by Jim Dwyer | Nov 9, 2017 | Living Our Best Life, Power of Relationships, Practicing Law and Life, The Lawyer's Compass
Law school was the most intense two years of my life. (I was in an accelerated two-year program.) The anxiety it caused was overwhelming on a near-daily basis. The idea of going it alone day after day was more than I wanted to endure. While I spent more hours than I...
by Jim Dwyer | Oct 19, 2017 | Living Our Best Life, Practicing Law and Life, The Lawyer's Compass
Four months ago I was at a fundraising event and I’d just met a gentleman when he asked me a question that I generally steer clear of discussing: “What do you do for a living?” I answered (with hesitation) “I’m a lawyer.” “What type of law do you do?” he asked. “I’m...
by Jim Dwyer | Mar 30, 2017 | Living Our Best Life, Practicing Law and Life
A disruption is a radical change in a process that causes something to not work in the normal way. It can be a business model, technology, a country or a person. No one or thing is immune from it. It sucks to be disrupted. When was the last time it happened to you?...
by Jim Dwyer | Jan 12, 2017 | Living Our Best Life, Practicing Law and Life, The Lawyer's Compass
When someone is talking angrily to me, I don’t really hear what’s being said as I’m focused on how they’re saying it. Any of us can get caught up in “an emotion spin cycle.” What could’ve been a frustration or a simple misunderstanding takes on a disproportionate...
by Jim Dwyer | Dec 1, 2016 | Learning to Listen, Living Our Best Life, Practicing Law and Life
Have you ever been lied to? I have. It makes me angry and sad. Lies destabilize what they touch and can wreak havoc in a relationship. I discovered that I was being lied to earlier this year. In fact, it had been going on for so long it was hard to believe I hadn’t...
by Jim Dwyer | Nov 3, 2016 | Living Our Best Life, Practicing Law and Life
When I decided to go to law school it wasn’t because I had a burning desire to be a lawyer, right wrongs, or fight for the little guy. I’d graduated from college with a history degree, then moved to San Diego to try and figure life out at the ripe old age of 24. After...
