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LexisNexis hosts 2022 personal skills webinars

11 March 2022
Categories: Legal News , Profession
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Legal professionals are invited to view LexisNexis’ webinar, ‘Resilience for lawyers in post-Covid times (2022)’, one of many webinars in the LexisNexis Personal Skills programme for this year

In the session, therapist and lawyer Annmarie Carvalho, of The Carvalho Consultancy, and solicitor and psychology researcher Lucinda Soon, of Birkbeck, University of London, explore how lawyers can develop resilience and tackle unhelpful thinking styles. See here.

The 2022 programme features a further nine webinars, from ‘Women in law—how to own the room’ to ‘Effective succession planning’, ‘Modern leadership’, ‘Boosting productivity’ and ‘Building better habits’.

For a full list, see here.

NLJ readers can enjoy a 20% discount on all LexisNexis webinars, covering 18 key practice areas, Brexit, learning and development, hot topics, personal skills and more. Each webinar is available to view for 24 months after the initial broadcast. To collect the offer, reference the code NLJ20 when purchasing.

Contact the webinars team at webinars@lexisnexis.co.uk or 0330 161 2401.

For more information watch our short video here

 

 

 

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