So far in this series we’ve explored key benefits for senior lawyers of ‘brain-based’ mindfulness training: mental resilience for managing workplace stress; critical thinking skills; and ‘emotional intelligence’ (EQ) to enhance negotiation and litigation skills.
A recent investigation by the BBC and Premières Lignes has uncovered that one of Britain’s biggest accountancy firms aided the laundering of drug money.
Two in five small business owners (40%) say they are taking legal action against customers not paying them on time and many bosses are foregoing their own salary in order to ensure their employees get paid on time.
Big Four accountancy and auditing firm KPMG recently hired ex-president of the Law Society, Christina Blacklaws, for the role of ‘legal services ambassador’ as it pushes further into the legal sector.
A poll of US and UK lawyers reveals attitudes about the ‘human’ element of the profession. Most respondents saidf their work-life balance was good, posisbly on a par with Harvey Specter, the fictional protagonist and lawyer from USA Network’s popular show Suits.
Lawyers hardly need explaining why these are so vital: legal practice requires highly developed cognitive abilities – for information retention and retrieval, analysis and interpretation, decision making, argumentation, etc. Legal training develops these abilities to a high level.
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