by Jim Dwyer | Jan 25, 2018 | Learning to Listen, Living Our Best Life, Office Practice is Life Practice
Preparing for my presentation on “Fake Listening” for the Lawyer’s as Changemakers seminar made it crystal clear that the negative reputation we lawyers have is self-inflicted. Here’s a breakdown of the four primary complaints about lawyers: Lack of...
by Jim Dwyer | Sep 27, 2017 | Office Practice is Life Practice, Redefining a Successful Lawyer
Every legal seminar and workshop that I’ve gone to over the last 29 years has been about improving my knowledge of the law and how to effectively communicate to a jury — until The Lawyers as Changemakers workshop. I attended and spoke at last Friday. While technical...
by Jim Dwyer | Sep 21, 2017 | Office Practice is Life Practice, Redefining a Successful Lawyer
I’m honored and excited to be a speaker and sponsor for Portland’s first Lawyer’s as Changemakers event. We hear lots of legitimate complaints about the legal system and not enough ideas about how to bring about needed transformation. This has been my mission...
by Jim Dwyer | Jun 28, 2017 | Office Practice is Life Practice, Power of Relationships
Just the other week I was talking with a client who hadn’t worked in eight months because of being rear ended. After months of therapy and injections, the verdict was in. He needed surgery. One year prior to this accident, he had a knee replacement and finally...
by Jim Dwyer | Oct 12, 2016 | Living Our Best Life, Office Practice is Life Practice, Practicing Law and Life
Have you ever hesitated telling someone what you do for a living? I have. And for longer than I care to admit. In fact, for a number of years I wouldn’t ask the simple question “What do you do for a living?”, because it meant the other person would reciprocate with a...
by Jim Dwyer | Jan 8, 2016 | Living Our Best Life, Office Practice is Life Practice, Practicing Law and Life, The Lawyer's Compass
What I love most about being in Hawaii in November is that I get to escape the cold and wet of Portland, Oregon. Along with the warm water, air and soft sand that I love so much about Hawaii, I’m also seemingly surrounded by compasses. Being in a state that is a...
