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Law Practice in the Digital Age – Leveraging Technology to Improve Well-Being and Professionalism
Length: 1 Hour
Since the release of the ABA’s influential 2017 report The Path to Lawyer Well-being: Practical Recommendations for Positive Change, the subject of attorney mental health has been a favorite topic among lawyers, mental health practitioners, and other professionals. In the report, the ABA Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being issued multiple recommendations for systemic reforms to the profession with the goal of improving attorney wellness. While system-level change is surely required for long-lasting profession-wide impacts, this presentation will focus on providing practitioner-level hacks that can positively impact well-being and improve professionalism.
Presented by LEAP Legal Software and featuring attorney and established legal industry health and wellness expert Anna Levine, this Continuing Legal Education (CLE) program will focus on the relationship between lawyer well-being, technology, and practice management solutions. Specifically, the presentation will explore practice management best practices and will offer practical tips on how lawyers can optimize the legal practitioner’s mastery of common technology solutions. When implemented correctly, these tips and best practices should not only improve practice efficiency and efficacy but will also elevate lawyers’ well-being and improve their overall adherence to the Rules of Professional Conduct.
This course will benefit attorneys in private practice who work in a law firm environment, from the smallest solo practice to larger multi-office firms. There is no cost to attend this event. CLE credit is pending approval.
Anna Levine, Past Director
Anna Levine is an attorney licensed to practice law in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York whose career has included practice across a wide range of areas, from general corporate/ transactional law to criminal defense and family law. Anna served as the Director of the New Jersey Lawyers Assistance Program from July 2021 to June 2023 and as the Executive Director & CEO of Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers of Massachusetts, Inc. from 2016 through early 2021. Anna is passionate about practice management tips and techniques and loves developing systems, automations and processes that not only improve practice efficacy and efficiency but also elevate practitioner well-being and mental health. In addition to her legal credentials, Anna is also a Massachusetts Certified Peer Specialist and holds a Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of Washington, a Master of Human and Environmental Studies from Kyoto University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Columbia University. Anna served six years as a presidential appointee to the American Bar Association Commission on Lawyers Assistance Programs, three years as a commissioner and an additional three years on the advisory committee to same. She was an instrumental member of both the Massachusetts Supreme Court Steering Committee on Lawyer Well-being as well as the 2022-2023 New Jersey Putting Lawyers First Task Force, both of which spearheaded critical reforms to promote lawyer well-being. Anna resides in New Jersey and can be reached at annalevine@hotmail.com
Sy Sommer, Director of HelpDesk, LEAP Legal Software
Sy Justin Sommer is the Director of Litigation Success at LEAP Legal Software. Sy is a 2010 graduate of Fordham Law School and is an attorney admitted to practice in the State of New York. Sy began his career in the Family Law Department of Manhattan law firm Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP. After three years with DHC, Sy took a role with JPMorgan Chase Bank in Brooklyn, NY where he served as an Associate Vice President Senior Counsel in the bank’s Mortgage Banking Litigation group. In 2018, Sy sought to apply his legal education and experience in the legal technology space and joined LEAP with excitement to further the company’s mission of helping attorneys to be more productive with cloud technology. Despite being a born and raised New Yorker, Sy currently resides in Jersey City, New Jersey.
