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Behavioral Legal Ethics, Decision Making, And The New Attorney's Unique Professional Perspective, Catherine Gage O'Grady
Behavioral Legal Ethics, Decision Making, And The New Attorney's Unique Professional Perspective, Catherine Gage O'Grady
Nevada Law Journal
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Mindful Ethics And The Cultivation Of Concentration, Scott L. Rogers, Jan L. Jacobowitz
Mindful Ethics And The Cultivation Of Concentration, Scott L. Rogers, Jan L. Jacobowitz
Nevada Law Journal
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How Improving Decision-Making And Mindfulness Can Improve Legal Ethics And Professionalism, Peter H. Huang
How Improving Decision-Making And Mindfulness Can Improve Legal Ethics And Professionalism, Peter H. Huang
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Lawyers who behave unethically and unprofessionally do so for various reasons, ranging from intention to carelessness. Lawyer misconduct can also result from decision-making flaws. Psychologist Chip Heath and his brother Dan Heath, in their best-selling book, Decisive: How to Make Better Decisions in Life and Work, suggest a process to improve people’s decision-making. They introduce the acronym WRAP as the mnemonic for these decision-making heuristics: (1) Widen your options, (2) Reality-test your assumptions, (3) Attain distance before deciding, and (4) Prepare to be wrong. The WRAP process mitigates these cognitive biases: (1) narrow framing of a decision problem, (2) …