Continuing Legal Education
The Gruntled Lawyer's Survival Guide: Stay Sane, Stay Licensed
Date:
Sept. 15, 2026
Time:
Nobody puts this in the Rules of Professional Conduct: you can't be diligent, competent, or clear-headed with clients when you're running on fumes. Burnout doesn't just wreck your weekends. It shows up in missed deadlines, short tempers, sloppy communication, and the kind of poor judgment that gets you a bar complaint.
Alan Klevan and Wendy Meadows have both lived it. Disgruntled lawyer to gruntled lawyer, and back again more times than either of them would like to admit. In this session, they're skipping the theory and getting into the real stuff: what burnout actually looked like for them, what pulled them out of it, and what they do now to stay out of it.
Then it's brass tacks. Twenty real, usable tips, connected straight back to the ethics rules that actually govern how lawyers practice. No fluff. No "just meditate more." Just the practical moves that keep you sane, sharp, and licensed.
By the end of this session, attendees will be able to:
- Identify the specific competence, diligence, and communication rules most commonly compromised by burnout and depletion.
- Recognize the early warning signs of professional burnout in themselves and their colleagues before it becomes a disciplinary issue.
- Apply at least three of the 20 presented strategies immediately in their own practice.
- Build a personal, sustainable wellness practice that directly supports their ethical obligations, not one that competes with them.
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