At 1pm EDT on Friday, July 17, 2026, Muir will make a live presentation on “Emotional Intelligence in Negotiation, Litigation, and Leadership” for MyLawCLE. A related presentation on ethics follows. You can have free access to Muir’s talk by registering on MyLawCLE to create an account and then using the promo code
Annual South Dakota State Bar Association Convention
Ronda Muir gave a presentation entitled Beyond Words: Communication in the 21st Century on Thursday afternoon, June 25th, at the Annual South Dakota State Bar Association convention held in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Kudos to the organizers, fellow presenters and staff who arranged for beautiful weather and made the event so successful.
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Advice From Down Under
Tony Frost, a lawyer, chartered accountant and certified coach, is in addition a lecturer in the Masters program at the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), where he also consults with their Law and Justice Program. He’s developed some tools for lawyers that you might find
The Voice with Artificial Emotional Intelligence
Artificial emotional intelligence is almost here. Chat bots, as we’ve discussed, are displaying empathic skills that are getting their developers into legal hot water for encouraging, empathically, murder and suicide.
Now an AI voice is being introduced that not only speaks conversationally in multiple languages but that also listens carefully to you and mimics
Emotional Intelligence in an AI World
KPMG is implementing a pilot program for a new, human-centric model for workforce training and talent development, heavily focused on augmenting artificial intelligence (AI) with human skills necessary to thrive in the “AI era.” This shift moves away from a primary focus on technical expertise towards “durable human skills”—such as judgment, critical thinking and problem-solving
How Do You Assess Risk?
A scientist and a free solo climber are giving some insights into the mechanism of risk analysis.
The newsletter 1440 recently recounted that “famed rock climber Alex Honnold has added to his list of accomplishments his free soloing—scaling without ropes—Taiwan’s Taipei 101 skyscraper. The feat, livestreamed by Netflix, set the record for the tallest free
Your Chatbot’s Personality
In an interesting aside to the latest posts about murderous chatbots, personality tests have recently revealed that the ‘personality’ of these virtual bots can be reliably tested using human personality tests. And that they have very human personality traits, both good and bad, that can be precisely shaped – raising implications for AI safety and
Introducing the Half Million Dollar Job
OpenAI has decided that the most valuable hire they make in the new year is “Head of Preparedness,” an interesting if oblique title. What king of job would that be?
The job description describes the leader of a team responsible for “tracking and preparing for frontier capabilities that create new risks of severe harm” and
A New Emotion for a New Year
Just as we’re starting a new year with new resolutions, a new emotion has been announced.
First, let’s take a look at the old emotions. In 1980, after years of studying emotions, American psychologist Robert Plutchik proposed his Wheel of Emotions, a graphic depicting 27 emotions. Dr. Plutchik listed eight primary emotions as the
Mediating with Emotional Intelligence in Georgia
The Alternative Dispute Resolution Section of the State Bar of Georgia is holding their International Conflict Resolution Day Program on Thursday, October 16, from 8:30am-1pm Eastern for CLE credit.
Ronda Muir will be presenting thoughts on Mediating with Emotional Intelligence at 10:45. Come join the discussion!
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