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 | Feb 18, 2016 | Great Strides and Small Steps, Redefining a Successful Lawyer, The Lawyer's Compass
I was recently having dinner with a group of friends and family, I asked them if they had a positive or negative association with the phrase “The devil is in the details”. Three said negative and two saw it neutrally. I’ve been bedeviled by this...
by Jim Dwyer | Feb 3, 2016 | Living Our Best Life, Practicing Law and Life, Redefining a Successful Lawyer, The Lawyer's Compass
Like my grandpa Jim, most of us have a compass in our pocket – at least if that’s where we carry our smartphone. Compass apps are so easy to use. We don’t have to be standing still or making sure we are holding it level. We open the app … and...
by Jim Dwyer | Aug 31, 2015 | Living Our Best Life, Practicing Law and Life, Redefining a Successful Lawyer
Power is at the core of being an attorney. I’m constantly analyzing how much power each side has in any given exchange. I want more. I can never really have too much. I want to be the smartest in how I use the facts, statutes or case law to win for my client...
by Jim Dwyer | May 18, 2015 | Great Strides and Small Steps, Living Our Best Life, Practicing Law and Life, Redefining a Successful Lawyer
What are the reasons you work? The truth is there are many reasons that we work. The question should be, “What are the purposes that you work?” No doubt the response we all share is, to make a living. You have bills to pay, things you want to buy, people...
