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Balancing the Scales: Wellness Tools and Workshop for Legal Professionals


Total Credits: 3 CLE, 3 Ethics

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Ethics |  Stress or Substance Abuse
Faculty:
Matthew F Schmidt

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The complicated dynamics of the modern world combined with the demanding legal industry makes this profession one of the most stressful in the world.  Now, maintaining our sanity while trying to balance work, home, school, and other personal life goals seems utterly impossible.  To maintain our sanity, wellness is playing an increasingly important role in our career and our lives. 

Matt Schmidt is a lawyer and certified wellness coach who has been teaching stress management and wellness strategies to lawyers and the general community for over seven years. 

In the first part of this seminar, Matt will provide a Wellness 101 crash course that will provide tools and tricks to increase production, well-being, and happiness.  In the second part of the seminar, Matt will guide participants through a group wellness coaching session designed to help legal professionals clarify their core values and develop a personalized action plan to improve an area of their professional or personal lives.

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Matt Schmidt, Schmidt, Sethi & Akmajian

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Matthew Schmidt is a partner at Schmidt Sethi & Akmajian, a plaintiff's firm in Tucson, Arizona focused on complex personal injury law. Matt graduated from the James E Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona and passed the Arizona bar exam in 2010. Matt's primary interest in law focuses on general personal injury, insurance bad faith and police misconduct. Matt was honored as one of Tucson's 40 under 40 by the Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the Arizona Daily Star in 2014. In addition to serving his clients, Matt is president of the Engage Foundation, a nonprofit that provides free, fun and underrated recreational activities to underprivileged kids. Matt is a certified Wellness Coach, teaching the legal and general community about stress management; He writes a column called "Mind your Mind" in the Writ, the Pima County Bar Association Newsletter. In May 2011, Matt won 2nd place in the Arizona Attorney's creative arts competition for his fictional piece "The Taker." In June 2010, Matt and his dad (Ted Schmidt) co-authored "Taking the 'Strict' Out of Products Liability Law," a feature article in the Arizona Attorney. Together, they also co-authored multiple sections of the Products Liability chapter of the 2012 Arizona Tort Law Handbook published by the State Bar of Arizona. In law school, Matt served as a legal extern for Senator Jon Kyl in Washington D.C. on the Judiciary Committee for the subcommittee of Terrorism, Technology, and Homeland Security in the Fall of 2008. He won the Andrew Silverman Law Student Community Service Award in the 2009-2010 for his leadership on the Community Service Board and orchestration of several community service events for law students to participate in. When he is not practicing law, writing or traveling, Matt enjoys participating in or watching just about any sporting event. Matt also enjoys staying active in the community and spends lots of time growing Engage.


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