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Googling Leads to Overestimation of Our Own Knowledge
December 3, 2015
The internet has changed the way we do many things, from organising a get-together to looking up a recipe. Tasks that little...
December 3, 2015
The internet has changed the way we do many things, from organising a get-together to looking up a recipe. Tasks that little...
Does Your Approach Appeal to the Inner Reptile?
December 3, 2015
If your approach gets the attention and approval of the inner reptile you have a much better chance of guiding the other person to agreeing with you. The inner reptile, Is more concerned with avoiding pain in order to survive than with enjoying pleasure. Discuss the direct benefits of your approach and how the party will avoid or alleviate some kind of pain if he or she adopts it. Responds to emotions. What drives decision making is mostly subconscious. It doesn’t involve the cognitive parts...
December 3, 2015
If your approach gets the attention and approval of the inner reptile you have a much better chance of guiding the other person to agreeing with you. The inner reptile, Is more concerned with avoiding pain in order to survive than with enjoying pleasure. Discuss the direct benefits of your approach and how the party will avoid or alleviate some kind of pain if he or she adopts it. Responds to emotions. What drives decision making is mostly subconscious. It doesn’t involve the cognitive parts...
The ‘Human-Element’ Still Critical to Data Analytics Success
December 3, 2015
New survey underscores the need for continued workforce development alongside the implementation of new analytics tools. As reported by the American Lawyer earlier this month, the advent of automated technologies is deeply impacting the profession of law, and many now believe that legal support functions traditionally overseen by paralegals and junior attorneys could soon be handled by artificial intelligence (AI) platforms. According to the technology survey conducted by Altman Weil, 35 percent...
December 3, 2015
New survey underscores the need for continued workforce development alongside the implementation of new analytics tools. As reported by the American Lawyer earlier this month, the advent of automated technologies is deeply impacting the profession of law, and many now believe that legal support functions traditionally overseen by paralegals and junior attorneys could soon be handled by artificial intelligence (AI) platforms. According to the technology survey conducted by Altman Weil, 35 percent...
Survey: 65 Percent of Texas Managing Partners ‘Somewhat Optimistic’ About 2016
December 2, 2015
Managing partners of Texas firms expect to grapple with challenges in 2016 ranging from uncertain energy prices and how that affects clients' business, to firm issues such as retaining lawyers, hiring laterals, keeping lawyers busy and dealing with downward pressure on billing rates. Despite the challenges, 65 percent of the Texas firm leaders who participated in the 2015 Texas Lawyer Managing Partners Survey said they are "somewhat optimistic" about growth opportunities in the Texas legal market...
December 2, 2015
Managing partners of Texas firms expect to grapple with challenges in 2016 ranging from uncertain energy prices and how that affects clients' business, to firm issues such as retaining lawyers, hiring laterals, keeping lawyers busy and dealing with downward pressure on billing rates. Despite the challenges, 65 percent of the Texas firm leaders who participated in the 2015 Texas Lawyer Managing Partners Survey said they are "somewhat optimistic" about growth opportunities in the Texas legal market...
Taking a Pause Could Help Your Client’s Cause
December 2, 2015
When you’re involved in a negotiation, mediation or litigation if you’re trying to get another person to see things your way what matters is not only what you say but how you say it. A recent study from the University of Michigan looks at how effective speakers were at getting subjects to agree to take a survey. They found that the smoothest, fastest speakers were the least effective. Science Daily reports that the study looked at how speech characteristics impacted decisions to take a telephone...
December 2, 2015
When you’re involved in a negotiation, mediation or litigation if you’re trying to get another person to see things your way what matters is not only what you say but how you say it. A recent study from the University of Michigan looks at how effective speakers were at getting subjects to agree to take a survey. They found that the smoothest, fastest speakers were the least effective. Science Daily reports that the study looked at how speech characteristics impacted decisions to take a telephone...
Empowering People to Choose Wisely by Democratizing Mindfulness and Thinking Tools
December 2, 2015
Making choices (wisely) can be difficult; demand focused, cognitive attention; produce delayed, noisy feedback; require careful and clear thinking; and quite often trigger anxiety, stress, or strong, negative emotions. A large body of empirical, experimental, and field research finds that people often make choices resulting in outcomes that are suboptimal as judged by the very people making those choices. These studies have led to the popularity of the idea of nudging people to achieve better outcomes...
December 2, 2015
Making choices (wisely) can be difficult; demand focused, cognitive attention; produce delayed, noisy feedback; require careful and clear thinking; and quite often trigger anxiety, stress, or strong, negative emotions. A large body of empirical, experimental, and field research finds that people often make choices resulting in outcomes that are suboptimal as judged by the very people making those choices. These studies have led to the popularity of the idea of nudging people to achieve better outcomes...
Self-Doubting Therapist More Effective If Also Self-Compassionate
December 1, 2015
Given a choice, you might think it better to undertake psychotherapy with a confident therapist than a self-doubting one. After all, you want a firm hand to guide you through a storm. But in fact, there's evidence that therapy clients do better when their therapist has professional self-doubts. In a new paper published in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Helene Nissen-Lie and her colleagues tested their idea that therapist self-doubt might not always be helpful, and specifically that the ideal...
December 1, 2015
Given a choice, you might think it better to undertake psychotherapy with a confident therapist than a self-doubting one. After all, you want a firm hand to guide you through a storm. But in fact, there's evidence that therapy clients do better when their therapist has professional self-doubts. In a new paper published in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Helene Nissen-Lie and her colleagues tested their idea that therapist self-doubt might not always be helpful, and specifically that the ideal...
Revised Bankruptcy Forms Go Into Effect December 1
December 1, 2015
U.S. Bankruptcy Court filers and lawyers must use new forms beginning December 1, when the first modernization of bankruptcy forms in two decades takes effect. Among the most significant changes: Individuals and businesses will have different documents for opening cases. At present, individuals use the same filing forms as the largest corporations, and must pore through potentially confusing questions not relevant to their cases. Plain-English instruction books have been written for individual...
December 1, 2015
U.S. Bankruptcy Court filers and lawyers must use new forms beginning December 1, when the first modernization of bankruptcy forms in two decades takes effect. Among the most significant changes: Individuals and businesses will have different documents for opening cases. At present, individuals use the same filing forms as the largest corporations, and must pore through potentially confusing questions not relevant to their cases. Plain-English instruction books have been written for individual...
Justice Scalia’s Hat Trick and the Supreme Court’s Flawed Understanding of Twenty-First Century Arbitration
December 1, 2015
The Supreme Court has decided more than two dozen cases under the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) since 2000 – arising primarily from commercial, consumer, employment, or securities disputes. Those decisions, particularly those interpreting FAA §2, have contributed to the Court’s modern arbitration jurisprudence that creates a strong national policy favoring arbitration, enforces agreements to arbitrate against virtually any defense, pushes many individual claims into arbitration against the will...
December 1, 2015
The Supreme Court has decided more than two dozen cases under the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) since 2000 – arising primarily from commercial, consumer, employment, or securities disputes. Those decisions, particularly those interpreting FAA §2, have contributed to the Court’s modern arbitration jurisprudence that creates a strong national policy favoring arbitration, enforces agreements to arbitrate against virtually any defense, pushes many individual claims into arbitration against the will...
Access to Justice Problem Fueled LexisNexis, Lex Machina Deal
November 30, 2015
On Friday, the company Lemley founded in 2010 — first as an academic project called Intellectual Property Litigation Clearinghouse,...
November 30, 2015
On Friday, the company Lemley founded in 2010 — first as an academic project called Intellectual Property Litigation Clearinghouse,...
