How to Deal with Bullying Behavior from Opposing Counsel (2023 Edition)

Shawn Healy, PhD | Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers

Shawn Healy is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and a member of the clinical staff at Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers in Boston, Massachusetts where he provides individual clinical consultations and groups to law students, lawyers, and judges. He regularly presents and publishes on all manner of mental health topics germane to the legal community.

Dr. Healy is also the coauthor of the book The Full Weight of the Law: How Legal Professionals Can Recognize and Rebound from Depression (ABA Publication, 2017). He can be reached via email at [email protected].

I. When work feels like battle | 2:00pm – 2:15pm

II. Mixed Martial Arts: Specific plan vs. general plan | 2:15pm – 2:30pm

III. Develop a General Strategy | 2:30pm – 2:45pm

IV. The burdens we cannot control | 2:45pm – 2:50pm

V. Take care of yourself | 2:50pm – 3:00pm

1. How do we take care of ourselves?
2. What is in your control?
3. Physical, Mind/Body, Psychological, Social

Break | 3:00pm – 3:10pm

VI. Be Prepared | 3:10pm – 3:20pm

1. How do we prepare?
2. Two common approaches
3. Become a martial arts master
4. All about perception
5. Separating out the components
6. Reinterpret it
7. How does it need to be addressed?

VII. Key factors | 3:20pm – 3:30pm

VIII. Advice for Allies | 3:30pm – 3:40pm