Find Your Landing Zone: Thinking of Life Beyond the Bar - 2 CLE / 1 E

Find Your Landing Zone: Thinking of Life Beyond the Bar

2 CLE / 1 E - On Demand Seminar

Find Your Landing Zone is a seminar and a workshop. It is designed to motivate lawyers to prepare for a fulfilling life beyond the practice of law. Rules of Professional Conduct pertinent to well-being and relevant to transitioning to retirement or another career. The program includes exercises, down-to-earth advice and inspiring accounts from others who have set and achieved goals and effected change in their lives. This exceptional combination of tools, advice and stories will provide motivation for attendees to plan their move to a different career, to modify their relationship with their law firm or employer so they can also pursue personal goals or to plan for a fulfilling retirement.

The program is for restless lawyers—generally satisfied with life and career—but concerned that they are being shaped by their surroundings.

Find Your Landing Zone will motivate lawyers to progress from thinking about what’s coming to creating a personal plan to make it happen.

TOPICS:

Introduction & Goals for the Program

• Why I am doing this program

• The ethics of attorney well-being

• Why are you here?

• Workshop approach

• Start with Goals

• Where Are You Going

• Where Have You Been?

• Relationship with your Boss/Partners/Firm

• Fifteen Minutes on Finances

• Creating A Plan & Putting Your Talents to Work

Where are You Going? -See Your Future

• Identifying Goals

• Willingness to change-Personal Life

• Examining Your Professional Life

• Asking for Help

• What is Interfering with your success?

Where Have You Been?

• Professional accomplishments you’re most proud of.

• Personal accomplishments that brought you satisfaction.

• Three skills you brought to the table that contributed to these professional & personal successes.

• When a setback becomes an opportunity

• Look for strengths – don’t ignore weaknesses/challenges

• Drill down on what you are really interested in

Relationship with Your Firm

• Relationship with law firm/practice/company

• Who is managing your career?

• Having confidence that your firm or workplace values your contribution

• Create a unique arrangement

• Ethical considerations of withdrawing from the law firm, closing, or selling a practice

A Few More Words about Finances

• All financial plans are not created equal

• How personal financial mismanagement can lead to professional misconduct

• Do you need to make a change?

• Planning

• Ask yourself -money questions

• How much is enough?

• Examining economic resources to allow for shifting gears, changing jobs or transitioning to another phase of life; to simply retire?

• If you are fortunate to, at some point, have sufficient resources to care for yourself and your loved one, what is the purpose of any money that exceeds what you need?

• Gather the information to answer these questions.

• Beware of thinking you need too much money

• Future Expenses

• Get Professional Advice

Create Your Action Plan

• Identify the objective

• Identify what you will need to do to get there

• Break it down into manageable pieces; create a path to regular accomplishments

• Calendar time each week to either reflect on your goal or to work on it

• Hold yourself accountable

Questions and Wrap-Up

• Never too late to begin

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Faculty:

Kevin P. McGoff, Esq.

Writer, Speaker, formerly of Dentons Bingham Greenebaum LLP, Indianapolis

Writer, Speaker, formerly of Dentons Bingham Greenebaum LLP,  was a member of a law firm management team for over thirty years. Early on, he ran his own practice and managed a firm of ten lawyers with his law partner. Later in his career he was on the management committee and later served as General Counsel to Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP, then a firm of about 170 attorneys. Kevin retired from the practice of law in 2021.

During most of his over forty years of practice Kevin represented lawyers and judges in professional licensure matters, assisted lawyers and law firms on issues pertaining to firm management, law firm dissolution and organization, malpractice, legal ethics, and related litigation.

Upon graduation from law school, he served as a staff attorney for the Indiana Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission. Thereafter he held an associate position in a small law firm for nearly six years before venturing out on his own. In 1992 Kevin and Richard Kiefer formed Kiefer and McGoff, a boutique litigation firm that merged with Bingham McHale in 2005. Prior to taking the role as General Counsel he practiced in the fields of criminal defense and family law.

In 2019, Kevin was recognized by ICLEF with their highest honor as a recipient of the Excellence in Continuing Legal Education Award for his contribution to Continuing Legal Education. He has been recognized in the Best Lawyers in America and is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

A successful lawyer, law firm manager and General Counsel, speaker, enthusiastic cyclist, and author Kevin McGoff crafted a relationship with his law firm that allowed him to focus beyond billable-hour goals. He began to work less and travel more. He cultivated other interests and developed new skills while reducing his in-office presence. He now lives in Indianapolis and the south of France with his wife of 48 years, Patty.

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Find Your Landing Zone: Thinking of Life Beyond the Bar

2 CLE / 1 E - On Demand Seminar

ICLEF • Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum, Indianapolis, IN • Premier Indiana CLE