Articles on how legal professionals think, decide and cope.
More than a hundred articles on how legal professionals think, decide and hold up under pressure, written for the profession from inside it. Search the library, start with the pieces most people begin with, or browse by theme.
Six articles to read first.
AI in legal practice: protecting what the tool cannot supply
AI will draft eleven competent pages before the notice of motion has been reread. Whether its quiet error is caught depends on a capacity only experience builds, and on keeping it in condition.
What the profession will not name
Three loads legal professionals carry in silence: a mind that narrows under strain, a weight that cannot be put down, and a self that disappears into the role.
The mind comes back
The companion piece: how clear thinking returns after a hard stretch, what comes back first, and a week small enough to keep.
Why legal professionals skip the mental health article
Mental health is the condition of the mind you work with every day. What sustained pressure does to the legal brain, and three habits that protect it.
Why your legal team skips the leadership programme
The legal function is on every invitation list and is rarely in the room. Why generic training misses in-house legal teams, and what reaches them.
The letter that made you furious
A hostile letter lands at half past four. What the threat system does to the reply you want to send, and the rule of the second reading.
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The monthly column.
Cognitive Performance in Practice, written by Sonja Cilliers and Maryke Swarts for De Rebus, the journal of the South African attorneys’ profession.
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