In this blog post, Debi Galler explains how the practice of mindfulness can help overcome resistance to change and increase productivity.
In this article, Peter Huang applies the WRAP process to analyze how lawyers can improve their ethical and professional decision-making. The acronym WRAP is an mnemonic for these decision-making heuristics: (1) Widen your options; (2) Reality-test your assumptions; (3) Attain distance before deciding; and (4) Prepare to be wrong. The WRAP process mitigates these cognitive biases: (1) narrow framing of a decision problem; (2) confirmation bias of seeking only supportive information; (3) temptation of short-term emotions; and (4) overconfidence in predicting the future. This article was first published in the Journal of Law, Business & Ethics by the Pacific Southwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business.
In this article, author Katerina Lewinbuk discusses the benefits of incorporating mindfulness meditation in to one's life. Lewinbuk notes the increasing rate of law students who turn to drugs and/or alcohol due to mental health issues can affect take away from the law profession's mission and a future lawyer's personal satisfaction. Lewinbuk suggests that incorporating mindfulness meditation can alleviate these issues. (Reprinted with permission of the Texas Bar Journal).