Free virtual wellness offered by State Bar May 29

The State Bar of Michigan will present a free virtual wellness event featuring Karissa Wallace on Friday, May 29, at 11:30 a.m. “Stress Less, Live More: Practical Tools for Lawyer Wellbeing” will be offered via Zoom and is free to all SBM members.

By attending the 90-minute event, participants will receive an overview of research on how stress affects legal professionals; discover the impact of stress and why some stress is needed for peak performance; learn science-backed strategies necessary to recover from, and prevent, burnout; and create an action plan to boost your wellbeing in just 30 minutes per day.

Wallace is a wellbeing coach, teacher, speaker, and corporate lawyer, most recently serving as in-house counsel for Detroit Venture Partners. She became a wellbeing coach after experiencing burnout, and uses the latest science, along with her own experience, to highlight the importance of career wellbeing and provide actionable tools for stress management.

The State Bar offers virtual wellness events twice per year to help attorneys maximize their professional competency by improving their overall wellbeing. 

To learn more or register for the May 29 wellness event, visit www.michbar.org/ljap.

‘Nuts & Bolts of an OWI Case’ offered online April 15

The Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan will present the Traffic Safety Training Program webinar “Nuts & Bolts of an OWI Case” on Wednesday, April 15, from 9 a.m. to noon via Zoom.

Officers handling Operating While Intoxicated cases must have a solid foundation of the “nuts and bolts” of these types of investigations.  Having a solid foundation of the basics will allow officers to build on their OWI investigative skills as they advance in their careers.  

This training will cover all the “nuts and bolts” that go into making a solid and complete OWI investigation that will help prosecutors hold impaired driving offenders responsible for their dangerous actions.  

Prosecutors and city attorneys handling OWI cases also need to have a solid understanding of how law enforcement officers investigate these cases so that they can effectively present them in court to a jury and work with officers to provide proper testimony on direct examination, how to admit chemical test results at trial, and how to prepare the officer for cross examination on the witness stand.

The webinar will cover OWI detection phases; how to recognize a drugged driver and the seven drug categories; surviving the courtroom. This webinar is designed for prosecutors, law enforcement, and traffic safety partners.

To register for this free webinar, visit https://michiganprosecutor.org and click on “training.”

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