family Rights and Equal Parenting Award (2021): “Award and Leadership Recognition For Equal Parenting & Family Court Reform Advocacy.”
Tim’s cross-disciplinary integration offers him insights and expertise in a number of areas embedded within the Mental Health and Legal Professions. His focus on Social Justice advocacy is client-centered, and with his unique qualifications, he is in development of innovative approaches in civil litigation and pertaining to psychotherapeutic tools and theory based on the systemic nexus that may lay hidden, yet are embedded, in therapeutic processes and litigation.
Laurel Stevenson is the Director of the Mediation and Assessment Program (MAP) for the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri. Prior to joining the Court, Laurel was a litigator for more than two decades, and served as a Facilitator for the Missouri Bar's Complaint Resolution Program and Fee Dispute Resolution Program in addition to serving as an arbitrator or mediator. In 2023, she was selected as Fellow to the Dispute Resolution Committee of the American Bar Association and serves on the Court ADR Committee. She has conducted hundreds of mediations, including more than 250 via Zoom.
326 Monroe St., Jefferson City, Missouri 65101, United States
(573) 635-4128
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| Availability | Module Title | Speaker | Credits | Course Type | Duration | Course Details |
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| Nov 01, 2024 @ 08:30 AM (CDT) |
2024 Annual Missouri Lawyers' Assistance Program Conference Virtual Sessions (qualifies for 7.6 ethics)
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Total Credits: 7.6 MCLE | Webcast | 7 Hours 45 Minutes | More info » |
