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High standards, high pressure: What the profession demands & what it costs
An honest, practical look at the pressures of legal practice, and how to work sustainably without losing yourself in the profession.
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Online / On-demand
1 CPD hour: professional development and solicitor wellbeing | eLearning
On-Demand Webinar
About this course
Legal practice demands high standards, resilience, commitment and constant performance. But when perfectionism, fear of failure, people-pleasing and professional identity collide with billing targets, long hours, hierarchy and ever-increasing workloads, the personal cost can be significant.
This webinar offers an honest conversation about what the legal profession asks of us, and what we can do about it. Rather than offering another generic wellbeing lecture, Katie da Gama explores the realities of practice, the traits that can both help and hinder us, and the systemic pressures that can contribute to exhaustion, anxiety, cynicism and burnout.
Drawing on practical frameworks, including Steve Peters’ Chimp Model, this presentation encourages you to look beyond the symptoms and consider what could be changed in the way you work, respond and practise law.
Why choose this course
Explore the pressures behind high performance and consider practical ways to work differently, without compromising the standards that matter.
Understand the pressure:
Recognise the personal and systemic pressures that shape modern legal practice.
Challenge the patterns:
Identify perfectionism, fear of failure and people-pleasing patterns that can work against you.
Work differently:
Consider practical questions and approaches that can help you change what is no longer working.
Course syllabus
Key learning points
By completing this webinar, you will:
- Gain a clearer understanding of the pressures and expectations that shape life in legal practice.
- Recognise how traits such as perfectionism, people-pleasing, fear of failure and professional identity can both support and hinder performance.
- Explore the relationship between individual behaviours and the wider systems and cultures in which lawyers work.
- Identify patterns that can contribute to overwork, anxiety, exhaustion, cynicism and burnout.
- Understand the basic principles of Steve Peters’ Chimp Model and how it can help you understand your reactions under pressure.
- Consider practical questions and approaches for challenging “the way it has always been done”.
- Reflect on what you could stop doing, do differently or change in your own approach to work.
- Develop a more sustainable perspective on high standards and what it means to practise law without losing yourself in it.
Meet the speaker – Katie da Gama
Facilitator, Coach & Leadership Development Consultant
I have 20+ years’ experience as a lawyer (in Ireland, the UK and the US) and, most recently, I was the Managing Partner of DAC Beachcroft in Dublin. During my practice, I focused on providing the...
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