How to Stop Thinking Like a Lawyer and Love It

Looking back on my career as a personal injury lawyer in Newfoundland and Labrador, the unifying theme has been access to justice, particularly for those injured in accidents and through medical malpractice. More recently I have became involved in class action practice as a means for people to access justice and hold wrongdoers accountable. My legal career has been challenging, busy, and rewarding. Perhaps at times, too busy.

I had the honor of addressing a talk to an audience of law students and professors at Dalhousie Law School last week, and for my topic I took the puzzling title above: How to stop thinking like a lawyer and love it.

Puzzling, because law students go through three years of extensive indoctrination to learn to think like a lawyer. Why would they want to undo all that training? The topic must have aroused curiosity because on the Thursday before a long weekend, there was an audience of about 80 people. My answer has more to do with mindset and with living a great life than it does with anything technical and legal. You can read more at following link to the text for my talk.