An astute legal counsel requires people skills to deal with different types of people.
He/she needs to be eloquent, confident and well-informed about all the issues surrounding a court case or any brief.
In the office spectrum, a Counsel cannot choose co-workers and must learn how to make do with the ones available and relate with them cordially & professionally.
The game changer for any counsel, is to choose or list down some of the positive attributes about fellow co-workers and focus on them.
As a Counsel, you must set the boundary between your personal & professional life, this way your colleagues will have nothing to use against you.
Consider using Johari’s Window, as a tool to improve your interpersonal relationship with your colleagues.
Johari’s Window, is a tool that was invented by Psychologists Joseph Luft & Harry Ingham, and focuses on improving our self-awareness and helps us understand the difference between how individuals see themselves and how they perceive them.
The only way to do great work, is to love what you do.
Go after your dream, regardless of the obstacles, the Universe is a great equalizer and will adjust to accommodate you.
All advocates are aligned to the brick-and-mortar and require benevolent dictatorship to straighten their law firms!
TRAITS & INSTINCT OF A GOOD LAWYER
To survive personnel upheaval in Government and in the private sector and to outwit the demands by an informed citizenry, a sharp and a brilliant legal luminary must wear a deceptively baby-faced smile and affected moronic demeanor to unlock the money vaults in the ever changing macro-economic environment that threatens the men and women living in the ‘ivory towers’ whose love & penchant for opulence and the allure of queens language leaves ordinary mortals empty handed and crestfallen in a maze of legal mumbo jambo.
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