https://www.lawyer-wellness.com/blog daily 0.75 2021-04-19 https://www.lawyer-wellness.com/blog/how-we-create-an-interactive-lawyer-wellness-workshop-using-zoom monthly 0.5 2020-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea8833771a7646200d62ae7/1601992612528-K6395CNLWRTBM4F0UMEP/lawyer+wellness+poll+interactive+program BLOG - Online lawyer wellness CLE program Polls can help make online sessions more interactive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea8833771a7646200d62ae7/1601993649794-OPV8GEW95J0A7GZ1NQ81/concepts+abut+lawyer+wellness BLOG - Online lawyer wellness CLE program Word clouds can help visualize ideas or concepts. We employ them at the end of the workshop. https://www.lawyer-wellness.com/blog/how-mediation-and-wellness-training-are-related monthly 0.5 2025-08-29 https://www.lawyer-wellness.com/blog/additional-incremental-changes-to-improve-the-quality-of-legal-services-and-lawyer-lifestyles monthly 0.5 2020-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea8833771a7646200d62ae7/1599065242803-WZEJIWMO3SS90IUJ5SA5/lawyer+wellness+relationship BLOG - Additional incremental changes to improve the quality of legal services and lawyer lifestyles. https://www.lawyer-wellness.com/blog/three-incremental-changes-to-improve-the-well-being-of-lawyers-and-the-quality-of-their-work-in-your-firm-or-organization monthly 0.5 2020-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea8833771a7646200d62ae7/1598378778717-2RBPZXUU5TGABR1268LH/fight+or+flight+does+not+create+lawyer+well+being BLOG - Three incremental changes to improve the well-being of lawyers and the quality of their work in your firm or organization Fight or flight is an animal instinct that also serves humans well when under attack. However, spending to much time in this state is detrimental to our well being. https://www.lawyer-wellness.com/blog/lawyer-wellness-is-the-new-competitive-advantage-for-lawyers-and-firms monthly 0.5 2025-08-29 https://www.lawyer-wellness.com/blog/welcome-to-our-new-website monthly 0.5 2020-07-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea8833771a7646200d62ae7/1594404717018-V4TAZF2L337O6PHYJX91/lawyer+wellness BLOG - Welcome to our new website! https://www.lawyer-wellness.com/workshops daily 0.75 2020-07-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea8833771a7646200d62ae7/1595329972577-XV6KF051QL37YRQL3NG5/two-women-having-a-meeting-inside-glass-panel-office-1181615.jpg WORKSHOPS - Three hour group facilitation. Our three hour continuing education program on lawyer wellness may be combined for a three hour group facilitation to provide for a full day firm workshop or retreat. Group facilitators and customized workshops for your firm or organization and a lunch speaker. We provide the opportunity for you to engage two lawyer/mediators to work with you to: Create or revise the mission statement or objectives of the firm. Design structural or management changes to increase the productivity and satisfaction of the lawyers and staff members in the organization. Resolve conflicts that have created challenges in the firm or organization. Facilitate any difficult or complicated discussion among your firm or organization that will help every member to THRIVE! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea8833771a7646200d62ae7/1595329760190-JHBKAU1NOBWPHEP6683Y/man-working-on-his-laptop-2912583.jpg WORKSHOPS - One hour workshop or presentation. Our one hour workshop is offered both online Our one hour program is offered exclusively online and provides participants with “food for thought” on how they may improve their firm, their bar association or their individual practice of law by mastering conflict resolution skills. The program is interactive and includes small group discussions. While many of us suffer form webinar and zoom fatigue, our workshops are vibrant and engaging, energizing the participants! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea8833771a7646200d62ae7/1595329712586-HIRTIGWV4H2MCCORAB6T/man-and-woman-shaking-hands-3182767%252B%2525281%252529.jpg WORKSHOPS - Three hour workshop Offered to groups of 10-50 online or in person This highly interactive three-hour workshop examines the changing identity of lawyers in this new settlement-oriented practice. Brenda and Elliot explore lawyers’ training, our clients’ assumptions, our relationships with communities and our goals for ourselves to determine what it means to be a lawyer. We then move to charting a path to escape the professional dissatisfaction with our work that many lawyers describe, building strategies to make practice less confrontational, and more solution-oriented. With you, we develop the “how-tos” of keeping RESOLVING THE CONFLICT at the front of your mind, with cooperative problem-solving techniques. We offer all of our workshops in both an in-person and online format. In both formats, participants can expect to participate in large and small group discussions, break out sessions, paired discussions and informal polls. We strive to find ways to make the session engaging and meaningful for every participant. In short, we work with our participants to help develop a practice style directed toward a healthy, happy and active practice of law, relying on the conflict skills we develop as mediators. Solving people’s problems -- Isn’t this why we went into the practice in the first place? https://www.lawyer-wellness.com/home daily 1.0 2025-08-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea8833771a7646200d62ae7/1595255006207-5O6QAF4TNKH2DA3F8PQD/cdc-20YP7NENJzk-unsplash%252B%2525281%252529.jpg HOME LAWYER WELLNESS BY UPSTREAM CLE LLC - Be Better Explore how lawyers can continue to be energetic, zealous advocates for our clients, without ignoring our own values and ruining our own lives in the process. Be a better human — for yourself and for the ones you love https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea8833771a7646200d62ae7/1595255097448-50WF2JZCO1TF8Q3YO0TA/priscilla-du-preez-AOdELn6senM-unsplash%252B%2525281%252529.jpg HOME LAWYER WELLNESS BY UPSTREAM CLE LLC - Practice Better Discover that lawyers can add skills that are used in mediation with those they have used as adversarial litigators to improve their practice.. Learn how lawyers can work with clients to begin with an approach that resolves the dispute and solves the legal problem, instead of increasing conflict by building the litigation arsenal from the start, wasting time and money. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea8833771a7646200d62ae7/1595255060436-ZN9F774KJNVAIZORHI5Z/andrew-ly-A7eMPZ9WstQ-unsplash.jpg HOME LAWYER WELLNESS BY UPSTREAM CLE LLC - Feel Better No one is too nice to be a lawyer! 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Hicks has practiced law in Charleston, West Virginia for thirty-four years with several of West Virginia’s most distinguished law firms. He now runs a solo mediation and arbitration practice under the name of Hicks Resolutions in Charleston. Elliot has taken over one hundred jury trials to verdict in the state circuit courts and the federal district courts in the areas of products liability, premises liability, corporate and commercial litigation, insurance defense, and medical malpractice defense. He is in demand as a mediator in all parts of West Virginia. Elliot was President of the West Virginia State Bar from 1998 to 1999. He was elected a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and was a member of the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel during his time in adversarial practice. He maintains the highest rating of “AV” ® with Martindale-Hubbell, and he is recognized by inclusion in the publications, Best Lawyers in America®, and Super Lawyers®. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea8833771a7646200d62ae7/1592520634403-9XHPVXX5L23P5JN96584/Brenda+Waugh+portrait.jpg Our Team - Brenda Waugh Brenda Waugh graduated from West Virginia University College of Law in 1987. After working as assistant prosecutor, counsel to Senate Judiciary and in private practice became concerned that clients, even when the won, did not seem happy with outcome. Also noticed that I was often unhappy with the day to day work and many of my colleagues seemed unhappy Brenda returned to graduate school 2007 and studied in field of conflict resolution. She began to research how much our work as lawyers has moved away from having judges make decisions to have settlement, through mediation or negotiation. At the same time, she was introduced to research on how lawyers’ source of unhappiness is sometimes based on the way we work, what we do. believe that there is a way to practice law and be healthy and happy but everyone needs to get on board. We are able to facilitate a meeting and also mediate any internal workplace conflicts. Eh revision goes without saying… Describe your business in one sentence: We provide an interactive programs for lawyers to guide them in how to practice law in a way to increase their satisfaction with their work as well as improve their overall physical, mental and emotional wellbeing by using tools of the mediator to solve problems and resolve conflict. Yes, that is a run on sentence. 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