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
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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…
Lawyers in Conflict
Having just finished an interesting assignment helping a firm resolve conflict among its ranks, I am freshly reminded of what it is that puts lawyers into conflict and then keeps them there. So please indulge me in this seat-of-the-pants riff (for the record, none of which, of course, applies to any of my clients).
Lawyers…
Building Your Emotional Vocabulary
One of the ways to improve our emotional intelligence, and therefore improve our decision-making, our productivity. our personal interactions and our well-being, is to expand our vocabulary with respect to emotions.
We experience hundreds of shades of emotion every day. While five to seven emotions are considered basic, combinations of those emotions blend together to…
Moral Disengagement and the Law
Commentators have remarked for years on the decline in ethical standards among lawyers, leading to increasing charges of fraud, theft, breach of fiduciary duties, among other crimes, and also pure incivility.
Even lawyers have long thought that lawyers are behaving inappropriately and should be more closely monitored: in one survey, 62% of the lawyers…
More on Love and the Law
In our 2013 entry “The Law: What’s Love Got To Do With It?“, we noted the movement toward integrative law, which “Pauline Tesler, director of the Integrative Law Institute, believes… is the next ‘huge wave coming to the legal profession.’ As she explains, this type of practice is aimed at ‘out-of-court solutions and…
Leadership: What Really Matters
According to an article in the January 2015 McKinsey and Company Quarterly Newsletter, Decoding leadership: What Really Matters,”[o]ver 90 percent of CEOs are already planning to increase investment in leadership development because they see it as the single most important human-capital issue their organizations face. And they’re right to do so: earlier McKinsey research…
Muir to Speak at ABA Webinar on Emotional Intelligence
On Friday, February 13th, at 1 to 2 ET, Muir and psychologist Rob Durr will be presenting a program on EQ: What it is and Why it Matters in an American Bar Association Career Advice webinar. They will be discussing how high emotional intelligence can transform a good lawyer into a great one. Learn:
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Making Teams Smarter
On January 18th, The New York Times published an article entitled “Why Some Teams are Smarter than Others” that has some lessons for all of us who have the occasion to work in groups. That means, essentially, all of us. These days almost every decision of consequence is made by a group. And what we’ve…
The Intersection of Law and Psychology
On February 21-22 of this year, the Boyd School of Law and Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas held a very interesting conference on Psychology and Lawyering. Attendance and enthusiasm were high and organizers anticipate future conferences well-fueled with the expanding research on these related areas.
Here are…