Beyond Smart: Lawyering with Emotional Intelligence has been chosen as one of the ABA’s Top 2017 Legal Titles. For those who haven’t yet gotten this comprehensive guide to understanding and using emotional intelligence in the unique context of practicing law, you can buy it here for yourself and others in paperback or as an
Diversity
BigLaw Firm Welcomes Leadership Women
Congratulations to BigLaw firm Drinker Biddle & Reath for becoming an industry headliner: half of both of its two main leadership bodies are now women. As of Feb. 1, the firm’s managing partners committee of 8 has 4 women and the firm’s executive management team of 4 has 2women.
To give perspective to this development,…
Potential Legal Workplace Liability Expands Further in the #MeToo Age
On Monday, February 5, 2018, Resolution 302 was adopted unanimously by the American Bar Association expanding the ABA’s existing provisions, dating back to 1992, in the case of harassment or retaliation based on gender, gender identity and sexual orientation in legal workplaces and by any one (including third parties) connected with legal work, wherever that…
Beyond Smart: Lawyering with Emotional Intelligence Now Available as an EBook
Beyond Smart: Lawyering with Emotional Intelligence is now available as an eBook and at a significant discount from the paperback price. Take it along on the plane or vacation. For a discount, use Code RMUIR10.
Sneak Peak at Beyond Smart: Lawyering with Emotional Intelligence
YourABA published a Q&A with author Ronda Muir today about her new book, Beyond Smart: Lawyering with Emotional Intelligence. Check it out HERE.
Beyond Smart: Lawyering with Emotional Intelligence
I am pleased to announce that (along with the eclipse) Beyond Smart: Lawyering with Emotional Intelligence is available as of yesterday here on the ABA Shop website. For a discount, use Code RMUIR10 through December 31, 2017.
This is the first comprehensive guide to understanding, using and raising emotional intelligence in the unique context of…
Reducing the Liability Coming to Low EI Law Firms and Law Departments
An amendment to Rule 8.4(g) to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, first circulated in December 2015 and then adopted on August 3, 2016, prohibits lawyers while practicing law from engaging in conduct they “know or reasonably should know” constitutes harassment or discrimination based on “race, sex, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual…
Happiest of Holidays!
From Law People Management to you and yours, we wish you peace, prosperity and good health during the holidays and throughout the New Year.
To that end, we are pleased to announce the publication by the American Bar Association of our book The Emotional Intelligence Edge for 21st Century Lawyers currently scheduled for summer of…
Muir Contributes to Podcast for Millennials on Female Lawyer Exodus
Mamas, Don’t Let Your Daughters Grow Up to be Lawyers: A Preview
In anticipation of a white paper on the persistent question of why there isn’t greater gender diversity in the practice of law, here’s a look at a few of the salient points:
- Women have comprised roughly half of law graduates for a number of decades, and have been consistently over-represented at the top of their
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