About our workshop 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 are 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 affected 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.
About our featured presenter...Kevin McGoff 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.
A frequent speaker about legal ethics for over 25 years, Kevin, and Deputy Executive Secretary of the Indiana Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission Chuck Kidd collaborated with the Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum to develop the seminar “Vignettes of Legal Ethics”. This interactive and engaging ethics seminar featured video clips from Hollywood films along with light-hearted scenes produced by ICLEF to illustrate and emphasize ethical dilemmas found in the everyday practice of law. The program instantly resonated to attorney audiences and became one of the most popular and sought-after CLE seminars. Their efforts were seen by an estimated 10,000 Indiana attorneys. Kevin has presented on the topic of legal ethics at programs in other jurisdictions and to international attorney audiences with the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers.
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.
AGENDA9:00 A.M. Introduction and 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
Creating A Plan and Putting Your Talents to Work
9:15 A.M. 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?
9:30 A.M. 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
and 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
9:45 A.M. 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
Ethical considerations of withdrawing from the law firm, closing, or selling
a practice
10:05 A.M. A Few More Words about Finances
All financial plans are not created equal
How personal financial mismanagement can lead to professional misconduct
Ask yourself -money questions
Beware of thinking you need too much money
Get Professional Advice
10:20 A.M. 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
10:50 A.M. Questions and Wrap-Up
Never too late to begin
11:00 A.M. Adjourn
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