Book contents
- The Legal Brain
- The Legal Brain
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Impaired Lawyer
- 2 The Spectrum from Languishing to Flourishing
- 3 The Lawyering Culture
- 4 The Lawyer’s Brain
- 5 Memory, Knowledge, and Building Expertise
- 6 Motivation, Reward, and Developing Habits
- 7 The Impact of Stress
- 8 The Influence of Self-Medication
- 9 The Importance of Fuel
- 10 Optimizing Brain Health
- 11 Enhancing Mental Strength
- 12 Developing an Action Plan for the Neuro-intelligent Lawyer
- 13 The Neuro-intelligent Legal Organization
- Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Index
13 - The Neuro-intelligent Legal Organization
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 May 2024
- The Legal Brain
- The Legal Brain
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Impaired Lawyer
- 2 The Spectrum from Languishing to Flourishing
- 3 The Lawyering Culture
- 4 The Lawyer’s Brain
- 5 Memory, Knowledge, and Building Expertise
- 6 Motivation, Reward, and Developing Habits
- 7 The Impact of Stress
- 8 The Influence of Self-Medication
- 9 The Importance of Fuel
- 10 Optimizing Brain Health
- 11 Enhancing Mental Strength
- 12 Developing an Action Plan for the Neuro-intelligent Lawyer
- 13 The Neuro-intelligent Legal Organization
- Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Lawyer leaders can transform cultures that feature chronic stress, overwork, and lawyer impairment into neuro-intelligent cultures that make cognitive well-being a priority, reaping benefit at both the individual and institutional levels. Neuro-intelligent cultures promote brain health and mental strength, and they develop environments rich with cognitive power. Neuroscience and psychology research reveals what a culture of concern and respect can mean to individual lawyers. It also supports moving away from grind culture and toward a healthier and more productive neuro-intelligent culture. The American and International Bar Associations have called for action that improves the well-being of individual lawyers. They have also challenged legal organizations to make the legal profession more sustainable. Transformation of the lawyering culture will involve detoxing from overwork, minimizing burnout, leveraging the energy of both introvert and extrovert lawyers, cultivating neurosignature diversity, facilitating psychological safety, reducing hierarchy, limiting competition, and embracing the Maverick lawyer leader professional identity.
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- The Legal BrainA Lawyer's Guide to Well-Being and Better Job Performance, pp. 202 - 236Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024