
Letting Go of Anger
Learn to deal with your own anger and that of the people around you.
Having discussed the need to develop emotional resilience, beat long-term stress, stay grounded during difficult cases, and balance professionalism and compassion, we now move on to the next survival skill for lawyers: Managing anger, both yours and that of your clients. Why Is It Important to Have a Handle on Anger? Anger falls in the same category as stress. It is a natural human reaction that, if used in the right way, can protect and help us react to danger. But like stre

Lawyers Need to Look Beyond SEO for True Engagement
I remember the first time I went to SEO school (yes, there is such a thing). At the time, I thought it was so cool, like Sudoku for word nerds. I turned into a keyword king. I was at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law as senior communications writer, writing content for the web. We embarked on an aggressive campaign of search-optimized headlines for all our news content. I geeked out and got to work. But here’s what happened. I ended up writing really b