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Posted April 28, 2020

“I read the news today, oh boy” A Day in the Life, Lennon and McCartney The human brain contains at least 90 billion neurons, each[...]

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K. Scott McLean

Posted April 3, 2020

Skill Sets # 7: Meeting the Challenge

“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World These are, as John Lennon wrote, “strange[...]

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Practice Management

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K. Scott McLean

Posted March 27, 2020

Skill Sets # 6: Law, Preparation and Anxiety

“But I know this, a man can’t worry and hit home runs”. Jane Leavy, The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created. Events[...]

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Practice Management

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K. Scott McLean

Posted February 25, 2020

Skill Sets # 5: The Need to be Right

“Our Ego Barrier prevents us from acknowledging our weakness. Our need to be right can come before our need to know what’s true.” — Principles for[...]

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Practice Management

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K. Scott McLean

Posted January 16, 2020

Skill Sets # 4: Managing the Lawyer-Client Relationship

“Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves”. Steve Jobs One[...]

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Practice Management

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K. Scott McLean

Posted November 21, 2019

Skill Sets 3: The Gift of Time

In Africa a thing is true at first light, and a lie by noon*. (Earnest Hemingway, True at First Light) An essential skill for any[...]

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Practice Management

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K. Scott McLean

Posted October 25, 2019

Skill Sets 2: Reading Often, Reading Well

‘The structure of language…becomes a mirror of the structure of the world as presented to the intelligence.” (George Santayana) In the same sense that younger lawyers[...]

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Practice Management

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K. Scott McLean

Posted August 29, 2019

Skill Sets 1: Listening For the Spaces

Lawyers carry a mental toolbox which makes up the skill sets they acquire as their development progresses. Some skills are early acquisition skills necessary for[...]

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Practice Management

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K. Scott McLean

Posted August 15, 2019

Collaboration

We have been discussing here the many advantages of collaboration. On the weekend I attended the international sheep dog trials outside Kingston. To my delight,[...]