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Webinar: Rest Assured: The Critical Legal Role of Sleep in Wellness and Attorney Competency
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“Rest Assured: The Critical Legal Role of Sleep in Wellness and Attorney Competency” explores the neuroscience of sleep, its impact on cognitive function, decision-making, and emotional regulation in legal practice. This course highlights how sleep influences attorney wellness, ethical practice, and the ability to meet professional standards in client representation.
Presented by the FBA Professional Development Committee.
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Moderator: Benjamin de Seingalt, Corporate Counsel and Director of Compliance and Privacy, MarketVision Research
Benjamin de Seingalt is the Corporate Counsel and Director of Compliance and Privacy for MarketVision Research, one of the largest primary market research and consulting firms in the United States. His work focuses on global privacy compliance, corporate social responsibility, artificial intelligence, and post-market drug surveillance. Ben is also the Senior Fellow for Artificial Intelligence at the Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation and serves on the Editorial Board for The Federal Lawyer magazine, the board of the Federal Bar Association’s Section on Civil Rights, the BHBIA’s Ethics and Compliance Committee, ESOMAR’s AI Task Force Coordinating Committee, Intellus’ Data Integrity and Artificial Intelligence Task Force, and the Insights Association’s Standards Committee. He is a graduate of Tulane University Law School, the A.B. Freeman School of Business, and Washington College.
Joan Bibelhausen, Executive Director of Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers
Joan Bibelhausen, has served as Executive Director of Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers since 2005. She is nationally recognized for her work in the lawyer assistance and diversity and inclusion realms and has significant additional training in counseling, mental health and addiction, diversity, employment issues, and management. Joan has a passion for reducing the stigma about asking for and offering help to do our best work and live our best lives in the legal profession. She has spent her career working with legal professionals at a crossroads because of mental illness and addiction concerns, well-being, trauma, stress, and related issues. Joan wrote Lawyer Assistance Programs Provide a Lifeline for Juriste International, published in June 2024, coauthored “Stress and Resiliency in the US Judiciary” for the ABA 2020 Journal of the Professional Lawyer, and frequently writes for Minnesota and national bar publications. In 2022 she was recognized by the American Bar Association Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs with a Meritorious Service award in recognition of Extraordinary Service to Lawyer Assistance Programs. She received the Minnesota State Bar Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award for 2024.
Dr. Elizabeth A. Kensinger, Professor, Boston College
Elizabeth A. Kensinger, received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital, she joined the faculty of Boston College, where she is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and Director of the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience laboratory. Her research is supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. She has published over 200 research articles on how factors including sleep, stress, and aging affect memory and emotion, and she co-authored Why We Forget and How to Remember Better (Oxford University Press, 2023).
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- Live Broadcast | FBA Member: $0
- Live Broadcast | Nonmember: $95
- On-Demand Broadcast | FBA Member: $50
- On-Demand Broadcast | Nonmember: $95
CLE
Please note: CLE for this webinar has not been pre-approved.
MyLaw and the FBA will seek 1.0 General CLE credit hours in 60-minute states, and 1.2 General CLE credit hours in 50-minute states.
Posted credit hours are estimated and subject to respective state approval and rounding rules. CLE qualifications vary by state/jurisdiction.
For questions regarding this program, please contact MyLaw CLE by email: registration@mylawcle.com or phone: 877-406-8636.
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