Ten years ago there was talk of the need for an innovative product that could tell people when their stress level became high. One suggestion was for a computer mouse to be equipped to recognize stress and trigger a high-stress
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Innovation in Law
If you looked at the title of this post with some skepticism, that’s understandable. Law is not a profession known for its innovation. Although maybe that’s starting to change. Jordan Furlong points out that the practice in business of
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Law Day 30% Book Discount!
May 1 is Law Day and ABA Publishing is celebrating this special day by offering a promotion of 30% off on all books and e-books today through Monday, May 3, 2021. The discount code for this sale is LAWDAY2021
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How Managers Can Help Healing
There’s no question that stress has taken a tremendous toll on lawyers during the pandemic. In many cases the level of work has ramped up, with lawyers trapped in their homes or some other location, tethered to their colleagues and
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Using Emotional Intelligence to Spot Fake News
As prefaced in our post of March 18, political thought happens primarily in the emotional center of the brain, not in the reasoning center. And consuming news with only one viewpoint tends to hardwire certain emotional connections, making it
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The Scientific Consequences of Partisanship on Your Brain
There has long been evidence that political “thinking” is not rational, that in fact it does not involve the reasoning parts of the brain at all, but instead occurs in the emotion-processing center of the brain. In a study using
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Further Doubt Cast on Implicit Bias Training
Following up on our post of November 18, 2020, from across the pond comes further questioning of the value of implicit bias training. Ministers in the UK government have scrapped the training for civil servants in England and urge that
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Cyber Monday Book Discount
Monday, November 30th is a one-day sale of 40% off and free shipping on all ABA books, ebooks and CLEs using code CYBER2020. Here’s your chance to get Beyond Smart: Lawyering with Emotional Intelligence at a great discount!
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Lawyers Meet the Age of Bullying
Whatever you think of the recent elections, it’s fairly clear that the nation was strongly divided on its preferred Presidential candidate. So it’s not surprising that in closely fought states there are legal challenges to the tally. What is surprising
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Does Implicit Bias Training Work?
Diversity is well-established as a way to improve organizational performance. Most legal organizations say, rightly, that they value diversity and are attempting to improve their numbers, but how to do that often remains an open question. The statistics of gender
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