Welcome to our new operating platform fit for the next decade. We look forward to your comments. Please let us know if you have any problems with the functions… Continue Reading
This blog has outlived its initial platform! Please bear with us as we migrate to a new one over the next month. Our new look and functions will be worth it. The Team at Law People Blog… Continue Reading
Ronda Muir, Esq., will present a seminar at Yale Law School on March 13, 2013 on "The Unique Psychological World of Lawyers–Strategies for a Successful and Satisfying Career." She will review data from research with respect to personality assessments, positive psychology, conflict management, the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator and emotional intelligence showing the particular characteristics of lawyers that … Continue Reading
From all of us at Law People Management, we wish you, your family, friends and colleagues the blessings of joy and peace during this holiday season and throughout the new year. Let us take in hand the gifts of gratitude, persistence and hope as we work together towards prosperity in 2013! The Law People Management Gang … Continue Reading
LPM’s Muir is honored to be cited twice in the June 2012 newsletter of the National Association of State Judicial Educators (NASJE), entitled "Judicial Balance: Lessons for Life and Law." The newsletter "helps you navigate the sometimes exhilarating and sometimes treacherous waters of being a judge, and makes it easier to find and enhance your fulfillment in serving … Continue Reading
Muir’s entry "What Do Women Want? Challenging the Diversity Myth" was republished in June’s Law Practice Today, the monthly webzine of the ABA Law Practice Management Section. The article will also be used in the workshop at the ABA meeting this July, entitled "LPM Diversity and Inclusion Workshop: The New Look of Law Practice Management."… Continue Reading
Ronda Muir of Law People Management LLC, Randall Kiser of DecisionSet, and Daniel S. Bowling III of Duke Law School will be co-presenting a Center for Competitive Management audio presentation on Wednesday, June 13, 2012 at 2pm EDT entitled "Lawyering with Emotional Intelligence." The presentation will cover the relatively new science of emotional intelligence, its relationship to … Continue Reading
Ronda Muir of Law People Management has concluded a contract with the ABA to write a seminal book on emotional intelligence and lawyering. Before everyone scatters, could you please send your reactions to the juxtapositions of those two topics and any anecdotes that might be informative to info@LawPeopleManagement.com. All responses will be acknowledged and a select few will … Continue Reading
No, Virginia, there is no Santa Claus, but thankfully there is gratitude and hope, which I wish for all my subscribers during this holiday season and throughout the new year! With these twin gifts come prosperity and peace–let us work together to make sure you are beneficiaries in the coming year of both. The Law People Management Gang… Continue Reading
Law People Blog is marking its summer break but will be returning on September 1, 2011. Look for us then!… Continue Reading
Ronda Muir will be on a panel of former General Counsel to discuss “How General Counsel Evaluate and Hire Law Firms” in a webinar to be presented by the Center for Competitive Management (CCM) at 2pm EST on June 16, … Continue Reading
Muir will speak on Law Practice in the 21st Century: What It Means for You at the Women Lawyers Alliance annual meeting in Chicago on Friday, May 20. Muir will review the massive changes that law practice is undergoing globally in this new century and what it means to individual lawyers and their law departments and firms in … Continue Reading
Muir and Norman Clark of Walker Clark will be co-presenting a Center for Competitive Management audio presentation on Thursday, January 27, 2011 at 2pm EST entitled "Partner Compensation–Defining the New Normal." The presentation will cover: Key trends in partner compensation for 2011 Common and uncommon compensation plan options Who should evaluate performance and pay? Ways … Continue Reading
Muir will be the Keynote Speaker at Hofstra Law School’s Boot Camp on Tuesday, January 11, 2011. Her presenation “Emotional Intelligence—Your Secret Weapon for a Successful Law Practice” will cover what the term ”emotional intelligence” means, the history of its discovery and development as a leadership skill, how lawyers score in emotional intelligence, how it … Continue Reading
Our best wishes from LawPeopleBlog to all of our loyal subscribers for a healthy, happy holiday season and a joyous and profitable new year! … Continue Reading
Muir will co-present with Peter Zeughauser an audio conference hosted by Center for Competitive Management (CCM) on Thursday September 30, 2010 from 2:00 pm to 3:15 EST. "Origination Credit and Partner Compensation for the New Legal Landscape" will include discussions of what origination is and how to measure it, what role origination plays in changing compensation systems, the impact of the … Continue Reading
An article based on Muir’s blog entry "What do Women Want? Challenging the Diversity Myth" has been published in the ABA’s April 2010 webzine Law Practice Today. The issue focuses on effective diversity strategies in law practice management. … Continue Reading
From 2:00 pm to 3:15 EST on Thursday April 29, 2010 Muir will lead an audio conference discussion hosted by the Center for Ccompetitive Management (CCM) entitled "Lateral Partner Hires: Selecting and Integrating the Best Fit for the Firm," centering on the issues associated with hiring and integrating lateral partners. A record number of lateral partner … Continue Reading
Muir will be a panelist at the Women Lawyers Alliance’s (WLA) Inaugural Spring 2010 Conference: Rainmaking Equals Influence to be held May 13 and 14, 2010 at the Wyndham Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. The conference is designed to help women achieve their full potential and will focus on equipping them with the skills to help … Continue Reading
From Mitt Regan, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of the Legal Profession at Georgetown University Law Center: "I’m using your piece on ‘What the New Law Firm Looks Like’ for the Law Firms course that I will be teaching at Harvard Law School this spring. It does the best … Continue Reading
My sincere thanks to all of you who subscribe to LawPeopleBlog. I hope you have found useful information here this past year. May we prosper from the challenges that the new year brings and remember to be grateful for those opportunities. Healthy and happy holidays! … Continue Reading
Muir has been selected by Patrick McKenna (co-author of First Among Equals and Herding Cats) as one of a select group of law firm consultants available to advise law firm leaders under McKenna’s ENABLE program–Executive Network of Advisory Boards for Leadership Excellence, which McKenna describes below. "Now, more than ever, being a Firm Chair or … Continue Reading
The IOMA Law Firm Leadership Alert on November 19, 2009 calls Ronda Muir this month’s Thought Leader, saying she "…presents as cogent an expression of what the future of law firms and law practice will look like as we have yet found." Her article is published in the December issue of the IOMA Partner’s Report … Continue Reading
Our host’s email notification server has been down for several days and is only now operational, so you have not received notices of blog entries posted during that time. Rather than flood your inbox with notications, please browse the blog at your leisure to catch up on the latest entries–The Importance of Glue, Throwing out … Continue Reading
