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Thank you all who have responded so positively. I trusted you might but thought it best to run it past you first. I'll approach him and get his thoughts. Thanks to all. Of course I'm still open to hear further thoughts. Leslie Sent from my iPad > On Sep 1, 2015, at 7:11 PM, Cathryn Lloyd <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > What a great link about law and creativity. > > Story is at the heart of human endeavour and interactions. > > Law/lawyers definitely needs more time and space for tapping into creativity and other sensibilities. > > Unfortunately the way law (as well as accounting) and particularly the big firms are structured in how they account for time it sadly leaves little time for reflection and therefore other ways to do law. > > This also shows itself in the rate of depression in law practice. > > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kate-mayer-mangan/law-school-quadruples-dep_b_5713337.html?ir=Australia > > There was a prominent lawyer/QC in Australia who recently spoke about 20 years dealing with depression and only now that he is retiring is he willing to discuss. > > One of the things he said was that he wanted to go and put signs up around university law faculties and say “Beware toxic environment run a mile”. > > So the industry could do with some new thinking for sure. > > I have done a little bit with lawyers in my work (and accountants). It can be challenging as there is a real mind set. > > > > Kind Regards > > Dr Cathryn Lloyd | Director > > > > email: [log in to unmask] > phone: +61 406 007 753 > skype: maverickminds > facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MaverickMinds1 > ABN: 71161619816 > > PO Box 15083, City East, Brisbane, Qld 4002 > > www.maverickminds.biz > > <Certified Creativity Coach.jpg> > > > > > IMPORTANT: The information transmitted is for the use of the intended recipient only and may contain confidential and/or legally privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, disclosure, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify Maverick Minds via telephone +61 406 007 753 or Email: [log in to unmask] and delete all copies of this transmission together with any attachments. > > > > > On 2 Sep 2015, at 12:22 am, Michele Stanners <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > I'll fess up now - my first career was in law. Even then, at some level, I understood the connections, the adjacent possibility created by the story, by art. We won more than one case by taking a creative approach to writing briefs for the court. And though this raised eyebrows, particularly since I was new at the bar, I was told by one judge that it was a welcome change, that he did not fall asleep reading them. In one appeal on a murder conviction, the Facts began with: "It was a sordid love triangle." > > Much later, I read Martha Nussbaum who said , "you can't really change the heart without telling a story". She also wrote about the judiciary, the bench and the importance of reading fiction to access empathy, all in the larger context of the importance of the humanities. > > What a gift to the world it would be to bring more art and creativity to the practice of law and all its trappings.... > > My five cents worth (in anticipation of Canada doing away with the penny) > > And if you have read this far, please check out the fascinating project I am currently involved in – makingtreaty7.com. I could use some help in writing about this. > > Michèle > > > > Michèle Stanners > Interim Executive Director > Making Treaty 7 > > 587-896-3226 > > Sent from my iPhone > Please excuse typos and Siri > > On Sep 1, 2015, at 7:32 AM, Terri McNichol <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> ... and then there is Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. who took a humanities approach to the law moving American legal thinking towards legal realism, as summed up in his maxim: "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience." >> >> Terri McNichol >> President, Ren Associates; Developer imaginement™ >> http://renassociates.com >> Independent Scholar, princetonresearchforum.org >> Telephone +1.609.371.5354 >> Cell +1.609.638.5878 > > <PastedGraphic-1.tiff>