Soft Skills for the Effective Lawyer

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.