Webinars
for Legal Professionals
Two hours that change how you work.
Four recorded training sessions for legal professionals, R450 each, and a seasonal fifth for the end of the year. Every one is a full session with Maryke Swarts, recorded live, with the workbook that goes with it. You get access the moment you pay and it never expires. Buy the one that names your problem, or take all four as a set and save R360.
Developed jointly by a behavioural specialist and a legal professional in practice since 1999, and taught by the behavioural specialist who has spent three years working with legal professionals. Nothing in these sessions asks you to work less or care less. They show you what the work does to your mind and give you tools that hold on a Monday.
Seventy hours of work produces the same output as fifty-five. Hours beyond the threshold do not compound expertise.
Sonja Cilliers, PMRI
Goal Setting for Legal Professionals
You can run a complex matter to the day, and your own plans keep slipping to next year. Why goals collapse under a full diary, and a one-page plan that survives it.
High-Performance Productivity for Legal Professionals
Your day is spent reacting: email, calls, the urgent thing. Why an interruption costs far more than the minutes it takes, and how to get real thinking time back.
Burnout Prevention Framework
You are tired in a way a weekend does not fix, and the work is starting to show it. What burnout actually is in the brain, how to tell which stage you are at, and a prevention plan built for a legal workload.
The Leadership Dilemma in Law
You were excellent at the work, so you were put in charge of people, and nobody taught you how. Why strong practitioners struggle as leaders, and the skills that hold a legal team together.
The Complete PMRI Webinar Series
All four sessions and all four workbooks. The four cover one arc: direction, output, endurance and leadership. Buy once and own the set.
Every session is developed jointly by a behavioural specialist and a legal professional in practice since 1999, and delivered by the behavioural specialist, for legal professionals only. The examples are legal examples. The tools are built for the way a legal week actually runs, with court dates, client urgency and interruptions already assumed.
Free sessions with the Law Society of South Africa.
Since 2025 we have run a series of free one-hour sessions with the Law Society of South Africa, for attorneys, candidate attorneys and women in law, on stress, cognitive load, burnout prevention, mindset and leadership. The explanation is the point: once you understand why you are so tired, why you cannot sleep and why the stress does not switch off, you stop thinking you are doing it wrong, and the methods finally make sense. The recorded webinars on this page are the fuller, two-hour versions of that work, with the workbook the free sessions could not include.
Watch the free sessionsFor the last quarter: the end-of-year reset
A seasonal session, sold on its own rather than in the set. It is built for the stretch from October to the holidays, when everyone is tired and the deadlines are not, and it comes with a 96-page recovery workbook, the Holiday Reset Protocol and a plan for January.
End-of-Year Stress and Burnout Reset
It is the last stretch of the year, you are running on fumes, and you already know the holiday will not fix it. Why the nervous system stays switched on, how to reset it deliberately, and the Holiday Reset Protocol so that leave actually restores you. With a 96-page recovery workbook.
What to expect
Each session runs about two hours, recorded live, with the workbook that goes with it. It explains the mechanism first, what the brain is doing under this kind of load and why, and only then the method, so every tool arrives with its reason. You work through the workbook as you watch, and you finish with a written plan you can use the next morning. The legal frame runs through all of it: what this looks like in a practice, a firm, a set of articles.
What Participants Say
Very well presented. Great pace, excellent content with uncluttered slides. Really enjoyed.
This morning was truly insightful. It is shocking how much time I spend on interruptions.
This was incredible. I feel equipped with tools to improve.
Thank you so much for this initiative. Please do not stop.
This was brilliant.
Thank you, insightful session.
Buying for a firm or a team
Set the number of people on the session page and check out once. The first seat is full price and every additional seat is 10% off, on the single sessions, the complete series and the online courses alike. At checkout you list the participants; when payment clears each of them gets their own login, recording and workbook by email, and you get one invoice to the firm, chambers or legal department.
Suited to a small practice, a compliance function, or one team taking a session together.
Suited to a department or practice group taking all four sessions over a term.
Purchase orders, vendor registration and internal billing requirements are accommodated. Access is switched on when payment reflects.
Larger rollouts, or training delivered at your offices: see training for firms and teams or contact us.
Booking for more than one person?
You can buy for a team directly on any session page. If you would rather have a quote first, or need a purchase order raised, send us the session, the number of participants and your billing details.
Individual registrations are completed at checkout on each session page.
Also published in De Rebus
Cognitive Performance in Practice, PMRI’s monthly column in De Rebus, the journal of the South African legal profession. Three recent pieces; the full list is on the Authors and Publications page. For PMRI’s own articles, see the library.
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The divorce file you carry home: emotional regulation for legal professionals in family law
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Holding the room: the difficult client, the high emotion and the practitioner who has to stay steady
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Other people’s worst days: secondary trauma in legal practice
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The letter that made you furious: staying regulated when the other side goes on the attack
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The night before court: what anticipatory anxiety does and how to bring it down
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Why you are short with the people you love after a day of being patient with everyone else
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