Law Students

Something's wrong with my brain...
Help me figure this out - it's driving me crazy! Did you see the article in the NYT yesterday about ?change blindness?? ?When Jeremy Wolfe of Harvard Medical School, speaking last week at a symposium devoted to the crossover theme of Art and Neuroscience, wanted to illustrate how the brain sees the world and how often it fumbles the job, he naturally turned to a great work of art...

Speaking can lead to mediating and morepart 1
There are a few tried and true ways to get the word out about your mediation practice, and speaking is one of them. Ok, I know that public speaking ranks in the top five of universal fears, but please, people...

George Carlin Dead
I refuse to say he “passed away.” He would have hated that. The world is just that much less honest, funny, and free today. Naturally, Carlin was an inspiration to me, and I hope that his material continues to influence young minds for all time...

Nineteen-year-old Jessica Vasquez Arrested in Beating of Eighty-One-Year-Old Woman
"I guess I was born, naturally born, born bad. Born bad, it's such as sin . . . I'll never be the same again. I'm naturally born to be, bad as a girl can be. . . ." When I...

Speaking In Public
Duct Tape Marketing has a post in which it defines pubic speaking as a "competitive marketing skill". I do not know if that is a good definition, but I get the point. I just wonder if calling it "competitive" will just do more to discourage lawyers, especially new lawyers, from marketing their practice in this way...

Public Speaking: Words, Voice, Body & the Oft Quoted Bogus Study
If you've ever had a public speaking course or read more than a book or two about public speaking, you've likely encountered the statement that 55% of the message you convey comes from your body language, 38% comes from your...