Feeling & Relating

In this video, Part 3 of a July, 2008 interview, Professor Tim Floyd talks about representing clients in murder cases and the trauma involved for everyone involved - including the lawyers. He reflects on losing capital defense cases and having clients executed.

When I mentioned the title of this article in an e-mail to another lawyer, she responded, “Hmmm. I missed that one in law school—and unwittingly took the practicum on ‘Just the Facts, Ma’am.”

Well, yes, me too.

It’s one of those stories that can help define a life, although the hero of this one says it was just part of a progression. S. Leonard Scheff had already been “messing around with Buddhism for years” when he handled quite a bit of legal work to help facilitate the Dalai Lama’s visit to Tucson, Arizona, in 1993. So, he figures, he was probably already receptive to the message His Holiness presented. At the same time, though, getting that message to hit home took another, less kindly teacher.

In Part 3 of her July, 2008 interview, Susan Daicoff continues to share her work about lawyer personalities by discussing the Myers Briggs Type Indicator. Specifically she talks about how lawyers tend to be thinkers and how feelers can thrive in the practice of law.