Better Law Practice Through Better People Management
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.
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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…
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…
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…
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…