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idealawg
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Thoughts and resources from a lawyer with high ideaphoria.
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Law school contemplative, mindfulness, and meditation programs
I am going to post here the law school programs about which I learn. Please let me know of programs I have missed. University of Miami School of Law: Program on contemplative practices and an ethics course incorporating mindfulness UC Berkeley's...
Professor makes some suggestions for negotiating
Professor Dan Druckman bases his suggestions on research and case studies. I learned of him and his paper "Intuition or Counter-Intuition?: The Science Behind the Art of Negotiation" in a blog post by Phyllis G. Pollack; in the post she tal...
Webcast tomorrow of filmmaker David Lynch talking about "Exploring the Frontiers of Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain"
The Webcast begins tomorrow, November 14, at 1:50 PM Central. Click for more information. Click to register....
"Mamas Don\'t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be...Lawyers"
Abstract:This essay treats a legal education as an investment, and asks the question of whether, based on known costs and expected benefits, such investment should be undertaken. The inquiry will necessarily differ from one potential law student to a...
Alas, these new med school grads do not know how to take care of patients
Read this quote.“The most common criticism made at present by older practitioners is that young graduates have been taught a great deal about the mechanism of disease, but very little about the practice of medicine – or to put it more bluntly, th...
Why do we help others? Do we need self-awareness to truthfully answer that question?
Those questions are considered in the article "The 'Helper' Syndrome" (Tricycle Magazine). I find that pondering the matters discussed in the article is very important for those of us in helping and service professions. At least, ...
