Human nature has a tendency to cloud judgment by introducing cognitive biases and emotion into the decision-making process. Data, on the other hand, is indifferent. It is impartial. It can be comprehensive in scope where lawyers are limited in experience. Data does...
So the ABA Task Force On The Future Of Legal Education released its draft report (PDF) today. They’ve spent the past year or so having meetings and discussing the problems facing the legal profession. Let’s look at their key conclusions: Pricing and...
So over at the private Lawyers sub on reddit, a user asked the question: What are your tips for not thinking about work after hours? Distressingly, the majority of the responses involved: Drinking Reddit Drinking To be fair, some suggested working out as well. For my...
This past week I received an advance review copy of Life After Law: Finding Work You Love With the J.D. You Have, by Liz Brown. Brown is a former litigation partner at a large international law firm. She graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. She...
As I noted a couple of days ago, Forbes recently published a ridiculous listicle of tasks to complete every morning. Do this, do that, run down the checklist. I ridiculed it because (a) it was drop-dead obvious things to do that people should have incorporated into...