Category Archives: Leadership in Law

Every conversation began with what might go wrong. The team was excellent and exhausting to lead. What the head of legal did about it.

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.

Woman Legal Leadership Women in Legal Leadership: The Cognitive Strengths the Research Now Names Women in legal practice have been developing specific cognitive capacities for most of their lives. The neuroscience now names them clearly, identifies what they produce, and shows what becomes possible when they are developed deliberately. SC Sonja CilliersCognitive Performance in Practice […]

Advocacy & Cognitive Performance Advocate Leadership and Case Team Performance: The Facts That Were Never Ventilated An advocate leads a case team whether they think of it in those terms or not. Here is what that leadership produces, what it costs when it is left to chance, and what the research on high-performing teams under […]

Authentic Leadership & Cognitive Performance Leadership Beyond Rank: What the Legal Profession Gets Wrong About Authentic Leadership The legal profession trains legal professionals to think at the highest level. It rarely trains them in authentic leadership. Here is what genuine leadership in the legal profession actually requires, and why the development gap has a measurable […]

Why Delegation in Law Firms is Imperative to Protect Cognitive Bandwidth and Reducing Bottlenecks Delegation is not about sharing work. It is about protecting decision-making. Delegation in law firms is often framed as a matter of efficiency or workload distribution. In reality, delegation is a cognitive strategy. When delegation is unclear or poorly designed, firms […]