Better Law Practice Through Better People Management
One of the great skills that should be rewarded, particularly in lawyers, is listening well. That means for many lawyers that they have to come up with the “right” solution quickly. But maybe doing that may indicate we actually haven’t listened well.
As one article on listening explains, “Feeling understood is less about answers and…
Learning about our emotions–their names, their attributes, what prompts them, how they physically feel–can be the work of a lifetime. Thankfully, there are a number of guides to help along that path.
The earliest and perhaps the most comprehensive attempt at diagramming emotions is Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions unveiled in 1980. SixSeconds gives a good…
As part of the firm’s effort to attract talent to drive it in a “tech-led, human-powered world,” Ernst & Young has announced that they are paying $100 million in bonuses to reward “human skills, such as leadership, judgment, business acumen, collaboration and an ability to adapt.”
“This significant investment reinforces our commitment to building the workforce…
Years ago there was talk of developing a mouse that would use sensors imbedded in the plastic to monitor our emotional state while we work, which would then make suggestions as to how to improve performance. While the prototype was interesting, it never made it to market.
However, now a plethora of wearables are hitting…
A US teenager, 16-year-old Chase Nasca, spent the last few months of his life consuming TikTok content that promoted or normalized self harm and suicide. Then he committed suicide.
While many of the videos he watched did not violate TikTok’s content rules individually (although nearly 10 percent did), all together they created exactly the kind…
Did you hear the one about the Netflix exec who was fired from his million-dollar job after participating in a trust exercise at a company retreat?
Seems like there should be a joke in there somewhere, but that’s not how he took it. He’s suing Netflix because they used an admission during a trust exercise–that…
Daniel Lukasik, long an advocate for recognizing and addressing depression among lawyers, has written an article in the summer 2026 edition of The New York State Bar Association Journal entitled “Overcoming Loneliness in the Legal Profession.”
In 2023, Dr. Vivek Murthy, then US Surgeon General, declared loneliness a national public health epidemic…
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…
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.
A few questions…