Beyond Smart: Lawyering with Emotional Intelligence, Second Edition

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"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 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
• Individuals, workplaces and law schools can take steps to raise emotional intelligence.

Reviews

Emotional intelligence is one of the most important, yet overlooked, areas of law practice...Ronda Muir has written what is instantly the standard in the field. It is a gift for lawyers and legal educators alike.

-Daniel S. Bowling, III, Senior Lecturing Fellow, Duke Law School, Recipient, 2016 Outstanding Professor

Every managing partner needs to read this book...The good news is that there are things that can be done to improve emotional intelligence.

-Sir Anthony Salz, former Chair, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

A must-read for in-house counsel striving to successfully navigate internal management emotions and external interactions.

-Steven Overly, senior legal leader over a 30-year career at Lockheed Martin, General Electric, NUI, Cirrus Logic, and other companies

Author Bio

Ronda Muir, founder and principal of Law People Management, LLC, is a leading authority on solutions to people management challenges unique to the legal industry. She 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. Ronda has advised corporate law departments and law firms of all sizes across the country on increasing profitability by aligning structure, leadership, compensation, professional development, and culture to enhance client service. She is a frequent speaker, an award-winning author, and publishes LawPeopleBlog.