Tag: mindfulness

Margaret Reuter, Stephen A Rosenbaum & Danielle Pelfrey Duryea, “Attorney as Accompagnateur: Resilient Lawyering When Victory is Uncertain or Nearly Impossible”

May 19, 2024

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Meris Bray

in Annotated Bibliography, Emotions, Format – Article, Social Justice

This article addresses the difficult consequences of social justice lawyering, including when even a “win” for a client still leaves clients in the same unjust situations and systems they began with. They propose that the role of “Accompagnateur” can be helpful – which resituates the lawyer’s role as accompanying the client (meaning: “stand beside, stand…
Colin James, “Seeing Things as We Are. Emotional Intelligence and Clinical Legal Education”

May 18, 2024

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Meris Bray

in Annotated Bibliography, Best Practices, Empathy, Evaluation, Format – Article, Mentorship, Reflective Practice, Well-being

This article considers how clinical legal education provides the best opportunities to engage with students at a level that will impact their inner well-being. It examines sets out an understanding of emotional intelligence and its relevance in clinical legal education. Emotional intelligence is defined as a partnership between our rational brain and the limbic brain;…