Mind Over Law: Mental Performance Training for Law Firms
A customized program that teaches your lawyers the mental skills behind sustained performance, so your firm keeps its productivity, its standards, and its people. Sessions are eligible for CLE credit.
Fifth-generation trial lawyer
30+ years in the courtroom
Taught for the Louisiana State Bar Association and Tulane Law School
Sessions eligible for CLE credit
In September 2026 the American Bar Association and Krill Strategies published findings from about 37,000 actively licensed lawyers.
Nearly half screened positive for high burnout.
More than one in four have considered leaving the profession because of mental health, burnout, or stress.
do not believe their employer is doing enough.
Source: American Bar Association Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs and Krill Strategies, September 2026.
About 19 of them are working at high burnout right now, and about 11 have considered leaving the profession.
The brief takes longer, the detail gets missed, and the conversation with the client is shorter than it should be. Over time some of your best people decide they cannot do this for another twenty years, and they leave with everything you taught them.
Law school trains lawyers to think. It does not train them to manage their attention, settle their nervous system before a hearing, or come back strong after a hard week. Those skills can be taught, and firms that teach them see it in the work.
Lawyers learn to direct their focus and protect their energy across a full week, so demanding work gets their best thinking.
Lawyers learn to regulate under pressure. Judgment stays clear in depositions, negotiations, and client conversations, and fewer mistakes come from exhaustion.
Lawyers who have the tools to sustain this career are more likely to build it with you.
Lawyers learn to recognize the early signs in themselves and act on them long before work suffers.
This is an ongoing program, not a one-time course. Lasting change in your lawyers, your team, and your firm takes about a year to build, and firms can stay in the program for as long as they need it.
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Lexlee meets with your leadership or professional development team to understand your people and what you want to see change.
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We tailor the program to your firm, your practice areas, and your calendar.
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Every participating lawyer receives the core curriculum as self-paced recorded videos, built on awareness, regulation, and intention.
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Lexlee leads live group sessions once a month, or twice a month in the Private Firm Program.
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Each participant receives membership in Empower, with live Empowered Calls and a community of lawyers doing the same work.
Both levels include the online core curriculum, Empower membership, and CLE eligibility.
Best for
Firms that want to start with a group of lawyers
Live group coaching
Once a month, with lawyers from other participating firms
Best for
Firms that want the program built around their own team
Live group coaching
Twice a month, including sessions exclusive to your firm
Program sessions are designed to qualify for CLE hours, including the well-being, mental health, or professionalism credits many states now require. Accreditation is granted state by state, and we will confirm how your lawyers can receive credit in their jurisdictions before the program begins.
Lexlee Overton is a fifth-generation trial lawyer with more than 30 years in the courtroom. She founded Mind Over Law to teach lawyers what she had to learn the hard way: that to be a good lawyer, you must be a healthy lawyer. She draws on neuroscience, mindset training, and mind-body practice, and she facilitates every session herself. Lexlee has taught for the Louisiana State Bar Association, the Baton Rouge Bar Association, the New Orleans Bar Association, and Tulane Law School.
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Firms that want productive lawyers who stay. A managing partner, firm owner, or professional development lead usually brings it in, and the participants are usually associates.
Neither. It is ongoing training with practice between sessions. It is skills training grounded in neuroscience, and it is separate from therapy, EAP services, and leadership coaching.
Those help once someone is struggling. This program trains skills in advance, over time, with practice between sessions.
The program teaches performance skills: attention, regulation under pressure, and range. Athletes and surgeons train the same way.
The teaching sessions are short. The lasting change comes from brief practices your lawyers build into their daily and weekly routines, the way any habit is built. Sessions are also eligible for CLE credit the lawyers need anyway.
We agree on what the firm wants to see change, check in on it during the program, and close with a summary of results. The measures we track are stress and anxiety, performance, and overall productivity.
The core program is online and group-based. Private sessions are added for the firm at the second level.
Only if a team member agrees to share. Otherwise, firm leaders receive anonymous feedback.
The program is ongoing. Real change in your lawyers, your team, and your firm takes about a year to build, so each agreement sets an initial commitment of six to twelve months depending on the firm. After that, your firm can continue for as long as it needs.
Pricing is reviewed on the call, after Lexlee understands your firm and what you want to see change.
Every engagement begins with a call with Lexlee.
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She will ask about your firm and your people.
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You will talk through what you want your team and culture to look like.
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You will leave with a clear picture of how the program would work for you.
With intention, anything is possible.
