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Every conversation began with what might go wrong. The team was excellent and exhausting to lead. What the head of legal did about it.
Author Archives: Sonja Cilliers
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The work that should sit with an associate sits with a director. The usual explanation blames the juniors. The one that survives examination is about how the senior brain assesses risk.
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Heat in the face, a blank mind, a draft covered in red. What happens in the ten minutes after a correction decides the afternoon.
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Six live items, and the equipment you are holding them with was built for four. Why the first year feels impossible, and what to do about it.
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Nobody warns a candidate attorney about the second thing they will learn in their first year: a set of conclusions about themselves, filed fast and without evidence.
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The same practitioner, the same matter, a different decision at four than at nine. This is not a mood. It is decision fatigue, and it is measurable.
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The file is closed. The mind is not. What legal training does to the off switch, and how to give the brain permission to stop.
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One file on the desk has not been opened for eleven days, and you are not a lazy person. Here is what the brain is doing and how to get the file open.
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The Work Is Not Getting Harder. Your Bandwidth Is Getting Fuller. Cognitive agility in legal practice is the ability to hold complexity, move between matters, and keep your decision-making intact from the first hour of the day to the last. It rests on a resource with a fixed limit, and legal practice spends that limit […]
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Cognitive Performance Why Everything Takes Longer in Your First Year of Legal Practice The gap between law school and legal practice is not a confidence gap. It is a neurological one. The brain processes unfamiliar professional tasks in a fundamentally different way from familiar ones, at greater cost, greater duration, and greater vulnerability to error. […]