A
majority of clients agree with the
statement that lawyers "are less
compassionate and caring" than they used
to be.
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Parole boards are
significantly more likely to grant parole
right after lunch than right before lunch.
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Most
lawyers overestimate the likelihood of
positive outcomes in cases.
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Conservatives
are better able to predict the arguments
that will sway liberals than liberal are
able to predict what arguments will move
conservatives.
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With
very few exceptions, things that happen to
us today will have no effect on our
happiness level three months from now.
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Justice
Scalia says his "best buddy" on the Supreme
Court is Justice Ginsburg.
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A
2011 study showed that empathy levels of
college students had declined 40% from
levels measured in college students two or
three decades ago.
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Our
reasoning system serves our intuition as "a
lawyer serves a client"--primarily as an
apologist for decisions that are really made
by intuition.
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In 2012, Cook
County, Illinois public defenders handled
an average of 685 cases per lawyer. |
By
requiring lawyers to sign statements stating,
"All the billing time indicated is a true and
honest reflection of actual hours billed,"
overbilling is reduced by 15%..
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Group
forecasts of outcomes, according to Nate
Silver, are "between 15 and 20 percent"
more accurate than individual forecasts.
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In
a Gallup Poll, only 19% of Americans
thought the honesty and ethics of lawyers
was either "high" or "very high."
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The writing quality
of perfectionists is "significantly lower
in quality" than that of
non-perfectionists.
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As we age, the right hemispheres of our
brains (the center for creative and novel
solutions) degrades more rapidly than the
left hemispheres, where most pattern
recognition takes place.
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While
people recall only 20% of what they read,
thy will recall 80% of the symbols.
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Clarence
Darrow preferred Irish jurors to German,
Methodist jurors to Baptist, but
especially preferred "Jew and agnostic"
jurors.
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MRIs show
that at least ten interconnected regions of
the brain are active during empathizing. |
Self-control
is the single best predictor of a
successful career and a successful life.
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