About this event
In today's fast-paced legal environment, practitioners often face high levels of stress and burnout due to demanding workloads, tight deadlines, and intense client interactions. The need for mindfulness and well-being practices is rarely prioritized in the legal industry given the nature of work, yet critical for creating a solid foundation where legal professionals can balance their high-stress roles with their well-being.
Through helpful insights from Emily Logan Stedman, a lawyer well-being advocate and seasoned litigation partner at Husch Blackwell, this webinar aims to provide legal professionals with actionable strategies to foster a more balanced, resilient, and fulfilling career in the legal industry. Join us as we explore the transformative power of mindfulness and well-being practices in promoting professional success and personal well-being within law firms.
About the guest speaker:
Emily Logan Stedman, originally from Atlanta, Georgia, has resided in Milwaukee since 2013. After graduating cum laude from Wake Forest University in 2008, she taught 5th Grade in Buckeye, Arizona with Teach for America. Emily pursued law at the University of Mississippi School of Law, graduating magna cum laude in 2013, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Mississippi Law Journal.
Following her clerkship with Judge Pamela Pepper, Emily joined Quarles & Brady in 2016 before transitioning to Husch Blackwell in November 2020 as a commercial litigation partner. Experiencing increased anxiety and low mood in Big Law, Emily has become an advocate for improving well-being within the legal profession, initiating programming during her tenure as president of the Young Lawyers Division of the State Bar of Wisconsin and as a committee chair for the Wisconsin Taskforce on Lawyer Well-Being. She uses her platform on LinkedIn and Twitter/X to openly discuss the realities of being a Big Law attorney and advocate for the destigmatization of lawyer well-being.
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