Mindful Balance, Empowering Lawyers to Thrive
Jeena is a first-generation lawyer and a Korean-American immigrant. She combines mindfulness, meditation, coaching, and somatic practices to create conditions where lawyers can liberate themselves from perfectionism and overwork and truly belong to themselves authentically. Her work is deeply rooted in social justice and anti-oppression work.
As a mindfulness teacher, author, and expert coach, she guides her clients in navigating the legal profession’s challenges while addressing stress, anxiety, and burnout.
With a compassionate and mindful approach, Jeena fosters resilience, empowers lasting positive change, and champions diversity and inclusion within the legal community and society as a whole.
She is the author of the best-selling book, The Anxious Lawyer, An 8-Week Guide to a Joyful and Satisfying Law Practice Through Mindfulness and Meditation (ABA).
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Jeena Cho
Lawyer, Author, Mindfulness Instructor
Jeena Cho is a lawyer, mindfulness and meditation consultant, and the co-author of the best-selling book, The Anxious Lawyer (ABA). Known throughout the industry for making mindfulness and meditation accessible and approachable to lawyers, she uses her intimate familiarity with the high demands and stress lawyers face day-to-day to create actionable change strategies for individual lawyers and firms alike.
Drawn to Social Justice
As a child immigrant from South Korea, Jeena always felt pulled towards social justice and a deep desire to be of service to her community. She started her career as an Assistant State Attorney at the State Attorney’s Office 13th Judicial Circuit. During that time, she tried over twenty jury trials and hundreds of bench trials. Wanting to make a greater impact, she switched practice areas and started a consumer bankruptcy law practice in San Francisco where she helped people and small businesses find solutions to overwhelming debt problems.
Ambitious and Present
Now, she works with high-performing, ambitious lawyers to perform better, reframe hindering thought patterns, and improve their wellness, self-care, and mindfulness. She also works with both lawyers and law firms on stress management, work-life balance, career transition, DEI issues, increasing productivity, and overall wellness.
Making an Impact
She is a regular contributor to ABA Journal and Above the Law, and has been featured in O, The Oprah Magazine, Women’s Health, MSNBC, Wall Street Journal, and Forbes magazine.
Continual Growth
Jeena started her meditation practice at the Himalayan Institute in Buffalo, NY. She has trained in Mindfulness and Compassion Cultivation Training at a number of institutions, including Stanford University, and has attended numerous mindfulness retreats on mindfulness at organizations including the Spirit Rock, Insight Retreat Center, and the San Francisco Zen Center. She has completed the teacher training practicum for Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). She is a graduate of the Coaching for Life and Work Certificate Program at UC Davis. She has also completed the Foundations in Somatic Abolitionism, 6-month Communal Consultations and a 5-day retreat at Omega Institute through Education for Racial Equity.
Community Support
She also provides support to the law community more broadly through the best-selling The Anxious Lawyer: An 8-Week Guide to a Joyful and Satisfying Law Practice Through Mindfulness and Meditation (ABA), as well as through her regular contributions to the ABA Journal and Above the Law, and her regular interviews on national media. She is also the author of the LexisNexis guide How to Manage Your Law Office, where she wrote about starting, growing, and managing a solo practice, and has co-run a study on mindfulness with findings published in PsyArXiv. She holds a J.D. and B.A. from University at Buffalo.