Dr. Mark Goulston is an eminent psychiatrist who for 35 years dedicated his practice to preventing suicide. In all of those years, he did not lose one patient to the outcome he worked so hard to prevent.
In addition, Mark
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Five Things Lawyers Hate To Hear Clients Say
Five Things Lawyers Hate to Hear Clients Say
By Gerry Riskin
Do some things your clients say leave you speechless? Gerry Riskin has advice on how to respond in a way that helps build stronger lawyer-client relationships.
In situations involving
Leaders: Does Your Empathy Diminish Your Ability to Push?
Almost every leader experiences the same dilemma: are they pushing people too hard to get things done or are they too soft and empathetic such that people don’t perform up to par. This is Joseph Folkman’s Harvard Business Review
How Should Senior In-House Counsel Respond to Uncontrolled Social Media Postings
How Should Senior In-House Counsel Respond to Uncontrolled Social Media Postings:
One of my Edge International colleagues, Jonathan Middleburgh, who is both an organizational psychologist and a barrister, is publishing a newsletter on Substack for general counsel. (You may remember
It’s Time to Learn How to Send an Effective Email
At Peter Diamandis’s website, he doesn’t even mention that he’s a Harvard medical graduate and an MIT physicist… Perhaps these pale in comparison with his other accomplishments you can see here.
Lawyers with whom I work, whether members of
Gerry Riskin guests on Steve Fretzin’s Podcast “BE THAT LAWYER”
Richard Levick’s In House Warrior Podcast with Guest Gerry Riskin
It was such an honour and a pleasure to be a guest on the prestigious podcast of my friend, Richard Levick.
Few people have Richard’s expansive knowledge and experience in the legal profession, and it was a joy to spend
Leadership: Agility in the Face of Fragility
I was delighted to be asked to create an article on leadership for the Law Practice Management Magazine of the American Bar Association.
My hands-on work with law firm clients has been very focused on the pandemic, remote working, and
Your Future Will Be Forever Changed by the Deloitte’s Legal Managed Services (LMS) Group.
Why it matters:
Complacency will hit US law firms hard. That complacency stems from the illusion that American lawyers are protected from the incursion of those who are not licensed to practice in the US.
The Story:
Artificial Lawyer spoke to Emily
The Digital Transformation War You May Not Have Heard About
Why it matters:
The digital transformation war is escalating in many ways:
- The number of credible entities that are combatants
- The talented individuals that the combatants must retain or acquire
The result will be the evolution of smarter