Mental Health for Legal Professionals Summit (Day Two)
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Date
Thursday, May 20, 2021 (9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.)
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Beth Beattie, CounselMinistry of the Attorney General -
Teresa Donnelly, TreasurerLaw Society of Ontario
As a legal professional, your work could pose real challenges to your mental health every day — even before the pandemic. Those challenges are now multiplied. At this summit, you hear directly from legal professionals who experience mental illness about how they tackle these issues in their professional lives. Speakers discuss the impact of workplace and legal culture on members’ mental health and how to reduce stigma in the legal professions. A must-attend event for paralegals, lawyers, articling and paralegal students, law office diversity committees, and articling principals, you leave with effective tools to address mental health in your legal workplace, and learn how to support your colleagues with mental health issues.
Presenters
- Beth Beattie, Counsel, Ministry of the Attorney General
- Teresa Donnelly, Treasurer, Law Society of Ontario
- Ramz Aziz, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
- Hayley Pitcher, Counsel, Ministry of the Attorney General
- Malini Vijaykumar, Nelligan O'Brien Payne LLP
- Shannon Chace, Legal Director, Ministry of Education / Ministry of Colleges and Universities
- Nikki Gershbain, Chief Inclusion Officer, McCarthy Tétrault LLP
- Charlene Theodore, President, Ontario Bar Association
- Alysia Davies, Staff Clinician, Homewood Health, Inc.
- Leslie Anne St. Amour, Articling Student, Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
- Michael Herman, General Counsel, Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP
- Gregory Ko, Kastner Lam LLP
- Webnesh Haile, Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel LLP
- Dr. Thomas Telfer, Professor, Faculty of Law, Western University
