Tools for Enhancing Legal Competence Through Self Awareness and Self Care

Dr. Kimberly Morton Cuthrell, a practicing immigration attorney and clinical-level therapist, provides the tools every attorney needs to detect and prevent the most prevalent issues impacting attorney competence today by enhancing self-care and self-awareness.

Substance use disorders, mental illness, and mental and physical impairments are the some of the leading roadblocks to attorneys’ ability to perform their legal duties with competence. However, many signs and symptoms of impairment go unnoticed due to lack of self-awareness. Self-care and self-discipline are key to instilling attorneys with the ability to enhance their self-awareness. This program will provide attorneys with the tools necessary to enhance and focus on development of self-care and self-discipline in order to build up self-awareness which is crucial to the detection and prevention of the most common roadblocks to competence. Dr. Cuthrell will bring attention to some behavioral health patterns and trauma exposures that compromise competence and present strategies to improve it.