Civility: Why It’s Critical to Keep Your Cool

Find yourself feeling irritated? Frustrated? Downright grind-your-teeth angry? Maybe you skipped breakfast. And lunch. Maybe your spouse was nasty to you at dinner last night. Maybe you can't stand the way opposing counsel flagrantly misinterprets the law while jabbing his finger in the air. Maybe you've been deliberately made the scapegoat for another attorney's huge mistakes. Perhaps you have 100 different reasons, both legitimate and exaggerated, that have combined to create a swirling hot cloud of steam roiling between your ears, just waiting to blow. ... READ THE REST

Originally published June 12, 2014 0 1