Topics:

• Religious Freedom is Not Free
• Lessons from Babylon
• God’s Priorities for Christian Attorneys
• CLS – Past, Present, Future
• Lawyers and Discipleship
• The Good Samaritan

Topics:

• Understanding God’s Purpose and Calling for Your Life as an Attorney
• Navigating Life as a First-Generation Law Student or Attorney
• When God Calls You to Something New in Your Career
• How to be a Passionate Litigator with Integrity in the Courtroom
• Managing Work Life Balance as a Litigator
• Using your Faith to Manage Stress
• Life as a Black Prosecutor
• Being a Servant Leader in the Workplace
• Working in Government or Public Service as a Christian Attorney
• Using your Tests to Develop Your Testimony
• Overcoming Obstacles as a Law Student and Attorney
• Engaging Attorneys in your Local Chapter
• How to Be an Effective Advocate as a Christian in Law School
• Light in the Midst of Darkness

Topics:

• Building Community in the University Setting
• Public Engagement and Christian Witness
• History of the Church in America
• New Testament Theology
• Religious Accommodation under Title VII

Topics for Students:

• “How to pass a Final Exam and grow closer to God” – A strategy to deal with a student’s fears during exams and actually receive a spiritual blessing
• “So You’re a Christian Who Happens to be a Law Student” – A look at calling and law school for the Christian
• “Peacemaking 101” – An introduction to Christian Conciliation
• “‘Follow Me’” – Jesus’ call to the law student

Topics for Attorneys:

• “Vocational Victory” (Excerpts) – Principles and personal testimony on the integration of faith and practice
• “The Confessions of a Pharisee” – How legal training and practice can be toxic to your spirituality
• “Are you a Healthy Lawyer?” – A diagnostic inventory of your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health
• “Serpents, Doves and Lawyers” – What to do with Matthew 10:16?
• “Can I introduce you to Zenas?” Titus 3:13-14

Topics:

• Emotional intelligence for Attorneys (Relational skills that can improve your practice, marriage and parenting; 28 page handout)
• Leading Christians Through Conflict (Introduction to personal peacemaking, conflict coaching, mediation and arbitration; 70 page handout)
• The Remarkable Relational Skills of Lincoln and Reagan (Inspiring examples of relational skills that preserved our country and ended the cold war)
• The Best Negotiators in the Bible (What attorneys can learn from a woman who out-negotiated 400 armed me, a slave who altered deadly policies in the most oppressive kingdom of his day, and the Son who saved the world)
• The Three P’s of Satisfaction (Three keys to effective mediation, whether in a lawsuit, with a church committee or a teenager who is pushing the limits)
• A Lost Baby, $200M Lawsuit and an Astonishing Reconciliation (How biblical peacemaking settled the largest lawsuit ever submitted to Peacemaker Ministries)
• Reconciled by a Baby Moose (How God used a Christian conciliator, a passage in the bible and a baby moose to settle a lawsuit and reconcile two embittered friends)
• Asking Parents to Give Up Their Keys (If you can persuade an elderly parent to willingly give up driving, you can negotiate anything!)
• A Better Way to Handle Abuse (Child sexual abuse in a church is the “nightmare case” of every Christian conciliator, but handled correctly, these situations can end in peace, healing and praise to God)
• If Your Enemy Needs Electricity (How God brought an attorney to the end of his wits and then used an electrical blackout and an aquarium to settle a property dispute)

When physical meetings are allowed again, some of these topics can be combined into a 3 hour CLE presentation.