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Exercise your Mind by Listening to Legal Podcasts

Tune in to April Podcasts for mental wellness.

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As a lawyer, your physical and mental health often gets pushed to the backburner in favor of just getting the job done. But it is gradually becoming more apparent that lawyers, as cool as they are, are not machines and need to pay attention to their wellness just as much as anyone else. This month at Legal Talk Network, wellness was a theme in multiple episodes, as well as physical safety and mental health at law school. When you’ve had enough of wellness, there were also shows that covered current events, like gun violence and the reliability of social media from a legal perspective. So if you’re feeling particularly stressed and want to learn what your firm can do to promote wellness or just looking for the legal perspective of current events, check out some of the podcasts below.

Podcasts for Mental Wellness:

How firms can encourage mental, emotional and physical fitness

Wellness may seem like something employees achieve on their own time, but there are ways that employers can encourage mental and physical health in the workplace. Jolene Park, founder of Healthy Discoveries, discusses creating employee wellness programs and other ways you can make a health-friendly firm.

Conspiracy and Resilience, an interview with Ryan Holiday

What can lawyers learn from the Gawker-Hulk Hogan lawsuit? Ryan Holiday discusses this along with the resilience lawyers can glean from modern stoicism.

Physical Security and Workplace Violence

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Workplace violence might seem like a distant reality but it’s important to know how to handle a dangerous situation. Deputy M. Dean Crump discusses how to train employees to properly deal with terminations, physical security measures, and how to prepare for an active shooter situation.

Maintaining Mental Health at Law School

It can be hard to maintain mental wellness as a law student because of established stigmas and a lack of available resources. Alexandria Gilbert, Nick DeFiesta, and Caroline Phillips discuss how current students are working to change this and establish law school as a safe and healthy environment.

Overcoming Addiction and Achieving Wellness as a Lawyer

For lawyers struggling with addiction, stigmas, lack of support, and the fear of consequences can make the situation seem hopeless. Brian Cuban talks about handling the problem of addiction before you have to deal with its consequences both as a lawyer and as an employer.

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 Podcasts for Mental Growth:

Safe Ways to Use Facebook

Facebook and its relationship with Cambridge Analytica have swept through the news and sparked questions about whether Facebook can be trusted with your information. Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell discuss the tricks that will help make your Facebook account more secure.

Uncovering the secret history of how corporations gained their civil rights

Should corporations have the same rights as humans? Adam Winkler, author of We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights, shares what he learned from his investigation into how corporations have achieved constitutional protections.

Disparagement, Contempt, and Disrepute

Simon Tam named his band “The Slants” in order to reclaim the word and empower their culture, but the United States Patent and Trademark Office denied the application and refused to register the name as a trademark, citing the term as “disparaging.” His case made it all the way to the Supreme Court and set a First Amendment precedent.

Should We Regulate Video Game Violence?

After the recent school shooting in Florida, the topic of video games and their impact on children and teenagers has cropped up as a potential cause of gun violence. Cheryl Olson and Kevin Saunders discuss regulation of video game violence and the Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association 2011 ruling.

The Love and Divorce Edition

Family law is a rewarding but difficult area of the law that Miles Beermann and Kimberly Cook are extremely familiar with. In this episode, they talk about the state of marriage and divorce in the U.S. and their experiences on the front lines representing clients in the contentious area of divorce and family law.

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