Welcome to our new website!
Welcome to our new website and our new blog! Elliot and I are excited to be taking our workshops online and sharing what we learned with a much broader audience. We have both practiced law since the 1980’s and have worked as mediators for well over a decade. During this time, we picked up some new skills and have discovered that when we incorporate some our mediation skills into our law practice, our job satisfaction improved. We also found that clients benefit from having lawyers who have a broader skill base. We have taken our discoveries and incorporated them into a series of workshops to improve lawyer satisfaction and lawyer wellbeing. We have conducted the workshop for a diverse community of lawyer organizations and often adapt it, as necessary for the group. Throughout this website and in our upcoming blog posts, we will share stories of our experiences and strategies to improve our practices and to improve lawyer wellness. Our future posts include topics such as:
Assumptions we make when we prepare for war as litigators versus assumptions that lead to successful resolution at mediation—and what that has to do with lawyer well being.
Formats for new ways to approach our practices that focus on “getting to yes” such as collaborative law.
Combining skills in mediation with litigation skills to both improve the practice and attorney well being.
The importance of improving listening skills for lawyers, both to reach client objectives and to improve relationships at work and at home.
Maintaining or improving a law firm’s profitability while encouraging early resolutions.
We believe that good lawyers can be nice and they can be happy! We look forward to sharing our experiences and discovering even more ways to enjoy our work together.
Brenda