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Upcoming Course: Mental Health Awareness for Lawyers

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Mental Health Awareness for Lawyers Legal Beagle Online Training would like to introduce you to our upcoming online training course entitled Mental Health Awareness for Lawyers. This course is designed to bring more awareness around mental health in the legal profession. Depression and Anxiety are huge problems in the legal industry, and at Legal Beagle, we seek to bring awareness to the problem and try to be part of the solution. This course will help you understand the following: What is mental health? Why do mental health matter in the Legal profession? What poor mental health looks like? Understanding what triggers poor mental health. How to enhance your wellbeing despite the stress around you? How to support others suffering from poor mental health? We will look at some legal statistics regarding mental health in lawyers’ day to day work. We’ll be looking at symptoms of mental health issues and also how you can recognize those in others so that you are abl...

Up close with Legal Beagle Expert Speaker: Kathryn Weaver

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Kathryn Weaver heads up Lewis Silkin’s Hong Kong employment practice. Kathryn Weaver, Managing Partner of Lewis Silkin’s Hong Kong office is one of our expert speakers who presents an important topic on our platform: Employment Law Overview. Tell us about yourself:  What is your expertise, and how did you become an expert in the area? I am a dual-qualified (Hong Kong and England & Wales) employment lawyer with over 10 years of specialist experience, and I am also the head of the Hong Kong office for Lewis Silkin. I advise employers and senior executives on all aspects of Hong Kong and England & Wales’s employment law and act for a mixture of listed companies, household-name brands, gig economy clients and start-ups.  Our Hong Kong practice covers employment, immigration, data privacy, and employment tax and share schemes, and is recognized in Chambers, Legal 500 and Who’s Who Legal. I decided to become an employment law specialist during the global financ...