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Recap of the COLPM Conference

By Ronda Muir

October 30, 2019

The College of Law Practice Management inducted its new Fellows at its annual conference held last weekend–October 24-25–in Nashville, TN. Ronda Muir, founder of Law Practice Management LLC and author of Beyond Smart: Lawyering with Emotional Intelligence, was one of those honored. The highlight of the conference was hearing from a couple dozen highly expert Fellows, Fellows-to-be and others talk about the state of law practice and their visions for the future. The welcoming…

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Blow-Out Discount on Beyond Smart

By Ronda Muir

September 26, 2019

For a limited time, Beyond Smart: Lawyering with Emotional Intelligence is on sale! From September 23-27, you can order the book online or by calling the ABA service center at 800-285-2221 using the discount code FALL2019. Beyond Smart is the first comprehensive guide to understanding, using and raising emotional intelligence in the unique context of law practice. This user-friendly practical resource is designed for legal professionals who desires to improve their communication, client service and leadership…

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Emotional Intelligence for IBA Litigators

By Ronda Muir

September 19, 2019

Muir’s article “Why Litigators Should Care about Emotional Intelligence” has been published in the IBA’s International Litigation News September 2019 newsletter ushering in the 2019 annual conference in Seoul, South Korea on September 22-27.…

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Important Steps Toward Developing Lawyers’ Emotional Intelligence

By Ronda Muir

September 12, 2019

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There’s a reason that SAP, Google, Aetna and IBM all have Chief Mindfulness Officers–they are explicitly trying to address the emotional fallout among their ranks in tech-revolutionized workplaces. But those working in legal workplaces are also feeling emotional fallout, from technological pressures, isolation and other major stressors, as the Law.com Minds Over Matters project conducted over a full year makes crystal clear. So it is encouraging to see that there are those at the…

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Muir to be Inducted into the College of Law Practice Management

By Ronda Muir

September 10, 2019

We are proud to announce that Ronda Muir has been chosen as a Fellow-Elect of the College of Law Practice Management, with her induction to take place at the College’s 2019 Futures Conference on October 24-25 in Nashville, Tenn. Muir will be serving on a panel discussing “Resilience and the High-Performance Culture.” “The College of Law Practice Management was formed in 1994 to honor and recognize distinguished law practice management professionals, to set standards…

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Will the GRE Save Lawyers from Depression?

By Ronda Muir

July 28, 2019

Starting with the class of 2023, Yale Law School is joining a couple dozen other law schools, including Harvard, Penn, Georgetown and NYU, in offering applicants the opportunity to take the GRE instead of the LSAT as an entrance requirement. The question, logically enough, is whether that change in entrance exam will make any difference in the makeup of the class. Peter Salovey, Yale University’s current President, was the Yale psychology researcher back in the…

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Muir Quoted in IBA Article

By Ronda Muir

June 10, 2019

Muir and Beyond Smart: Lawyering with Emotional Intelligence were both cited in the IBA article entitled “Why Lawyers Need to be Taught more Emotional Intelligence.” Author Polly Botsford reaches out to several authorities on emotional intelligence around the globe and reports that lawyers are becoming more aware of the need for emotional intelligence in the practice of law and also for improving their own.…

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Kirkland & Ellis On Board for Mental Health

By Ronda Muir

June 7, 2019

Only a month after Morgan Lewis announced hiring its “Well-Being Director,” Kirkland & Ellis unveiled a firm-wide Wellbeing Program for its 2,500 attorneys and staff to help address mental health and substance misuse issues that the profession was flagged in the 2016 ABA and Hazelden study as being at high risk for. Among 13,000 licensed lawyers in the study from across the country, 28% suffered from depression, 23% dealt with chronic stress, 21% struggled with alcohol…

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The Skills Crisis in Law

By Ronda Muir

May 31, 2019

Associates no longer get much of the on-the-job-training that firms once provided, usually at the client’s expense, to fill in the gaps between the theory they learned in law school and the realities of practice. And now there are more obvious gaps in the ability of young associates (and much older ones, as well) to competently represent clients in the digital age. While legal providers languish in this area (at the same time they are…

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Botox and Emotional Intelligence

By Ronda Muir

May 9, 2019

You might be wondering what the two have to do with each other–botox and emotional intelligence. The heading could have also linked emotional intelligence with psychotropic drugs and even with the use of social media and other technology. All are candidates for blame in the reduction over the last few decades in our society’s level of emotional intelligence (EI), and particularly of empathy. Why? The rise of social media and other technology as a preferred mode…

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Important Steps Toward Developing Lawyers’ Emotional Intelligence

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Will the GRE Save Lawyers from Depression?

Muir Quoted in IBA Article

Kirkland & Ellis On Board for Mental Health

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