As a law firm partner, your ability to lead, manage, and sustain a thriving practice has never been more essential—or more challenging. Tactical Strategies to Drive a Sustainable Law Practice is a first-of-its-kind course designed specifically for partners who want to sharpen the leadership and team-building skills that directly impact performance, while also thriving personally and building a practice that can endure the pressures of an evolving legal landscape.
In an environment where strong internal dynamics, external relationships, and personal resilience are necessary for business success—and where AI and automation are shifting what legal work looks like—human-centered leadership has become a critical differentiator. And with the abundance of looming stressors and ongoing uncertainties that threaten to undermine leader well-being and team thriving, this timely course provides a powerful combination of tools and strategies to help partners reduce risk and more effectively drive a sustainable practice for themselves, their teams, and their clients.
By cultivating deeper self-awareness and more effective communication, partners not only will foster stronger internal teams and enhance trust with clients, but they will also develop the tools to improve their own well-being, manage stress more effectively, and sustain the energy required to lead over the long term.
This course brings together two leading authorities and trusted voices at the intersection of mental-health, well-being, and leadership performance in the legal profession, each with their own deep experience and unique perspective that, when combined, will offer a very robust, engaging, and thoughtful educational experience. Patrick and Paula will teach practical skills and helpful tools that participants can implement to excel in their professional roles and help their organizations thrive. In addition, attendees will benefit from being part of a peer cohort that will learn from and help each other succeed.
Patrick and Paula have worked with the overwhelming majority of leading law firms around the globe, as well as numerous boutique firms and corporate legal departments. Those relationships and experiences have revealed the need for this course and guided its careful creation and design, all resulting in an essential educational resource that will provide meaningful benefit to law firm partners and leaders.
Patrick Krill, JD, LL.M., MA, is a lawyer, licensed and board-certified addiction counselor, and researcher who has initiated and helped lead many of the legal profession’s efforts to improve mental health over the last decade. Widely regarded as a leading authority on the mental health and well-being of lawyers, he is the founder of Krill Strategies, a behavioral health consulting firm exclusively for the legal profession. In that role, he serves as a trusted advisor and go-to educator for discerning legal employers, including a majority of AmLaw 100 firms.
Prior to launching Krill Strategies, Patrick was the director of the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation's Legal Professionals Program, a leading clinical treatment program for lawyers, judges and law students struggling with addiction and mental health problems. While leading that program, he counseled many hundreds of legal professionals from around the world while offering distinctive guidance and uniquely qualified insights about achieving and maintaining recovery, health and well-being in the legal profession.
Patrick regularly publishes cutting edge, peer-reviewed research on lawyer mental health, has authored approximately eighty published articles related to addiction and mental health, and is frequently quoted in both print and broadcast media. His insights have been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and countless legal industry trade publications and blogs. Patrick’s highly specialized background and unique breadth of knowledge related to mental health and well-being in the legal profession make him a widely sought-after speaker and trusted resource for solving one of the legal profession's most challenging problems. Patrick’s website is www.prkrill.com, and you can reach him directly at patrick@prkrill.com
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Paula Davis JD, MAPP, is the Founder and CEO of the Stress & Resilience Institute. For 15 years, she has been a trusted advisor to leaders in organizations of all sizes helping them to make work better. Paula is a globally recognized expert on the effects of workplace stress, burnout prevention, workplace well-being at the intersection of leadership & teams, and building resilience for individuals and teams.
Paula left her law practice after seven years and earned a master’s degree in applied positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. As part of her post-graduate training, Paula was selected to be part of the University of Pennsylvania faculty teaching and training resilience skills to soldiers as part of the Army’s Comprehensive Soldier and Family Fitness program. The Penn team trained resilience skills to more than 40,000 soldiers and their family members.
Paula is the author of Beating Burnout at Work: Why Teams Hold the Secret to Well-Being & Resilience, which is about burnout prevention using a teams-based approach. Paula’s second book is Lead Well: 5 Mindsets to Engage, Retain, & Inspire Your Team (February 4, 2025). In it, she shares the mindsets leaders must develop to create thriving team cultures. Both books have been selected as “must reads” by the Next Big Idea Club, which is curated by Adam Grant, Susan Cain, Malcom Gladwell, and Daniel Pink.
Paula has shared her expertise at educational institutions such as Harvard Law School, Stanford University, Wharton School Executive Education, and Princeton. She is a two-time recipient of the distinguished teaching award from the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Her expertise has been featured in and on The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Washington Post and many other media outlets. Paula is also a contributor to Forbes, Fast Company, and Psychology Today.
Paula’s website is stressandresilience.com, and you can reach her directly at paula@stressandresilience.com.
