Skills Beyond the Courtroom:
A Lodestar All of Us™ Informational Lunch & Learn for Legal Professionals

LIVE on June 2: 12:00 pm CT | 10:00am PT

This 1-hour Zoom session is for attorneys, judges, paralegals, legal administrators and other professionals looking to better understand and manage the cumulative impact of secondary trauma on performance and well-being.

Important: This is a LIVE event.

Join us LIVE on June 2, at 12:00 pm Central | 10:00am Pacific
for real-time interaction, Q&A with faculty, and an immediately actionable trauma-responsive skill you can use today.

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The Problem No One Talks About

You went into law to make a difference. At some point, the work started to make you different.

Legal professionals carry some of the highest rates of burnout, substance use, anxiety, and depression of any profession — and the exposure is cumulative. Years spent absorbing clients’ trauma, navigating adversarial systems under relentless scrutiny, managing impossible caseloads, and making high-stakes decisions with incomplete information take a measurable toll on the nervous system.

This is not the stress — you know how to handle pressure. You don’t lack resilience. It’s a predictable, neurophysiological outcome.

And what is predictable is preventable.

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This one-hour session introduces the neuroscience behind what’s actually happening. We’ll discuss why the strategies that once worked have stopped working, why compassion fatigue and exhaustion persist despite time off, and why the impact of chronic traumatic stress exposure shows up not just in how you feel, but in how you think, communicate, and make decisions.

This Lunch & Learn Webinar is for:

Mid- to late-career attorneys and legal professionals navigating high-stakes environments and chronic traumatic stress exposure.

Judges, senior associates, and law firm leaders seeking to better understand and manage the cumulative impact of secondary trauma on performance and well-being.

Legal administrators, and support staff working in high-pressure legal settings who regularly absorb client trauma and adversarial stress.

Anyone who wants to move beyond traditional approaches and gain practical, neuroscience-based tools to protect their cognitive function, decision-making, and professional relationships.

Testimonials & Experiences

“All of Us™ showed me the real difference between ordinary stress and cumulative traumatic exposure. My decision-making and empathy have both improved dramatically.”

— Michael T., Senior Counsel, Public Defender’s Office
“This program addressed the daily toll of client trauma like nothing else has. I feel more present and clear-headed than I have in years.”

— Elena R., Appellate Judge
“All of Us™ finally gave me tools to recognize and respond to nervous system activation in myself and my colleagues. It’s already improving how I show up in high-stakes negotiations.”

— Sarah M., Partner, Litigation Firm
“Traditional wellness never touched the real issue. All of Us™ gave me practical trauma-responsive skills that reduced my reactivity and strengthened my professional relationships.”

— David L., Managing Partner

About All of Us™

All of Us™ is Lodestar’s signature online professional development program — a 12-hour, CME/CE accredited course delivered live, online in six interactive sessions over two weeks.

Backed by exceptional outcomes data from 4,000+ participants across healthcare, law, public health, education, and government, the program delivers neuroscience-grounded skills to disrupt the impact of traumatic stress exposure and restore professional capacity. With a 12:1 participant-to-faculty ratio, this is not a training. It’s transformative.

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Lunch & Learn Outcomes:

Learning Objective 1: Identify the neurophysiological impact of chronic traumatic stress exposure on cognitive function, decision-making, and professional relationships, and distinguish this from general “stress” or “burnout.”
Learning Objective 2: Recognize some presentations of nervous system activation in self and colleagues, including the ways it commonly manifests in legal practice: withdrawal, irritability, hypervigilance, diminished empathy, and impaired judgment.
Learning Objective 3: Distinguish between trauma-informed awareness and trauma-responsive skill — and understand that knowing trauma exists is not the same as knowing what to do about it.
Learning Objective 4: Understand the value of the neuroscience-backed framework underpinning Lodestar’s All of Us™ program and how it differs from traditional wellness, mindfulness, or EAP approaches.

We’ll conclude with a LIVE Q&A with faculty to address your questions.

All of Us™ is developed by Professionals,
for Professionals

Kiana S. Joersz, J.D., SHRM-SCP, TIPC

COO/CFO

Kiana S. Joersz is an Attorney specializing in Employment Law and Administrative Policy and specializes in business development and consulting. During her 20 year career, Kiana has served as a Vice President of Employee Relations at a Fortune 50 investment bank in New York, and as an advisor and manager at a private law firm.

Kemia M. Sarraf, MD, MPH, CCC, TIPC

President & CEO

The arc of Dr. K's 25+ year career includes patient care, medical education, public health programming, nonprofit & leadership development, and executive coaching. Dr. K founded Lodestar in 2016, responding to a growing need for advanced leadership development and subspecialty coaching for professionals who were reporting high levels of severe burnout, vicarious trauma and moral injury.

Luis Rodriguez JD, LLM, TIPC, MS; COL (US Army Retired)

Senior Faculty

Luis is an attorney and former judge with nearly 45 years of leadership experience in the Army, first as a non-commissioned officer and then as a Judge Advocate, culminating as a deputy General Counsel for the Army Secretariat on international, administrative, and labor and employment law.