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Excerpts from:
Law and the Heart &
Legal Professionalism: Fifty Words That Strike the Heart
Law and the Heart
A Practical Guide for Successful Lawyer / Client Decision-Making
From The Introduction
"Once we experience the power of our intuition to transcend the mundane, we can start making legal decisions which are more consistent with who we really are and who we really want to be."
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From Chapter 1: Projection
"So long as we remain unaware of our mind's natural tendency to re-experience only what we have previously experienced, we will continue to encounter our own pre-determined beliefs, instead of the one-of-a-kind individual sitting across from us."
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From Chapter 1: The Hero
"Law schools offer very little, if any, training in understanding how humans relate, how the mind works, how important feelings, intuition and morality are, yet lawyers graduate from law school into a population 'in relationship' and find that most of their legal work is about relationships."
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From Chapter 1: The Victim
"It is actually possible for client-victims to change their pattern of behavior which automatically blames someone 'out there' for their plight. Lawyer-rescuers can also learn to set aside their egos long enough to refuse to participate in a futile rescue attempt and instead to help the client practice self-responsibility and self-empowerment."
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From Chapter 4: Conflict & Anger
"Decisions made in a state of anger or agitation will ultimately be harmful to the decision-makers. Anger is a clumsy and often inappropriate way to bring our underlying feelings to the surface, but, more often than not, it blocks our access to our intuition, causing us to miss any opportunity to reconcile the conflict."
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