Jeena Cho

Jeena Cho is a lawyer, author and mindfulness instructor in San Francisco and a co-author of the best-selling book The Anxious Lawyer, An 8-Week Guide to a Joyful and Satisfying Law Practice ThroughMindfulness and Meditation (ABA). She started her career as an assistant state attorney at the StateAttorney’s Office 13th Judicial Circuit, where she handled domestic violence and misdemeanor cases.During that time, she tried more than 20 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. Ms. Cho teaches mindfulness and meditation to lawyers. She regularly speaks and writes about wellness, self-care and mindfulness, and she works with lawyers and law firms on stress management, work/life balance, career transition, increasing productivity and overall wellness. Ms. Cho started her meditation practice at the Himalayan Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., and has completed several classes in mindfulness and compassion cultivation training at a number of institutions, including Stanford University. In addition, she has attended numerous retreats on mindfulness at organizations such as the SpiritRock, Insight Retreat Center and the San Francisco Zen Center. She has completed the teacher training practicum for Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). Ms. Cho is a regular contributor to theABA Journal and has written for Above the Law, Forbes, Bloomberg, Lawyerist, Ms. JD and Huffington Post. She’s been interviewed on O, Women’s Health, MSNBC and the Wall Street Journal. Ms. Cho isthe author of the LexisNexis guide How to Manage Your Law Office, in which she wrote about starting, growing and managing a solo practice, with topics ranging from marketing to virtual law practice to social media. She received both her B.A. and J.D. from the University of New York at Buffalo.