TMAE Summit Roundtables‘Cease and De‑Stress: Practical Ways to Lower Legal‑Industry Pressure
Alt Legal Team | April 28, 2025
We’ll be making the most of our time during the lunch hour at the TMAE Summit by hosting small roundtable discussions on a variety of relevant topics. Each roundtable will have a host assigned to lead the discussion with pertinent questions, allowing you to share knowledge and resources and get to know your fellow conference attendees.
Roundtable Description
Stress is a common theme in the legal industry, and it often feels like an unavoidable cost of doing business. Prolonged stress erodes concentration, decision‑making, and long‑term health, so understanding the body’s stress response—and how to tame it—has become as important as mastering docket deadlines. In this interactive roundtable, Rachel Culverwell—a paralegal at Keltie LLP and a qualified nutritional therapist t/a Culverwellbeing—will guide a discussion about the kinds of stress legal professionals face, the physiological changes that occur under pressure, and the practical steps we can take to manage and reduce stress both at work and at home. Participants will:
- Discuss common stressful scenarios and practical ways to handle them
- Explore how stress feels subjectively and what is happening inside the body at those moments
- Identify symptoms and warning signs that signal chronic stress
- Learn how nutrition can support the body during stressful periods and beyond
- Compare lifestyle strategies that help manage and lower stress over the long term
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Roundtable Host
Rachel Culverwell, Paralegal, Keltie LLP
Rachel Culverwell has been working in the UK intellectual property sector for over 20 years in various formalities and paralegal roles. She currently works as a paralegal at Keltie LLP developing system workflows and handling portfolio takeovers, as well as managing deadlines and communications between official bodies and associates. Rachel also works part time as a nutritional therapist t/a Culverwellbeing. Initially this was to help her understand how best to support her own health, however, after experiencing the full benefits that this knowledge has brought to her own life, she’s keen to share her learnings with others working in the corporate sector.