CLE in NY - Becoming a More Effective Lawyer: Mindfulness Meditation Practice and Law Practice

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CUNY School of Law's Community Legal Resource Network (CLRN) Presents:
Becoming a More Effective Lawyer: Mindfulness Meditation Practice and Law Practice
Friday, November 13, 2009
9:00am - 5:00pm

New York Insight Meditation Center
28 West 27th Street, 10th floor
New York, NY
Cost: $195; CUNY Law graduates and students, and public interest lawyers: ($45)

4.5 CLE Credits, including 3.5 Ethics and 1 Law Practice Management
This program will introduce lawyers to the practice of mindfulness meditation and its usefulness in the practice of law. Issues to be addressed will include:

• stress management
• contemplative listening
• how to work effectively with difficult colleagues, opposing counsel, and judges
• dealing with law firm and organizational politics
• emotional intelligence, including how to handle being a perfectionist or working with perfectionists
• conflict resolution; negotiating strategies
• the pursuit of happiness by lawyers

You will experience first-hand how mindfulness meditation can help you decrease stress and improve your focus and performance, and join other lawyers, judges, law students and law faculty around the country who utilize mindfulness meditation practice as an innovative tool. The program will include meditation instruction, periods of meditation, presentations, interactive exercises, and open discussion.

Presenter: Robert Chender, Esq. Robert Chender is the director of the NY City Bar Association Contemplative Lawyers Group and is counsel at Seward & Kissel. He has been teaching mindfulness meditation to groups in the U.S. and abroad for over 30 years, most recently specializing in teaching contemplative practices to attorneys. He is a former board chair of the Shambhala Meditation Center of New York.

A fee waiver for economic hardship is available upon written request to Angela Perez. Please RSVP to Angela Perez by November 5, 2009.