During this Legal Update, we will explore the role of mindfulness in both our professional and personal lives. Our discussion will cover topics related to health and wellness, performance, civility, and ethical decision-making. We will also examine the factors that can hinder these goals and how the practice of mindfulness can serve as a stabilizing force to help achieve them. Our conversation will also explore how mindfulness can help us become more attuned to identifying assumptions and biases — both in terms of professionalism and in the context of problem-solving within the practice of law. Because practicing mindfulness is central to our topic, we will learn a popular mindfulness practice that can be helpful in relieving stress and allowing us to see things more clearly.

Co-Sponsored by the New to In-House, Litigation, and Law Department Management Networks.

Applications for accreditation of this activity have been submitted to the MCLE Committees of the State Bars of California and Texas, and to the State Bar of Florida (for 1 hour general, ethics, and professionalism credit) and are pending.

OUR PANELISTS ARE:

Scott Rogers
Founder/Director, Mindfulness in Law Program
University of Miami School of Law
Coral Gables, FL

Scott Rogers is founder and director of the University of Miami School of Law’s Mindfulness in Law Program and co-founder of UMindfulness, the University’s Mindfulness Research & Practice Initiative. A nationally recognized leader, Professor Rogers, has been teaching mindfulness to legal professionals since 1998.  He is the author of five books on mindfulness and his work at Miami Law has appeared in the Wall Street Journal and his research has been written about in the New York Times.

Alexis Firehawk
Shareholder, CHDB Law
Tempe, AZ

Alexis Firehawk is a shareholder at CHDB Law and practices in the areas of community association law, business law, and litigation. She focuses on entity formation and dissolution, securities, general counsel, and civil litigation. Alexis counsels nonprofit and for-profit organizations of all sizes, across industries, regarding business transactions and strategy, capital market transactions, intellectual property disputes, and conflict resolution.

Paul Steven Singerman
Co-Chair & Partner
Berger Singerman LLP
Miami, FL

Paul Singerman is the Co-Chair of Berger Singerman LLP, and he leads the firm’s Business Reorganization Team. For decades, he has been nationally known for handling complex restructuring, insolvency and bankruptcy cases, including loan workouts and cross-border matters. Paul has authored and co-authored a number of articles regarding a variety of mindfulness related topics, and he speaks frequently to lawyers and judges about mindfulness and wellness.

AND, FINALLY, OUR MODERATOR IS:

Gisela M. Munoz
Associate Region Counsel, Florida Region
D. R. Horton, Inc. 

Gisela M. Munoz is currently in-house counsel for national homebuilder, D. R. Horton, Inc., and her 25 years of private and in-house practices have included real estate and corporate transactions.  Among other topics, she has written and presented on Mindfulness for lawyers, on both the local and national levels.  She was listed in Chambers USA: Real Estate in the last three consecutive years of her private practice and was elected a Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys.  Gisela is a graduate of the University of Miami and Yale Law School.

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