What Matters Most: Crafting A Well Lived Life

What Matters Most: Crafting A Well Lived Life

Activity #19-12

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

presented by

The South Carolina Bar Continuing Legal Education Division



SC Supreme Court Commission on CLE Course No. 190835

What Matters Most: Crafting A Well Lived Life

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

This program qualifies for 3.5 MCLE Credit Hours, including up to 3.5 LEPR Credit Hours and 3.5 SA/MH Credit Hours

SC Supreme Commission on CLE Course #:190835

8:30 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:55 a.m.

Welcome and Opening Remarks Mike Ethridge Ethridge Law Group, LLC Charleston

9:00 a.m.

Living an Epic Life The Honorable Kaye G. Hearn South Carolina Supreme Court Conway

9:20 a.m.

Harnessing Your Inner Critic Jeena Cho The Anxious Lawyer San Francisco, CA

10:30 a.m. Break

10:45 a.m.

The Attorney's Guide to Lifestyle Design Jack Pringle Adams and Reese, LLP Columbia

11:30 a.m.

More Heart Than Scars Zack Paban Black Mountain Academy Asheville, NC

12:15 p.m. Panel Discussion and Closing Considerations

12:45 p.m. Adjourn

What Matters Most: Crafting A Well Lived Life

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

(by order of presentation)

Mike Ethridge

Ethridge Law Group, LLC Charleston, SC

(course planner)

Mike is the founding chair of the South Carolina Bar's Attorney Wellness Committee and is a frequent speaker at bar events and attorney gatherings across the country. Mike was a recipient of the 2015 Leadership in Law Award by South Carolina Lawyers Weekly, the South Carolina Bar's 2016 Outstanding Achievement Award, and the 2016 American Bar Association's Smythe Gambrell Professionalism Award (received on behalf of the South Carolina Wellness Committee). Mike also serves as an advisory board member for the ABA's Commission on Lawyers Assistance Programs and is currently a member of the Commission for South Carolina's Lawyers Helping Lawyers. In 2018 Mike was given special recognition by the South Carolina Supreme Court for his work in the area of attorney well-being. Mike hosts periodic CLE attorney wellness luncheons for lawyers and judges in Charleston, South Carolina, and he is the host of the attorney wellness blog, Lawyers In Search of Soul ().

Mike is the founding partner of the Ethridge Law Group and still maintains a full-time litigation practice. Over a career that spans almost three decades, Mike has handled disputes for a diverse range of clients--from Fortune 500 corporations and large insurance companies to local construction contractors, design professionals and small businesses. Mike's trial practice includes the representation of clients in commercial litigation, insurance coverage actions, and civil tort litigation in both State and Federal Courts in Georgia and South Carolina.

Mike holds an AV Preeminent rating by Martindale-Hubbell. Since 2014, he has been named as one of the Best Lawyers in America? for Insurance Law, Litigation and Construction. Mike is a Senior Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America and has served as a faculty member for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. Mike is an active member of both the Defense Research Institute (DRI) and the Claims Litigation Management Alliance (CLM). Mike is a CLM Litigation Management Professional and currently serves on CLM's National Advisory Board for Construction Claims.

Mike is a graduate of the University of Georgia Law School (1988), the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (1985), and Mississippi College (1982).

The Honorable Kaye G. Hearn

South Carolina Supreme Court Conway

Kaye Hearn, a Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court, received her B.A., cum laude, from Bethany College in 1972 and her J.D., cum laude, from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1977. She received an L.L.M. from the University of Virginia's Graduate Program for Judges in May 1998. She has also received three honorary degrees and numerous awards.

Justice Hearn practiced law with the firm of Stevens, Stevens, Thomas, Hearn & Hearn in Loris and Myrtle Beach prior to being elected a Family Court Judge in 1986. In 1995, she was elected to the South Carolina Court of Appeals, serving as its Chief Judge for ten years. Justice Hearn was elected to the South Carolina Supreme Court in May of 2009, becoming only the second woman member in the court's history.

Justice Hearn is married to Conway attorney and former member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, George Hearn, and they have one daughter, Kathleen, who is also an attorney. Justice Hearn enjoys cycling, cooking, and singing in her church choir.

Jeena Cho

The Anxious Lawyer San Francisco, CA

Jeena Cho is a partner at JC Law Group PC, a bankruptcy law firm in San Francisco, CA. She practices with her husband, Jeff Curl, working with individuals and small businesses to find the best solutions for their financial troubles. In addition to her law practice, she teaches mindfulness and meditation to lawyers. She regularly speaks and writes about wellness, self-care, and mindfulness. She also works with lawyers and law firms on stress management, work-life balance, career transition, increasing productivity and overall wellness. Jeena started her meditation practice at the Himalayan Institute in Buffalo, NY. She has completed several classes in Mindfulness and Compassion Cultivation Training at a number of institutions including Stanford University and has attended numerous retreats on mindfulness at organizations including the Spirit Rock, Insight Retreat Center and the San Francisco Zen Center. She has completed the teacher training practicum for Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR).

Jeena has spoken and offered training at Seyfarth Shaw, LLP, Sheppard Mullin, MoFo, ABA, SCBA, NACBA, AABA, SMCBA, CCCBA, Golden Gate University, School of Law, NAPO and BALRA (and many other acronyms).

Jeena is the co-author of The Anxious Lawyer (ABA). She is a regular contributor at Above the Law. She has also written for Forbes, Bloomberg, Lawyerist, Ms. JD, and Huffington Post. She's been interviewed on MSNBC and Wall Street Journal. Jeena is the author of the LexisNexis guide How to Manage Your Law Office where she wrote about starting, growing and managing a solo practice including topics ranging from marketing to virtual law practice to social media. She holds a J.D. and B.A. from University at Buffalo.

Jack Pringle

Adams and Reese, LLP Columbia, SC

Jack Pringle is a partner with Adams and Reese in Columbia, South Carolina, and focuses his practice on privacy, information security, and information governance; administrative and regulatory law; public utilities; land use litigation; and class action litigation.

Jack helps businesses protect, manage, and communicate information lawfully and effectively, and has received the Information Privacy Professional (CIPP-US) designation from the International Association of Privacy Professionals ("IAPP").

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Zach Paban

Black Mountain Academy Asheville, NC

Zack Paban is a resident life skills coach at Black Mountain Academy, a therapeutic boarding school for high school boys on the autism spectrum. He is also the founder of the non-profit, More Heart Than Scars, through which he assists adaptive athletes in competing in Spartan Races and other endurance events. He is former Ted Talk presenter and a frequent speaker on overcoming limitations and realizing one's full potential.

What Matters Most: Crafting A Well Lived Life

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Living an Epic Life

The Honorable Kaye G. Hearn

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What Matters Most: Crafting A Well Lived Life

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Harnessing Your Inner Critic

Jeena Cho

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