NALP has just published my article entitled, “Why you need a chief mindset officer” in their online NALP Bulletin.
If you are a NALP subscriber, you can access the article on the NALP Bulletin homepage: https://www.nalp.org/bulletinhome#current
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“If you say ‘non-lawyer’ one more time, I’ll have to wash your mouth out with soap . . .”
Really, this is a widespread and embarrassing problem that lawyers can’t seem to overcome. Today I saw a post on LinkedIn … Continue Reading
Interested in improving lawyer well-being? I’ll be interviewed on Clubhouse this Wednesday evening (3/24/2021) at 5:00 pm PDT/8:00 pm EDT by Kevin Kian Hosn, Host of the Employment Law Club. Here’s the official announcement:
Dr. Larry Richard
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I just finished reading an interesting book called Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces That Shape Behavior by Jonah Berger (Simon & Schuster, 2017). Professor Berger is a marketing professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. In this … Continue Reading
Where to Find Good News — and Why You Should Look for It
by Dr. Larry Richard, LawyerBrain LLC — Monday, April 20, 2020
This morning I joined Cecilia B. Loving as a presenter in a webinar that we presented … Continue Reading
Tips for Coping with Coronavirus-Induced Anxiety[1]
by Dr. Larry Richard, LawyerBrain LLC
As I’ve spoken with my clients this week, the most frequent request has been for concrete actions that their lawyers and staff can take to cope with … Continue Reading
Hello to all my readers. I haven’t posted on this blog site for a couple of years because I’ve been so busy with consulting. The CoronaVirus crisis has given me some breathing room. Here’s an article about how you as … Continue Reading
More advice has been written about leadership than just about any other topic in the social sciences. My clients often ask me if I can distill this leadership wisdom into a very short synopsis that’s tailored to lawyers in senior leadership roles. I’ve resisted doing this because there are so many good books on leadership (although very few of them address leadership in law firms). If you want to dig into that literature, start with The Leadership Challenge by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, which in my view is the best and most well written evidence-based summary of the practical principles of how to successfully lead others. For those with less time on their hands, here is my attempt to reduce what we know to a “one-pager”.
This blog post was originally published at the Legal Executive Institute website, a ThomsonReuters site, on December 19, 2016 (http://tinyurl.com/futurelawyer):
We in the legal profession — especially those of us in Big Law — have always been very clear about our criteria for what kind of lawyer we’d like to hire. Indeed, there’s nearly universal agreement that we want someone who’s smart; and then we look for the indicia of a strong analytical ability, a bristling intelligence, a powerful intellect — all demonstrated by top grades, high LSAT scores, membership in a Law Review, Order of the Coif, graduate of a top law school, etc.