Continuing Legal Education

Conscious Counsel™ CLE’s are a new approach to continuing legal education—designed for attorneys and firms who recognize that how lawyers think, regulate stress, and relate to others directly impacts competence, ethics, and performance.

Grounded in neuroscience, the Rules of Professional Conduct, and Appreciative Inquiry, Conscious Counsel CLE’s go beyond information delivery. They are experiential, practice-focused programs that help attorneys strengthen judgment, clarity, communication, and ethical decision-making under real-world pressure.

Rather than treating well-being as separate from professional responsibility, Conscious Counsel integrates self-mastery, relational intelligence, and ethical alignment into CLE’s that attorneys actually find meaningful- and useful.

These programs are led by attorneys, built for attorneys, and designed to support both excellent lawyering and sustainable practice.

A CLE for your law firm or legal team that:

• Explores the neuroscience of self-leadership and its connection to attorneys’ ethical duties under the Rules of Professional Conduct.

• Shows how stress overload reduces executive function—weakening focus, creativity, judgment, and communication.

• Highlights risks of impaired decision-making, client miscommunication, and ethical missteps.

• Teaches science-based practices to regulate stress, clear the mind, and maintain clarity and composure.

• Led by Deena Giordano Ullom, Esq., founder of ThrivePoint & Conscious Counsel™, with 25+ years of legal experience and certified Conscious Facilitator.

• Qualifies for one Professional Conduct credit, supporting attorneys’ competence, diligence, and judgment.

A full-day, in-house CLE retreat designed for law firms that understand the connection between stress, performance, and ethical judgment- and want something more meaningful than a traditional sit-and-get CLE.

Self-Mastery and the Practice of Law explores how chronic stress and cognitive overload impact attorneys’ executive function, decision-making, communication, and compliance with the Rules of Professional Conduct. Grounded in neuroscience, Appreciative Inquiry, and legal ethics, this experiential program helps attorneys restore clarity, strengthen judgment, and practice law more sustainably.

Unlike traditional CLEs, this program is intentionally experiential and restorative. Attorneys don’t just learn about stress and self-regulation—they practice evidence-based tools throughout the day to regulate their nervous systems, reduce reactivity, and improve focus and composure under pressure. Participants gain insight into where they may be out of balance in their lives and leave with a personal, practical plan to support both professional performance and long-term well-being.

The retreat explicitly ties self-regulation and relational skills to attorneys’ ethical obligations, including competence, diligence, communication, independent judgment, and impairment, making it both deeply relevant and immediately applicable.

Led by Deena Giordano Ullom, Esq., founder of ThrivePoint and Conscious Counsel™, a former General Counsel and HR Director with 25+ years of legal experience and a certified Conscious Facilitator.

CLE Credit:
5.0 hours total
• 3.0 General
• 2.0 Professional Conduct