Mental Health Summit for Legal Professionals 2023
Date
Tuesday, May 2, 2023 (9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.)
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Beth Beattie, LSM, Senior CounselMinistry of the Attorney General -
Teresa Donnelly, West Region Sexual Violence Crown, Sexual Violence Advisory GroupMinistry of the Attorney General
As recent articles in the legal press confirm, lawyers, paralegals, and law students are at significant risk of confronting mental health and substance use challenges during their professional lives. Join us for this summit as we continue to share the lived experience of legal practitioners, to shine a light on how our experiences can affect our personal and work lives, and to provide each other with practical strategies to support our communities' well-being.
- Consider strategies to confront the effects of burnout on you (and your colleagues) as legal professionals
- Understand how vicarious trauma affects our professions, and what we can do to mitigate it
- Learn how the professions can move towards better health and more inclusivity
- Hear more about innovations in access to mental health supports and care
Presenters
- The Honourable Justice Patrice Band, Ontario Court of Justice
- Beth Beattie, LSM, Senior Counsel, Ministry of the Attorney General
- Steeves Bujold, President, Canadian Bar Association
- Chantale Dallaire, Associate Director, Talent and Professional Development, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
- Teresa Donnelly, West Region Sexual Violence Crown, Sexual Violence Advisory Group, Ministry of the Attorney General
- Michael R. Ferguson, Norman B. Pickell Lawyers and Mediators
- Dr. David Goldbloom, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
- Aidan Johnson, Niagara Community Legal Clinic
- Ronit Kaufman, Staff Clinician, Homewood Health
- Deborah Moriah, Moriah Paralegal: Legal & Admin Services
- Nicole Richmond, Barrister and Solicitor
- Yadesha Satheaswaran, Stockwoods LLP
- Donna Young, Founding Dean, Lincoln Alexander School of Law, Toronto Metropolitan University
