Beyond Smart: Lawyering with Emotional Intelligence

(Paperback)

Available Formats

Publishing Details

Classifications

Physical Properties

Description

"Emotional intelligence" (EI) is the ability to recognize, understand, and regulate our own and others' emotions. Industries worldwide have incorporated EI into their education, hiring, training, and management programs to maximize performance.

Beyond Smart is the first comprehensive guide to understanding and raising emotional intelligence in the unique context of law practice. It explains the origins of EI, a lawyer's historic role in developing the concept, how lawyers compare in EI to other professionals and how to determine your level of EI. The guide also outlines how:

• Emotionally intelligent lawyers are smarter, better practitioners - as negotiators, litigators and judges, make more money, and are physically and mentally healthier;
• Emotionally intelligent law departments and law firms profit from more effective leadership, greater performance, enhanced teamwork, and increased client satisfaction, as well as lower attrition, healthcare and professional liability costs;
• Emotionally intelligent practices can thrive in an increasingly competitive and technologically complex marketplace, even outperforming artificial intelligence; and
• Individuals, workplaces and law schools can take steps to raise emotional intelligence.

"Emotional intelligence is one of the most important, yet overlooked, areas of law practice. It is a gift for lawyers and legal educators alike."
- Daniel S. Bowling, III, Senior Lecturing Fellow, Duke Law School

Author Bio

Ronda Muir, Esq.,Principal and Founder of Law People Management, LLC, is one of the countrys leading authorities on lawyer personalities and solutions to both traditional and emerging people management challenges that are unique to the legal industry. Muir draws from years of practicing law in New York and Europe, both as outside counsel and in-house counsel, coupled with advanced study in behavioral science.Nationally recognized for her identification of emerging industry trends, she is a frequent speaker, an award-winning author and publisheswww.LawPeopleBlog.com, a recognized resource for the legal community. Muirs best-selling bookBeyond Smart: Lawyering with Emotional Intelligence,published by the American Bar Association, is the first comprehensive guide to understanding, using and raising emotional intelligence in the context of the practice of law.