creativity
30 True Confessions of a Happy Lawyer
I, being duly sworn at, solemnly confess the following:
1. That I am happy in my work;
2. That I am not the smartest – I’ve never been first in my class and I’m usually not the smartest person in the room;
3. That I don’t have all the answers – I don’t even know all the questions;
4. That I would rather spend time counseling people than drafting documents;
5. That I suck at spelling and the rules of grammar confuse me;
6. That I do not drive a sporty car – I live in the mountains and drive a bright (when it’s not covered in mud) yellow pick-up truck;
7. That I don’t often wear dressy cloths – my clients would think they were paying me too much if I was in a suit all the time;
8. That I went bankrupt trying to make the hourly billing model work for my entrepreneurial clients;
9. That going through bankruptcy humbled me and taught me some hard lessons–especially that I need to be cash-flow-positive all the time, because credit can be a trap;
Increase Your Creativity Through Rest and Play
Creativity is not just for artists. As a lawyer, creativity can be one of your greatest allies. Too often the lawyers on each side get stuck in a mental rut. They just repeat the same arguments over and over again, getting louder and more insistent each time, without moving the process of resolution forward. Then the light goes on. One of them gets a creative idea that enables him to see the situation and re-present it in a whole new way that opens up the mind of the other like a window. The case gets resolved.
Law in a Song
Stephanie West Allen had a guest blogger this week, a student of Susan Daicoff's who wrote lyrics to help her learn law in a fun way:
http://westallen.typepad.com/idealawg/2009/06/the-law-in-song-how-do-you...
Susan Daicoff added: