Ronda Muir’s second edition of her user-friendly best-selling Beyond Smart: Lawyering with Emotional Intelligence updates the research that shows how lawyers in all walks of the profession can use the burgeoning science of emotional intelligence (EI) to address the pressing issues individual lawyers and practices are currently being confronted with, including how to:

• Become smarter, better practitioners - as negotiators, civil and criminal litigators, and judges;
• Be personally more productive and profitable;
• Become physically and mentally healthier in an era of high post-Covid stress;
• Be more effective leaders in an increasingly challenging profession;
• Develop practices that can thrive in a competitive and technologically complex marketplace, so as to be able to outperform even the rise of artificial intelligence;
• Build practices that profit from higher emotional intelligence through increased performance, enhanced teamwork, and greater client satisfaction, as well as lower attrition, healthcare, and professional liability costs;
• Address the workplace issues arising from remote work, high-stress and disengagement that are bedeviling legal practices; and
• Take the steps available to individuals, law schools, and workplaces to raise personal and profession-wide emotional intelligence.

For legal professionals wanting to improve their productivity, communication, client service and leadership skills and create a high performance, high functioning and more profitable workplace in the 21st century, there is no better guide than the second edition of Beyond Smart: Lawyering with Emotional Intelligence.