NAPP Webinar: Personal & Professional Well-Being

Description

This webinar is the first in a series on Personal & Professional Wellbeing, brought to you by the NAPP DEI Committee, featuring guest speaker Ed Ergenzinger, JD, PhD (Ergenzinger IP Law).

Topic

The Business Case for Supporting Mental Health and Well-being

Description

Investing in mental health for yourself, employees, colleagues, and contractors isn't just the right thing to do, but it's also good for business. This session will provide a discussion of why studies show that firms get a four- or five-fold return on investment for every dollar spent on employee mental health.

Learning Objective

Attendees will learn about investments and actions to foster mental health and well-being within a legal practice environment.

Benefits of Attending

Attending this webinar will equip you with actionable strategies that deliver tangible improvements to mental health and productivity, while showing how well-being investments create meaningful returns for both individuals and legal practices.

Speaker

Ed Ergenzinger, JD, PhD, is a patent attorney and mental health advocate who lives in Raleigh, NC. He has a solo practice and also serves as senior counsel to boutique firms in Washington D.C. and New York City. Ed is also an adjunct professor at Wake Forest Law where he developed and teaches the upper-level seminar Mental Health and the Legal Profession.

Ed has 25 years of experience in the practice of patent law; first as a patent agent then as a patent attorney. He has worked for various firms ranging from Big Law to small boutiques. Ed also has substantial in-house experience, including as Director of IP & Legal Affairs at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute and as fractional IP counsel to Wyeth (now Pfizer) and Catalent. In addition to Wake Forest Law, he has also served as an adjunct professor at UNC Law and Campbell Law.

His interest in mental health issues stems from his doctoral training in neuroscience and his personal experience living with bipolar I disorder, an anxiety disorder, and complex PTSD. Five years ago, a severe cycle of mania and depression left him unemployed, uninsured, bankrupt, and collecting Social Security Disability. With the help of medicine and therapy he has been able to return to practicing law.

Ed is a blogger for WebMD and Psychology Today and has authored over 125 publications in such venues as The National Law Journal, Stanford Technology Law Review, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, and Business Insider. He is a frequent speaker at programs sponsored by organizations such as K&L Gates, AUTM, High Point Law, Wake Forest Law, Duke Law, and the North Carolina Bar Association (NCBA).

Ed serves on the Leadership Council for NCBA’s IP Section and as a VP on the Board of Directors for NCBA’s BarCARES Initiative, a free short-term crisis intervention program for legal professionals.

Join at Noon ET here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86831190928?pwd=k1EOAiKjNgDyMox4t4sD1iWegIseTg.1