Mindful Practices for Immigration Lawyers that Promote Resiliency, Wellness, and Ethical Behavior
| Live Event Date: 05/06/2025 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Format | Length | CLE Eligible |
| Web Seminar | 90 min. | Yes |
Immigration lawyers are encountering policy changes and political pressures that can negatively affect their well-being. In this charged environment, mindful communication is essential for balancing ethical integrity with effective advocacy. Our expert panelist will provide mindfulness strategies for immigration attorneys to help them navigate ethical dilemmas, manage difficult conversations, and build resiliency within themselves.
Featured Topics:
- Communicating with clients in distress while maintaining professional boundaries
- Building resiliency and staying committed to the cause
- Using mindfulness techniques to enhance decision making
- Fostering trust, transparency, and ethical advocacy in complex cases
- How mindfulness practice relates to an attorney’s ethical obligations under Rules of Professional Conduct 1.2 (Allocation of Duties), 1.4 (Communication), and 5.1-5.3 (Supervision)
This seminar is presented as a part of AILA's Well-Being Week In Law 2025.
Eligible participants can receive up to 1.8 CLE credit hours. AILA will administer CLE credit only to individuals who register and log into the web seminar. AILA cannot verify your attendance and participation in this program unless you register directly for the web seminar and use your name to log in to participate in the program. Therefore, persons who log in or listen in on the web seminar as part of a group will not be able to obtain CLE credit.
Please note that your jurisdiction may limit the amount of distance learning credit you can earn. To view details on your jurisdiction's credit restrictions and CLE requirements, visit the CLE Center.
AILA has filed for CLE and specialized credit in all jurisdictions with mandatory CLE requirements. For details about specific approvals, contact us at cle@aila.org.
- AILA applies for accreditation upon attorneys’ request after participation for the following states: AR, DE, IA, ID, KS, KY, LA, ME, MN, MS, OR, TN and WY. Programs are typically approved.
- Florida and Rhode Island - Attorneys must apply on their own for approval of seminars in FL and RI. Programs are typically approved.
- The OnDemand Recording format does not qualify for CLE credit in the following jurisdictions: MO and PR. Please note that your jurisdiction may limit OnDemand credit based on the date of the original presentation. View the OnDemand Downloadable Expiration Chart for more details.
To receive CLE credit for the live event, attorneys must record web seminar attendance and the CLE code provided within one week of the web seminar date via webCLE.
Contact us at cle@aila.org or visit AILA’s Web Seminar Recordings page for more information about receiving CLE credit for a seminar recording.
Judi Cohen, Mindfulness Expert, Lawyer and Founder of Warrior One, Sonoma, CA
Judi Cohen (she/her) is an attorney, law professor, and 35-year student of mindfulness and yoga. She is a lecturer at Berkeley Law, where she teaches Mindfulness for the Legal Mind, a course to encourage students to explore mindfulness to support personal wellbeing, create a more just, equitable society, and cultivate a more harmonious relationship with the planet. Judi is also the founder of Warrior One, which offers programs for legal professionals that integrate traditional mindfulness, contemplative neuroscience, and the psychology of the legal mind. In 2015, Judi co-created Warrior One’s Mindfulness in Law Teacher Training, an eight-month program for legal professionals to deepen their mindfulness practice and learn to teach mindfulness in the profession. In 2016, she began the Wake Up Call for Lawyers, a weekly, live-online mindfulness gathering and podcast approaching its 500th episode. A founding board member and past co-president of the board of directors for the Mindfulness in Law Society, Judi currently serves as chair of the MILS Teachers Collective. She is also a co-facilitator of Yes World’s Law and Social Change Jam, an annual gathering of legal professionals exploring personal, interpersonal, and systemic change in the law and world. Judi lives in Sonoma, California, on the lands of the Pomo, Miwok, and Coast Miwok tribes.
