Beyond Smart Lawyering with Emotional Intelligence, Second Edition
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Ronda Muir, founder and principal of Law People Management, LLC, is a leading authority on solutions to people management challenges unique to the legal industry. She draws from years of practicing law in New York and Europe, both as outside counsel and in-house counsel, coupled with advanced study in behavioral science. Ronda has advised corporate law departments and law firms of all sizes across the country on increasing profitability by aligning structure, leadership, compensation, professional development, and culture to enhance client service. She is a frequent speaker, an award-winning author, and publishes LawPeopleBlog.<p><i>“Emotional intelligence is one of the most important, yet overlooked, areas of law practice...Ronda Muir has written what is instantly the standard in the field. It is a gift for lawyers and legal educators alike.”</i></p><p>-Daniel S. Bowling, III, Senior Lecturing Fellow, Duke Law School, Recipient, 2016 Outstanding Professor</p><p><i>“Every managing partner needs to read this book...The good news is that there are things that can be done to improve emotional intelligence.”</i></p><p>-Sir Anthony Salz, former Chair, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer</p><p><i>“A must-read for in-house counsel striving to successfully navigate internal management emotions and external interactions.”</i></p><p>-Steven Overly, senior legal leader over a 30-year career at Lockheed Martin, General Electric, NUI, Cirrus Logic, and other companies</p>
Ronda Muir’s second edition of her user-friendly best-selling Beyond Smart: Lawyering with Emotional Intelligence updates the research that shows how lawyers in all walks of the profession can use the burgeoning science of emotional intelligence (EI) to address the pressing issues individual lawyers and practices are currently being confronted with, including how to:
- Become smarter, better practitioners - as negotiators, civil and criminal litigators, and judges;
- Be personally more productive and profitable;
- Become physically and mentally healthier in an era of high post-Covid stress;
- Be more effective leaders in an increasingly challenging profession;
- Develop practices that can thrive in a competitive and technologically complex marketplace, so as to be able to outperform even the rise of artificial intelligence;
- Build practices that profit from higher emotional intelligence through increased performance, enhanced teamwork, and greater client satisfaction, as well as lower attrition, healthcare, and professional liability costs;
- Address the workplace issues arising from remote work, high-stress and disengagement that are bedeviling legal practices; and
- Take the steps available to individuals, law schools, and workplaces to raise personal and profession-wide emotional intelligence.
For legal professionals wanting to improve their productivity, communication, client service and leadership skills and create a high performance, high functioning and more profitable workplace in the 21st century, there is no better guide than the second edition of Beyond Smart: Lawyering with Emotional Intelligence.