How to Deal with Bullying Behavior from Opposing Counsel (2023 Edition)

Shawn Healy, PhD
Shawn Healy, PhD | Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers

Shawn Healy is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and a member of the clinical staff at Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers in Boston, Massachusetts where he provides individual clinical consultations and groups to law students, lawyers, and judges.

On-Demand: June 15, 2023

$195.00 1.5 hour CLE

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Program Summary

How do you deal with bullying behavior from opposing counsel without becoming a bully in return? Does the adversarial nature of law require aggressive behavior to be successful? There is a difference between being a zealous advocate for your client and being a bully.

In this program you will learn about how to identify; your reactions to aggressive opposing counsel, the potential goals of aggressive/bullying tactics, strategies within your direct control to increase your resilience to such tactics, and techniques for reinterpreting such tactics as to significantly decrease their effectiveness.

Key topics to be discussed:

  • When work feels like battle
  • Mixed Martial Arts: Specific plan vs. general plan
  • Develop a General Strategy
  • The burdens we cannot control
  • Take care of yourself
    • How do we take care of ourselves?
    • What is in your control?
    • Physical, Mind/Body, Psychological, Social
  • Be Prepared
    • How do we prepare?
    • Two common approaches
    • Become a martial arts master
    • All about perception
    • Separating out the components
    • Reinterpret it
    • How does it need to be addressed?
  • Key factors
  • Advice for Allies

Date / Time: December 20, 2023

Closed-captioning available

Speakers

Shawn Healy, PhD_Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers in BostonShawn_myLawCLEShawn Healy, PhD | Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers

Shawn Healy is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and a member of the clinical staff at Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers in Boston, Massachusetts where he provides individual clinical consultations and groups to law students, lawyers, and judges. He regularly presents and publishes on all manner of mental health topics germane to the legal community.

Dr. Healy is also the coauthor of the book The Full Weight of the Law: How Legal Professionals Can Recognize and Rebound from Depression (ABA Publication, 2017). He can be reached via email at shawn@lclma.org.

Agenda

I. When work feels like battle | 2:00pm – 2:15pm

II. Mixed Martial Arts: Specific plan vs. general plan | 2:15pm – 2:30pm

III. Develop a General Strategy | 2:30pm – 2:45pm

IV. The burdens we cannot control | 2:45pm – 2:50pm

V. Take care of yourself | 2:50pm – 3:00pm

  1. How do we take care of ourselves?
  2. What is in your control?
  3. Physical, Mind/Body, Psychological, Social

Break | 3:00pm – 3:10pm

VI. Be Prepared | 3:10pm – 3:20pm

  1. How do we prepare?
  2. Two common approaches
  3. Become a martial arts master
  4. All about perception
  5. Separating out the components
  6. Reinterpret it
  7. How does it need to be addressed?

VII. Key factors | 3:20pm – 3:30pm

VIII. Advice for Allies | 3:30pm – 3:40pm