Wellness: Practical Solutions for Achieving Long-Term Lawyer Wellness (Online Seminar)

MCLE Credits: 1.0
Ethics Credits Included: 0.0

MCLE Credit:	1.0 (Ethics: 0.0)
Live-Interactive Credit:	0.0
Price:	$79 (Includes a downloadable audio version.)
Viewable Through:	12/31/2022

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A pre-recorded streaming video replay of the November 2019 webcast, Wellness: Practical Solutions for Achieving Long-Term Lawyer Wellness.

In 2020, Virginia lawyers, judges, and law students may take up to two pre-defined wellness courses through the Virginia Law Foundation/Virginia CLE free of charge. These courses have been developed in response to the efforts of the Supreme Court of Virginia and the Virginia Lawyers’ Wellness Initiative. Learn more.

Lawyers outpace the general population in rates of suicide, depression, alcoholism, substance abuse, and chronic stress. Evidence suggests that this is not a coincidence, but rather the result of the unique combination of occupational hazards that lawyers face throughout their careers.
Learn to identify those occupational risks that cannot be mitigated while taking action to manage or eliminate those that can.
If we can't take care of ourselves, how can we expect to take care of our clients?
An introduction to wellness issues in the legal profession;
An exploration of how the unique combination of occupational risks facing lawyers has led our profession to significantly outpace the general population in rates of depression, alcoholism, and substance abuse; and
Proposed solutions for managing and mitigating occupational risks and stressors, both at the individual and law firm levels, in order to maximize long-term attorney health, wellness, productivity, and retention.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Nikky Hindle, NOVA Sports Nutrition, LLC / Fairfax

Nikky is the owner and co-founder of NOVA Sports Nutrition, LLC, a boutique dietetics and wellness practice in Fairfax, Virginia, where she serves a diverse clientele that includes amateur, collegiate, and professional athletes, as well as legal professionals ranging from solo practitioners to Am Law 100 attorneys. Nikky focuses her practice on individual nutrition counseling, personal training, and creating meal and workout plans that are specifically tailored to each client's unique needs.

In addition to providing sports nutrition and corporate wellness services, Nikky provides specialized counseling and medical nutrition therapy for individuals with conditions such as diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and eating disorders, and has presented group nutrition and wellness seminars to sports teams, government employees, condominium associations, and pharmacy programs. Prior to co-founding NOVA Sports Nutrition, Nikky worked as a clinical dietitian in the addiction recovery field.

Nikky earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Penn State University and subsequently completed her dietetic internship through Cedar Crest College, where her work experience included rotations at Penn State Sports Nutrition and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Nikky is a Registered Dietitian (RD) licensed by the Commission on Dietetic Registration and a Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) certified by the National Council on Strength and Fitness.

Frank Gulino, Esq., NOVA Sports Nutrition, LLC / Fairfax

Frank is a co-founder of NOVA Sports Nutrition, LLC, a boutique dietetics and wellness practice in Fairfax, Virginia, where he leads the company's business operations and focuses on issues of lawyer wellness. Prior to co-founding NOVA Sports Nutrition, Frank spent five years practicing business and employment law in Tysons and was named a Virginia “Rising Star” in the area of business litigation.

Having experienced firsthand several of the unique challenges that attorneys face on a regular basis, Frank seeks to be an agent of change in a profession that has seen its practitioners suffer disproportionately from a number of physical, mental, and emotional ailments that can be traced to job-related stressors and wellness deficiencies. In order to be a good lawyer, one must first be a healthy lawyer, and Frank remains committed to helping Virginia law firms find opportunities to improve the health and effectiveness of their legal professionals.

Outside of his work with NOVA Sports Nutrition, Frank is the award-winning composer of nearly 40 original musical works that have been performed extensively across the United States as well as at venues in Argentina, Estonia, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Mexico, Panama, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and Uruguay. Frank holds degrees from Johns Hopkins University (B.M., 2010) and George Mason University School of Law (J.D., 2013).