QLCC Activities at The Florida Bar Annual Meeting
COMING SOON!
The
Quality of Life & Career Committee will present another great seminar this
June at the 2007 Florida Bar Annual Meeting in Orlando. Check back here for
details or visit the Bar's web site at www.flabar.org
in March to view the Annual Meeting brochure.
After
the seminar, plan to attend the QLCC meeting!
Quality
of Life and Career Committee Meeting
Date and time to be announced soon, or contact the
Committee's Staff Liaison, Judith Equels, at 850-561-5795
QLCC MISSION STATEMENT
The objectives of the Quality of Life and Career Committee are to define those stressors and quality of life issues which affect attorneys and judges, and to develop solutions and increase the awareness of those issues within the legal profession.
The Committee will achieve these objectives by:
 | Reviewing Florida Bar and other available surveys regarding attorney satisfaction and distress | ||||||||||||||
| Contacting other concerned Florida Bar committees to ascertain the stressors and quality of life issues particular to their members | ||||||||||||||
| Identifying existing local bar sponsored support groups focusing on these issues and publishing a directory of these groups for Bar members | ||||||||||||||
| Working with other Bar sections and committees to develop creative solutions and options to address issues of stress and quality of life | ||||||||||||||
| Producing at least one annual CLE seminar in the area if quality of life/stress management | ||||||||||||||
| Educating Bar members in new skills, including:
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Some aids in Stress Management:
| Suggested Principles of Satisfied Lawyers (a QLCC work in progress) |
| Humanizing Legal Education |
| Resources in Diversity & Professionalism |
| Florida Lawyers Assistance |
| ABA Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs |
| The Florida Bar Journal, Dec. 1999 Alcoholism, Depression, Addiction: There is a Solution |
| Stress Management Websites (Links to some helpful resources) |
| Jim Calloway's Law Practice Tips Blog - Quality of Life |
| Attorneys Master Class |
| NIOSH Study: Stress at Work |
| National Institute of Mental Health |
| A Basic Introduction to Depression |
| Mental Health Infosource |
| Professor Barbara Glesner Fines' Orientation Speech (Kansas City School of Law) |
| My Experience With Depression: Brainstorm, A Personal Account by Gary L. Bakke |
| Idealawg: Law as a Healing Profession |