• videocam Live Webinar with Live Q&A
  • calendar_month June 17, 2026 @ 1:00 PM ET/10:00 AM PT
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  • card_travel Ethics and Specialty Credits
  • schedule 90 minutes

Sustainable Lawyering: Burnout Prevention, Wellness, Communication, and Ethical Duties

Safeguarding Competence, Professional Judgment, and Wellbeing Under Chronic Stress

$197.00

This course is $0 with these passes:

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About the Course

Introduction

This CLE webinar will examine how lawyer burnout, chronic stress, and work overload affect one's ability to ethically practice, serve the client, and use professional judgment. The panel will explore how to recognize burnout and impairment through common warning signs, and how to put into practice the boundaries that enable wellness.

Description

Lawyers manage heavy workloads with numerous client demands, adversarial interactions, and volumes of communication.  These demands may lead to exhaustion, misfocus, deadline challenges, and more. Beyond personal wellness concerns, such impairment may bring professional responsibility concerns in the areas of attorney competence, diligence, communication, and supervision.

Listen as our panel discusses how burnout and chronic stress impact ethical lawyering, how attorneys can detect and manage warning signs before professional consequences occur, and how lawyers can enable practices to protect well-being.

Credit Information

  • This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.

  • An excellent opportunity to earn Ethics CLE credits. Note: BARBRI cannot guarantee that this course will be approved for ethics credits in all states. To confirm, please contact our CLE department at pdservice@barbri.com.


  • Live Online


    On Demand

Date + Time

  • event

    Wednesday, June 17, 2026

  • schedule

    1:00 PM ET/10:00 AM PT

I. Burnout in legal practice: sources, impacts

II. Ethical duties relevant to burnout and chronic stress

III. Recognizing the signs for yourself and others

IV. Setting boundaries

V. Responses to a colleague impacted by burnout or stress

VI. Building a supportive and healthy culture

VII. Resources

The panel will explore these and other key areas:

  • Spotting signs of burnout, chronic stress, and potential impairment
  • How burnout impacts competence, diligence, communication, judgment, and client service
  • Professional responsibility issues coming from stress or impairment
  • Setting and communicating boundaries: clients, colleagues, supervisors, opposing counsel, and courts
  • Balancing workloads: delegation, technology use and time limits, deadline management
  • What to do when a colleague might be struggling
  • Confidential lawyer assistance, peer support, and intervention resources