Attorneys Arthur Grisham, David Noblit of Leitner Williams Dooley & Napolitan, and James Vick of the board of professional responsibility on Tuesday, December 3, at Springhill Suites Marriott will present a seminar titled “Quality of Life: Taking the Stress out of Success.” Breakfast and registration will take place from 7:45 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. in the River Room; the seminar will begin at 8:15 a.m. and conclude at 11:30 a.m. Attendees will earn three hours of dual CLE Credit approved for Tennessee. The cost is $75 for members of the Chattanooga Bar Association, $125 for non-members, and $25.00 for legal support staff.
James Vick will discuss various aspects of ethical behavior and ways to avoid complaints being made to the Board of Professional Responsibility.
David Noblit will focus on understanding how people act when confronted with stressful situations like mediation and other experiences in unfamiliar settings. Overcoming the stress as a professional mediator or attorney by recognizing an individual’s thought processes with the aid of an understanding of neutral-linguistic programming will be described and related to characteristics of participants in the legal setting. He will also consider the manner in which the brain function of high conflict personalities manifest itself in the mediation setting, with explanation of techniques for avoiding failed efforts in conflict resolution with such individuals.
Art Grisham will discuss addictions, dysfunction aids, co-dependency, and lawyer life inventory, as well as anger and how to control it. You will learn how to create a plan of action that will enable you to make effective changes that will create a life that combines the essential life elements of joy, meaning, health and healthy relationships.
Grisham was educated in the public schools of East Tennessee and received both his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Tennessee. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Tennessee Bar Association, and the Chattanooga Bar Association, where he served on the Board of Governors from 1978 to 1980 and as president in 1981.
Noblit has spent his entire professional career with Leitner Williams beginning in 1979. He has concentrated his practice in assisting clients who are forced into litigation to resolve a wide spectrum of legal disputes. Clients have included many of the nations largest corporations. He has served as lead counsel in state and federal Courts in Tennessee and Georgia. His active trial practice caused him to embrace the alternative dispute resolution process early in the development of mediation as a more practical way of resolving disputes. After adding a mediation practice to his areas of concentration he became listed by the Supreme Court of Tennessee as a Rule 31 Mediator in 2000.
Vick is the deputy Chief Disciplinary Counsel – Investigations for the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility. He graduated from Austin Peay State University in 1972 with a Bachelor of Arts and from the University of Louisville Law School in 1979. He was Assistant Commonwealth Attorney in Louisville, Ky., from 1980 to 1983 and practiced at the Nashville law firm Maddin, Miller & McCune from 1983 to 1996. Vick has been with the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility since 1996.
There are five ways to register: call the CBA at 756-322; fax the CBA at 265-660; email CBA Executive Director Lynda Hood at Lhood@chattbar.org; visit www.chattbar.org; and snail mail “Chattanooga Bar Association, 801 Broad Street, Suite 420, Chattanooga, TN 37402.”
Source: Chattanooga Bar Association