Practice Well — For Lawyers is for anyone in the early years of legal practice, and for those further along who want the training rather than the advice. It is a two-year programme built for demanding work and little spare time, and it can be used in pieces.
The habits that make a good lawyer, such as finding the flaw, can follow you home. Here you build the psychological skills that carry a long legal career: thinking clearly about yourself and about the case, hope, resilience, self-compassion and attention under load. You see your own figures, each a number with its band, at the start, the mid-point and the end. It teaches skills rather than therapy, and several modules say when to work with a professional rather than alone.
You begin with The Eleven Walls: My Own Audit, which reads eleven capabilities separately and names the modules that will do most for you. Clear Thinking About the Case works on the biases that bend professional judgement, with tools such as Reading the Matter. Boundaries and Recovery attends to rest, sleep and the life beyond the work, and two projects, Project 1: My First Year in Practice and Project 2: The Lawyer I Am Becoming, gather what you have learned.
On WorkSmart4Life the course sits under Sustain, the move about energy and recovery. Tools such as How Safe Is My Team? and Rest & Recovery Wheel also appear in Work Well Together. I suggest you start with The Eleven Walls and take the modules in the order it suggests; you can also try the whole course free for 24 hours.
Dr Alten du PlessisFounder, WorkSmart4Life