5 Mistakes To Avoid At Client Intake
Just like first dates, the initial client consultation or the first meeting holds a great deal of importance.
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How To Love A Lawyer
Lawyers are deserving of love — just like everyone else.
Embracing Conflict As Lawyers
Imagine if lawyers used conflict as an opportunity to facilitate healing, growth, and mutual understanding for our clients.
What is the Role of Lawyers?
You get to define for yourself how you want to practice and what kind of lawyer you want to be.
Why Every Lawyer Should Be Practicing Mindfulness (Part II)
Let’s face it, lawyering is difficult. We all have days where it feels as though the ground beneath us is about to give and we’re spiraling out of control. When you feel this way, what coping mechanism do you use to feel grounded again? Practicing mindfulness allows us to pause, reflect, and respond from a place of calm rather than reacting.
Why Every Lawyer Should Be Practicing Mindfulness (Part I)
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that practicing mindfulness is good for you. It helps to decrease the impact of stress on your body, allows you to manage anxiety better, and lowers blood pressure and a host of stress-related psychosomatic symptoms. The list of what mindfulness can do seems to be growing daily.
Quitting Someone Else’s Dream
As I tour around the country, traveling to dozens of cities, giving talks, having one-on-one meetings with lawyers, and engaging in honest dialogue about life as a lawyer, one common theme I see is this: too many of us are living a dream that wasn’t meant for us.
How To Know Suicide
A few years ago, I went to an all-day meditation retreat for women at Green Gulch. Most of the day was spent in silence, in meditation, in reflection, practicing mindfulness. When you take away the ability to talk, I find that all of my other senses come alive. I look, I listen, and I feel more attentive.
3 Ways of Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome
The impostor syndrome is a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a "fraud." I find that a lot of lawyers (myself included) struggle with this. No matter [...]
Understanding and Working with Anger and Other Difficult Emotions Through Mindfulness
You can blame or target the person, thing, or event that initially caused the anger but the only thing you can change is your relationship to anger.