That Old Crowd Feeling for Supreme Court Decisions
In an interesting recent study entitled “Crowdsourcing Accurately and Robustly Predicts Supreme Court Decisions,” the conclusion is, as advertised, that “crowdsourcing outperforms both the commonly...
View ArticleOvercoming the Crowd and Fear
Given the recent post about the power of crowdsourcing in predicting judicial decisions, for those who go against the group, there is another intriguing result: their brains light up in the amygdala,...
View ArticleThe Largest Discount Yet on Best Seller Beyond Smart: Lawyering with...
Don’t let your summer go by without getting the ABA’s best seller Beyond Smart: Lawyering with Emotional Intelligence. To make it even less painful for you to brush up on your EI skills, you can now...
View ArticleThe Emotionally Intelligent CEO in Training
If you are thinking of applying to the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, you will now have to demonstrate you have some emotional intelligence skills. Last month, the Tuck School announced...
View ArticleBusiness Analytics for Law Firms
A full day’s discussion in NYC of business analytics in a digital world as it applies to law firms, which Muir participated in, has been captured in Business Intelligence and Analytics for Law Firms:...
View ArticleJoin Us at the Annual International Bar Association Meeting in Rome
For those attending the International Bar Association annual meeting in Rome this upcoming week of October 7, Muir will be speaking on a 4:15 pm panel on Monday, October 8th–chaired by Peter Alfandary,...
View ArticleCan Emotional Intelligence Be Trained?
That is the primary question. Now that emotional intelligence is well established as a major net positive in virtually every profession, what can be done to raise one’s emotional intelligence? The most...
View ArticleStanding Room Only Crowds at the EI Programs at the 2018 IBA Annual Conference
Friday, October 12th was the last day of the 2018 annual IBA conference being held in Rome, Italy. Over 7,000 lawyers from around the world converged on the Eternal City to listen to dozens and dozens...
View ArticleImportant Steps Toward Developing Lawyers’ Emotional Intelligence
There’s a reason that SAP, Google, Aetna and IBM all have Chief Mindfulness Officers–they are explicitly trying to address the emotional fallout among their ranks in tech-revolutionized workplaces. But...
View ArticleFurther Doubt Cast on Implicit Bias Training
Following up on our post of November 18, 2020, from across the pond comes further questioning of the value of implicit bias training. Ministers in the UK government have scrapped the training for...
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