Jill Kalliomaa

Senior Legal Counsel at GNF in La Jolla, CA

Jill Kalliomaa is senior legal counsel for GNF in La Jolla, CA, a drug discovery research institute for Novartis Pharmaceuticals, one of the world’s largest healthcare companies. Kalliomaa’s practice has included contracts, compliance, and intellectual property, and she has broad experience in creating solutions and relationships for innovative industries including biotech and telecommunications. Kalliomaa has been serving on the ACC Southern California Chapter Board since 2016 and is a co-creator and co-chair of the chapter’s newly formed attorney well-being committee.

My Articles

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Skills and Professional Development

Pandemic Well-being: It’s OK to Ask for Help

In this series, the authors focus on and analyze wellness topics to see how we can use them to support our well-being as the COVID-19 pandemic persists.

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Say Yes to Well-being: How Daily Incremental Changes Can Transform our Lives

And although our busy lives may often get in the way, the basic truth is that to be a good lawyer, you must be a healthy lawyer. There is simply no way around this. There may be temporary fixes to your stress, but the only way to have a healthy long-lasting career is to be making healthy choices every day.

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Pandemic Well-being: Setting Boundaries by Putting on Your (Oxygen) Mask First

How do we ring in the New Year? Is that even a priority? Let’s ponder that and other potential priority and boundary issues to combat increased anxiety, and in some instances, panic.

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Pandemic Well-being: Fostering Meaningful Connections from Afar

As we enter month seven of the pandemic (with the risk of a looming “second wave” this season), our ability to connect with people is still hampered by social distancing restrictions and fear of catching the virus. We must analyze how to find a remedy to improve our situation while staying safe.

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Pandemic: Well-being: Finding Time to Be Quiet

As this stress builds, and we do not see a clear end to the pandemic, we may be tempted to turn to unhealthy coping mechanisms. All this activity increases our mental fatigue and does not allow us to find the quiet we need to recuperate, rejuvenate, and see the beauty and joy in our lives.

Top of the World Hike in Aliso Viejo and Laguna Beach, California, sponsored by the ACC Southern California Well-being Committee and one of its chapter sponsors, Shook Hardy Bacon.

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Mindful Inspiration: How to Start a Well-being Movement for Your ACC Chapter

In early 2019, two attorneys in the ACC Southern California Chapter, Jill Kalliomaa and Jeff Compangano — both passionate about health and wellness — became inspired to create an attorney well-being focus for their chapter. A few months later, their chapter formally launched the Attorney Well-being Committee to help its members find healthy ways to manage the stress inherent in the fast-paced in-house law practice.