Ruth Pearce
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Ruth Pearce, JD, PCC, is a keynote speaker and coach for the legal profession.

She helps lawyers, law firms, law students, and legal organizations perform at a high level — without burning out.

The drive that builds a legal career is the same thing that hides its warning signs, which is why high performers are the last to see burnout, ethical risk, or quiet disconnection coming. Ruth names the hidden cost of success and gives legal professionals ways of working they can actually sustain.

A licensed North Carolina attorney and Guardian ad Litem who burned out publicly in 2016 and rebuilt, she speaks from the chair — practical, evidence-informed, and unmistakably human.

Her keynotes span burnout and sustainable performance, the ethics of AI in legal practice, and the human skills — humor, character strengths, self-advocacy — that law school never taught. She is the author of two books (Wiley, 2024; Berrett-Koehler, 2018) and five LinkedIn Learning courses reaching more than 173,000 learners, and was named Excellence Magazine’s Speaker of the Year 2025 for Ethics & Mental Health.
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