We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 May 2024
The legal profession worldwide is suffering from a failure of individual lawyers to thrive. The lawyer well-being crisis is impairing our performance. We must examine our culture, and we can learn from neuroscience and psychology research to improve this problem. Neuro-intelligence is a critical competency in the legal profession because lawyering is a cognitive profession and leading is a cognitive skill. Neuro-intelligence development is centered on an understanding of neuroplasticity, the brain’s superpower to constantly rewire with every action, experience, and thought; and neurogenesis, our brain’s ability to grow new brain cells. Our brain is shaped by our daily habits, and it is influenced by our efforts, successes, stressors, failures, and traumas. Lawyers must process information quickly and accurately, solve complex problems, and demonstrate resilience. A high-functioning brain is essential. This book translates scientific research into actionable information. It is designed to help law students, lawyers, and leaders of legal organizations understand how to avoid or heal cognitive damage, optimize cognitive performance, and build, maintain, and protect the most valuable tool in their briefcase, the lawyer’s brain.
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.
