I was doing a difficult mediation at a law firm sometime back, and one of the senior partners turned to me when we were walking down the hall together and said, “You know, Ross, this is one of those days that I think about quitting and just going up to the high lonesome.” This was […]
Becoming an Expert In 9 Easy Steps
A Guide For The Young Associate. Much of my work with lawyers involves helping them get out of their head-down mentality to see and enact a life-path that includes but goes beyond simply being an expert in a given area of law. Yet everything about my approach assumes that a lawyer has reached the level […]
Getting Beyond “Expert” and into a Self-Authoring Life
My dad started his adult life in the1940’s hand-milking a herd of Jersey cows on a farm without electricity in Northwestern Illinois, where mice jumped out of the cereal boxes in the morning. He’d come from a hard home life, and eventually worked his way out of poverty to become a banker, a small-town patriot, […]