Are you feeling depressed about the state of the world? Worried about whether you’ll have enough business in your law practice? Starting your day by immediately checking the news or your email may feel productive. [...]
Have you ever considered whether you are spending too much time multitasking? Multitasking can give us the illusion that we’re being productive. After all, we’re checking off several things at once. But in reality, we [...]
It turns out that rumination is actually a useful human behavior. It helps us process events, figure out new ways to approach things, and remember what's important to us. However, it can become a problem [...]
Thinking like a lawyer is good for your clients. They are paying you to be skeptical and not take at face value what opposing counsel or the lawyer on the other side of a deal [...]
In the latest episode of the Counsel to Counsel podcast, I return to a conversation I started with Dr. Inna Khazan, a clinical psychologist on the faculty at Harvard Medical School (31 minutes). I spoke [...]
We are now living through the snow day of all snow days! Even if you or your family’s health has not been affected by the coronavirus (and I hope it hasn’t), surely every other aspect [...]
Law is a stressful business and there are a lot of efforts underway all over the country to help lawyers address the challenges in the profession. In Massachusetts, for example, we have an organization called [...]
