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Beyond Right and Wrong

The Power of Effective Decision Making for Attorneys and Clients

By: Randall Kiser

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Beyond Right and Wrong

The Power of Effective Decision Making for Attorneys and Clients

By: Randall Kiser

Let us endeavor to see things as they are, and then enquire whether we ought to complain. Whether to see life as it is, will give us much consolation, I know not; but the consolation which is drawn from truth if any there be, is solid and durable: that which may be derived from errour, must be, like its original, fallacious and fugitive. Samuel Johnson, Letter to Bennet Langton (1758) Attorneys and clients make hundreds of decisions in every litigation case. From initially deciding which attorney to retain to deciding which witnesses to call at trial, from deciding whether to ?le a complaint to deciding whether to appeal a verdict, attorneys and clients make multiple, critical decisions about strategies, costs, arguments, valuations, evidence and negotiations. Once made, these de- sions are scrutinized by an opponent intent on exploiting the consequences of any mistake. In this intense and adversarial arena, decision-making errors often are transparent, irreversible and dispositive, wielding the power to bankrupt clients and dissolve law ?rms. Although attorneys and clients may regard sound decision making as incidental to effective lawyering, sound decision making actually is the essence of effective lawyering. An attorney’s knowledge, intelligence and experience are inert re- urces until the attorney decides how to deploy those skills to serve the client’s interests. Those decisions, in turn, largely determine a case’s course and outcome.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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364203814X

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9783642038143

How Leading Lawyers Think

Expert Insights Into Judgment and Advocacy

By: Randall Kiser

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How Leading Lawyers Think

Expert Insights Into Judgment and Advocacy

By: Randall Kiser

In this book, 78 leading attorneys in California and New York describe how they evaluate, negotiate and resolve litigation cases. Selected for their demonstrated skill in predicting trial outcomes and knowing when cases should be settled or taken to trial, these attorneys identify the key factors in case evaluation and share successful strategies in pre-trial discovery, negotiation, mediation, and trials. Integrating law and psychology, the book shows how skilled attorneys mentally frame cases, understand jurors’ perspectives, develop persuasive themes and arguments and achieve exceptional results for clients.

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275

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642204848

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9783642204845

Well-Being in the Legal Profession

Altruism, Justice, and Legal Reform

By: Randall Kiser

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Well-Being in the Legal Profession

Altruism, Justice, and Legal Reform

By: Randall Kiser

This book provides a critical psychosocial analysis of legal practice, documenting a mental health crisis among lawyers and judges and linking this crisis to a dysfunctional legal system they continue to control. Tracing studies of lawyers and judges over 40 years, this book demonstrates that decades of mental distress and social detachment in the legal profession have seriously damaged the legal system. Focusing largely on conditions in the United States but also drawing on studies from the UK, Canada, Germany, and Australia, the book depicts how this system is jeopardized by lawyers’ egocentrism, depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and substance abuse. To improve the legal system and lawyers’ mental health—integrating law, psychology, sociology, and policy making—the book advocates a renewed commitment to justice, compassion, respect, and fairness through an ethic of regenerative altruism. This book will appeal to legal academics concerned with the sociology of legal practice, as well as those involved in training lawyers; it will also be of interest to practicing lawyers, judges, and others engaged by issues of social justice and legal reform.

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Taylor & Francis

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104020385X

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9781040203859

Professional Judgment for Lawyers

By: Randall Kiser

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Professional Judgment for Lawyers

By: Randall Kiser

Written by the leading authority on legal decision making, Professional Judgment for Lawyers integrates empirical legal research, cognitive and social psychology, organizational behavior, legal ethics, and neuroscience to understand and improve decision making by attorneys, clients, judges, arbitrators, mediators, and juries.

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475

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1035314819

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9781035314812

Soft Skills for the Effective Lawyer

By: Randall Kiser

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Soft Skills for the Effective Lawyer

By: Randall Kiser

In this groundbreaking book, Randall Kiser presents a multi-disciplinary, practice-based introduction to the major soft skills for lawyers: self-awareness, self-development, social proficiency, wisdom, leadership, and professionalism. The work serves as both a map and a vehicle for developing the skills essential to self-knowledge and fulfillment, organizational respect and accomplishment, client satisfaction and appreciation, and professional improvement and distinction. It identifies the most important soft skills for attorneys, describes and applies hundreds of studies regarding psychology, law, and soft skills, and provides concrete steps and methods to improve soft skills. The book should be read by law students, attorneys, and anyone else interested in how lawyers should practice law.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108267378

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Book's by Randall Kiser

Beyond Right and Wrong

Beyond Right and Wrong

How Leading Lawyers Think

How Leading Lawyers Think

Well-Being in the Legal Profession

Well-Being in the Legal Profession

Professional Judgment for Lawyers

Professional Judgment for Lawyers

Soft Skills for the Effective Lawyer

Soft Skills for the Effective Lawyer

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