To assist solicitors to meet their MCLE obligations the Law Society is offering a free 1-day seminar program in Broken Hill on Monday 18 June 2012.

The program is being held in co-ordination with the Far West Law Society and will run from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.

This workshop will help you to recognise and understand the pressures of practice that can lead to poor mental health, poor decisions and poor outcomes.

You will come away with a toolkit of strategies, including case studies, information and resources, to assist you.

• Seminar 1 deals with the nature of the law and its stressors


• Seminar 2 deals with unhelpful behaviours of clients and colleagues


• Seminar 3 covers workload and vicarious trauma


• Seminar 4 covers understanding, preventing and responding


• Seminar 5 provides strategies to help you stay well at work.
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Comments from participants

"Thank you!! For funding and delivering such a program. Very relevant and very informative."


"I learnt so much from the day."


"Good presenter - passionate and knowledgeable. . .well aware of the stresses faced by lawyers."


"it was the best seminar I attended in years. . . I wish I had attended such a seminar in 1963."

Cost: The seminar is free. Places are limited and allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

To register: registration form.

CLE guidelines: If this program is relevant to your immediate or long-term needs in relation to your professional development and practice of the law, then you should claim one 'unit' for each hour of attendance, refreshment breaks excluded.