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FLA Wellness Workshop 2024
October 18, 2024 via Zoom
Cost: $75.00
Brian Cuban, Esquire
Topic: A Lawyer Recovering
Brian Cuban, Esq., is an attorney, author, and steadfast advocate for mental health awareness and recovery. He is the author of the best-selling memoir, The Addicted Lawyer: Tales of The Bar, and Booze, Blow & Redemption. His new novel, The Body Brokers, will take on the fentanyl epidemic and is set for release in December 2024.
He has spoken at law firms, conferences, non-profit events, colleges and universities across the United States and in Canada. He also writes extensively on these subjects. His columns have appeared on CNN.com, Foxnews.com, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, and in online and print newspapers around the world.
Dr. Mary Deitch, Psy.D., Esquire
Topic: Sexual Wellness for Lawyers
Dr. Mary Deitch, licensed as both an attorney and a psychologist in the state of Pennsylvania, is well known for over two decades’ experience working with individuals exhibiting problematic sexual behaviors. Dr. Deitch is widely sought out for her expertise in addressing sexual conditions affecting attorneys and physicians, and the highly nuanced process of assessing sexual behaviors and disorders in these professionals’ populations. Dr. Deitch has treated over a thousand patients and conducted hundreds of assessments for sexual offending, disruptive behavior, boundary violations, and cognitive and personality functioning.
Ricky Polston, Esq., former Chief Justice of the FL Supreme Court
Topic: Florida Supreme Court Jurisdiction
Ricky Polston is a practicing attorney who served as a Florida Supreme Court Justice from 2008-2023, and as Chief Justice from 2012-2014. His experience at the Court includes various civil and criminal cases (including death penalty matters), statutory and constitutional validity issues, attorney admission cases from The Florida Board of Bar Examiners, judicial discipline cases from the Judicial
Qualification Commission, and attorney disciplinary cases from The Florida Bar.
Dustin Cole, Master Practice Advisor
Topic: Defusing the Time Bomb - Reduce "Legal" Stress to Increase Revenues
Dustin Cole is Master Practice Advisor and president of Attorneys Master Class. With more than 30 years of practical, in-the-trenches work with attorneys and firms across the country, he specializes in helping firms increase their efficiency and capacity, become more effective team managers, and create more effective marketing programs. Cole has trained more than 11,000 attorneys in more effective
marketing and operations.
Dustin Cole can be reached at 407-830-9088, or dustin@attorneysmasterclass.com
Jacqueline C. Valdes, Ph.D.
Topic: Unlocking the potential of Cognitive Control: How Neuropsychology can help put Mind over Matter
Dr. “Jackie” Valdes works in private practice and hospital settings neuropsychologically evaluating patients with head trauma, Multiple Sclerosis, dementia, psychiatric disorders, as well as other developmental, substance use, and neurological disorders. After training, Dr. Valdes became the Director of Neuropsychology at Memorial Regional Hospital, and a neuropsychological consultant to various hospitals, the Brain Injury Association of Florida, physicians and attorneys. She has worked with Inter Miami Soccer evaluating players pre-season and following concussions, and with the Cleveland Clinic in evaluating retired NFL players for the effects of concussion, as part of the players’ settlement with the NFL.
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