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Dealing with Difficult People: Mindfulness Strategies for Lawyers 2026

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  • Start Date:2026-09-22 14:00:00
  • End Date:2026-09-22 15:00:00
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  • Level:Basic
  • Topics:Professional Skills

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This program is eligible for 1 hour of CLE credit in 60-minute states. In 50-minute states, this program is eligible for 1.2 hours of CLE credit. Credit hours are estimated and are subject to each state’s approval and credit rounding rules.

Overview

When Every Conversation Matters

Every lawyer has encountered them—the demanding client, the combative opposing counsel, the colleague who turns every interaction into a challenge. In a profession where emotions run high and the stakes are even higher, difficult personalities can derail communication, increase stress, and make effective advocacy harder than it needs to be.

Stay Calm. Stay Professional. Stay Effective.

Join Claire E. Parsons—attorney, author, mindfulness and compassion teacher, and founder of the Brilliant Legal Mind blog—for an engaging program that equips lawyers with practical tools to navigate conflict with confidence, professionalism, and resilience. Drawing on mindfulness-based techniques and ethical best practices, Claire will share actionable strategies to help you stay calm under pressure, communicate more effectively, and protect your own well-being while managing challenging legal relationships.

Turn Conflict into Opportunity

Walk away with proven techniques you can immediately apply to reduce stress, maintain composure, and achieve better outcomes when tensions are running high.

You'll Learn How To:

  • Understand the ethical dimensions of attorney well-being and why self-care is essential to competent representation.
  • Identify the underlying causes of difficult behaviors in clients, colleagues, and opposing counsel.
  • Recognize warning signs that conflict is affecting judgment, communication, or professional effectiveness.
  • Use mindfulness and compassion-based practices to remain focused, steady, and effective in challenging situations.
  • Apply practical communication and conflict-management techniques to de-escalate tensions and keep matters moving forward productively.

Learn from a Leader in Lawyer Well-Being

Claire E. Parsons is a lawyer, mindfulness instructor, author, and speaker who helps legal professionals build resilience, manage stress, and improve well-being. Through her practical and engaging approach, she teaches mindfulness skills designed to support lawyers both personally and professionally. She is the founder of the Brilliant Legal Mind blog and author of How to Be a Badass Lawyer and Mommy Needs a Minute. Through her engaging and approachable teaching style, Claire makes mindfulness accessible, practical, and relevant to the unique challenges faced by legal professionals.

Faculty

Claire E. Parsons, Esq.

Claire E. Parsons is a practicing lawyer, certified meditation, mindfulness, and compassion teacher, mom, and prolific writer. Claire started the blog, brilliantlegalmind.com, to share her experience with mindfulness in a practical (and sometimes humorous) voice to help other lawyers and professionals. Her goal is to make mindfulness and meditation enjoyable, accessible, and practical for bus lawyers and professionals. Claire is an attorney in the Cincinnati area. She has practices in the areas of civil litigation, employment law, school law, and municipal law. Claire is an active leader in her community and in the legal profession. Claire currently serves on the wellness committees for her law firm and state and local bar associations. She is also guides meditation for fellow lawyers for the Mindfulness in Law Society’s Virtual Sits and the founder of the MILS Greater Cincinnati Chapter. Claire is a frequent writer and speaker on a wide range of topics. She has published and spoken about legal topics, as well as mindfulness and wellness for lawyers and professionals. Claire is a frequent CLE presenter and has at least one CLE for credit available to watch on-demand on Lawline. She writes regularly on LinkedIn and co-authored a bestselling book in 2020 with 19 other women lawyers. In 2022, Claire published her first book, How to Be a Badass Lawyer: The Unexpected and Simple Guide to Less Stress and Greater Personal Development Through Mindfulness and Compassion. She is also the author of the children’s book, Mommy Needs a Minute. Claire is currently serving as general editor for a legal treatise to be published in 2024. Meditation helped Claire find success and balance in law practice. Early on, though, she struggled with overthinking, anxiety, and depression. Claire began meditating after recovering from a difficult first pregnancy with her oldest daughter, Sophie. Though she started with 1-minute sessions, mindfulness practice changed her life. Meditation even helped her find courage to network, develop business, and grow her law practice. Over the next several years, she continued to study meditation and attend retreats. Claire has been meditating for a decade and has more than 1000 hours of training in mindfulness, yoga, compassion, and mental health. In 2020, Claire completed the meditation teacher certification program with The Mindfulness Center founded by Deborah Norris, Ph.D., to refine her understanding of the science of mindfulness and its practical applications. She then completed the 500-hour yoga teacher training offered by My Vinyasa Practice. In 2022, Claire completed the Compassion Educator Certificate Program offered by the Compassion Education Alliance. More recently, she obtained a certification in pranayama to facilitate breathwork instruction. Though Claire is not a licensed mental health provider or trauma healer, she is trained in trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness, neurodiversity-informed mindfulness, and somatic healing. Claire is also certified as a Mental Health Ally by SHRM and a Mental Health First Aider from Mental Health First Aid USA.

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