Blog Glob: Monday morning shorts

Excerpt from What's It Really Like to Take the Plunge Into Entrepreneurship? (Self Made Chick):

Hang In There: If you’ve worked for someone else your whole adult life, your mind must go through the process of ‘unlearning’ everything you’ve been taught about making money. It will take time, but the world on the other side is incredible and something not to be missed.

Excerpt from Ripples (Medic Interrupted):

Heck, even barbers have externship programs set up so that barber students can practice their profession before going out into the real world.  Not law though.  So long as you score high enough on the bar exam, you're good to go.   So, all you newly admitted attorneys out there, remember- give your clients a little PFA [psychological first aid] once in a while, even if you're not tested on it on the bar exam.

Excerpt from MakingMediationYourDayJob.com (Mediator Tech):

With the release of my mediation marketing book, Making Mediation Your Day Job: How to Market Your ADR Practice Using Mediation Principles You Already Know imminent, I’ve put up a site dedicated just to the book and related resources.
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There’s some material there now and more will be revealed once the book is on store shelves.

Excerpt from Asclepius, JD: What can this god's daughters teach us about conflict? (Brains On Purpose™):

Asclepius, the  Greek god of medicine and healing, had five daughters. For conflict resolution professionals, two of his daughters represent different roles these professionals can play with clients. Daughter Hygieia represented maintenance of good health and the prevention of sickness. Her sister Panacea represented cure from sickness. Hygieia was preventative; Panacea was curative. Both roles have a place in dispute resolution.

Excerpt from Happy Living Tip. Literally. (Healthbolt):

Do you own yourself?
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We all remember Thoreau’s famous (and famously muddled) line: “Most men lead lives of quiet despair and go to their graves with their songs still in them.” And it’s true. Do you own yourself? Or does something, someone, some fear, or some life own you?

Excerpt from Proprieception of thought (Johnnie Moore's Weblog):

In his book, Dialog [Dialogue: The Art Of Thinking Together], William Isaacs tells a strange story. A woman wakes in the night to find herself being strangled by an unseen foe. After struggling in the dark, she manages to flick on a light. To her astonishment, she discovers that she is strangling herself with her other arm.

She is the victim of a rare phenomenon, loss of proprieception. Proprieception is the way we can sense where the various bits of our bodies are without having to look at them. . . .

Whilst we have ready access to physcial proprieception, Isaacs suggests we have largely lost proprieception of our thinking. That is, we don't notice we're doing it or the impact it has. We take relatively small amounts of sensory input, make a big meaning and act on that meaning without much pause.

Excerpt from "ADR blossoms as attractive option to pricey litigation" (Boston Business Journal-subscription required):

[Warren] Fitzgerald said the growth of mediation services has spawned a new specialty of "settlement counsel" within the legal profession. "Sometimes when you're already working on a trial, you don't want to approach your adversary because it's not tactically a good move," he explained. "A settlement attorney can approach the opposing side about negotiation while the litigation counsel continues on the court case."

Yet, if the parties can't put their emotions aside, a mediation is not likely to work. "When parties feel the need to set a precedent, or if there's a great principle at stake, they may have a need for a different kind of outcome through the courts," [Marcus] Cohn said.

Excerpt from Close Your Eyes and I’ll… (Richard G. Petty, MD):

[H]ow well we are able to divert activity from one part of the brain to another as needed. It is that ability to be flexible and to recruit more brain when we need it that lies at the heart of the neurocognitive revolution that is changing the way that we think about the brain and mind.

Excerpt from "Law firms try to contain salaries, costs as fee anger grows" (Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal-subscription required):

Law firms like Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP said it is making internal changes to help lower costs. The San Francisco firm has hired paralegals and some attorneys in Wheeling, W.Va., to handle document review. They help on litigation cases and other issues where massive amounts of paperwork need to be searched for important data. The rates for paralegals and lawyers in that area is lower than in other areas of the country where Orrick has offices, helping to lower costs to clients, said spokesman David Schaefer.

Heller Ehrman LLP said it has begun studying ways to provide more services for a fixed fee, which guards against unwanted surprises when bills arrive for litigation or other complex cases. Some big companies have held law firms to fixed-fee agreements for awhile now. Cisco Systems Inc., for instance, has flat-fee deals with Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP to handle commercial litigation. Cisco also struck a flat-fee deal with Fenwick & West LLP for advice on mergers and acquisitions.

Excerpt from CareerContentment.com:

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Excerpt from After reading ‘Proust Was a Neuroscientist’ (my mind on books):

. . .“If the art feels difficult, it is only because our neurons are stretching to understand it. The pain flows from the growth… If not for the difficulty of the avant-garde, we would worship nothing but that which we already know.”

Excerpt from "Lawyers not exempt from a few superstitious rituals" (Business First of Buffalo-subscription required):

[Jim] Burgio wears a blue tie with a small red spot, as if to symbolize his "bleeding heart," as well as boxers with Labrador retrievers on them, for both his opening and closing remarks. The boxers are reminiscent of his now deceased dog Triscuit who shared Burgio's bed.

"She would be a little fidgety, she could sense (when I was on trial)," he said. "She would give me a little more room (on the bed) on those days."

Burgio also wears a stainless steel watch during the entire trial -- all the time.

"I noticed that I always wore it for the entire trial, so I never take it off, even in the shower," he said.

The timepiece also comes in handy when he wakes up in the middle of the night thinking about the case.

Comments

[Sara]

Thanks for the link! :)