Friday, August 12, 2005
Read this post at blogger Bruce McEwen's site, Adam Smith Esq., then demand that your firm provide leadership training.
Where Is Your Firm's Next Generation of Leaders Coming From?
See my own article on women's leadership at:
Women Leaders: build skills and habits for success
Where Is Your Firm's Next Generation of Leaders Coming From?
See my own article on women's leadership at:
Women Leaders: build skills and habits for success
Thursday, August 11, 2005
Law School Changes You -- Make it a change for the better
The Renaissance Lawyer Society, in its monthly CABLE newsletter, reports on a project to address the stressful nature of law school. I am sure that those of you in practice would also benefit from reading this booklet. It is available for downloading so you can read it. Then why not purchase multiple copies to donate to the incoming class of your local law school?
"A booklet to help law students avoid excessive distress or depression: The Hidden Sources of Law School Stress: Avoiding the Mistakes that Create Unhappy and Unprofessional Lawyers. Forty or 50 schools obtained these booklets for their students this past winter, and Larry Krieger has issued a second printing that can be viewed at: http://www.law.fsu.edu/academic_programs/humanizing_lawschool/booklet.php . This edition includes national hotline information for students concerned about distress, alcohol use, or similar problems. The booklet runs from about $1.00 to $1.50, depending on quantity. Please see the link or email Larry Krieger personally (lkrieger@law.fsu.edu ) for further info."
Visit www.renaissancelawyer.com
The Renaissance Lawyer Society, in its monthly CABLE newsletter, reports on a project to address the stressful nature of law school. I am sure that those of you in practice would also benefit from reading this booklet. It is available for downloading so you can read it. Then why not purchase multiple copies to donate to the incoming class of your local law school?
"A booklet to help law students avoid excessive distress or depression: The Hidden Sources of Law School Stress: Avoiding the Mistakes that Create Unhappy and Unprofessional Lawyers. Forty or 50 schools obtained these booklets for their students this past winter, and Larry Krieger has issued a second printing that can be viewed at: http://www.law.fsu.edu/academic_programs/humanizing_lawschool/booklet.php . This edition includes national hotline information for students concerned about distress, alcohol use, or similar problems. The booklet runs from about $1.00 to $1.50, depending on quantity. Please see the link or email Larry Krieger personally (lkrieger@law.fsu.edu ) for further info."
Visit www.renaissancelawyer.com
Monday, August 08, 2005
Interesting thoughts from
NY Times, Critic's Notebook, On 'Six Feet Under,' Grief and Authenticity
By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN
Published: August 8, 2005
"Lionel Trilling's great series of lectures, "Sincerity and Authenticity," published under that title in 1972, comes to mind. Sincerity - what Trilling calls "congruence between avowal and actual feeling"- once seemed like an exalted state of existence that could be achieved only with conscientious attention to the heart. But the ideal of sincerity has long ago been devalued, rendered commercial or quaint...
Authenticity, on the other hand, is regarded as rougher stuff, a man's job. Authenticity is gin to sincerity's chardonnay. (Look for it on "The Sopranos" and "Deadwood.") It suggests, as Trilling puts it, "a more strenuous moral experience" than does sincerity, as well as "a less acceptant and genial view of the social circumstances of life." Authenticity, in other words, is a confrontation not with the self, which its practitioners regard as elusive and false, but with death, horror, being, nothingness..."
Lawyers look for congruence in their lives, which they sometimes refer to as meaning, but it is interesting to contemplate the distinction between sincerity and authenticity. If one seeks to live in sincerity, fellow lawyers will demean the effort with vicious labels, while authenticity is hindered by the circumstances of law practice: how can you relate with authenticity to human circumstances when it is your duty to convert them to legal results...
NY Times, Critic's Notebook, On 'Six Feet Under,' Grief and Authenticity
By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN
Published: August 8, 2005
"Lionel Trilling's great series of lectures, "Sincerity and Authenticity," published under that title in 1972, comes to mind. Sincerity - what Trilling calls "congruence between avowal and actual feeling"- once seemed like an exalted state of existence that could be achieved only with conscientious attention to the heart. But the ideal of sincerity has long ago been devalued, rendered commercial or quaint...
Authenticity, on the other hand, is regarded as rougher stuff, a man's job. Authenticity is gin to sincerity's chardonnay. (Look for it on "The Sopranos" and "Deadwood.") It suggests, as Trilling puts it, "a more strenuous moral experience" than does sincerity, as well as "a less acceptant and genial view of the social circumstances of life." Authenticity, in other words, is a confrontation not with the self, which its practitioners regard as elusive and false, but with death, horror, being, nothingness..."
Lawyers look for congruence in their lives, which they sometimes refer to as meaning, but it is interesting to contemplate the distinction between sincerity and authenticity. If one seeks to live in sincerity, fellow lawyers will demean the effort with vicious labels, while authenticity is hindered by the circumstances of law practice: how can you relate with authenticity to human circumstances when it is your duty to convert them to legal results...
