Ideas on meaning, ethics, and identity—drawing from Stoicism and humanist thought to explore how we live and learn.
Lately I’ve been reflecting on how quickly technology has woven itself into the client journey — and what that means for the deeply human work at the heart of succession law.
A recent UNSW Law Journal article on Therapeutic Jurisprudence and virtue ethics reminded me that wellbeing, presence and character still matter just as much as efficiency. Tech can support us, but it can’t replace the pauses, stories and emotions that help us ask the right questions and build trust.
Boundaries in the legal profession are strange things. We talk about them often, yet they’re rarely taught, and even more rarely practiced with intention. Most of us learn them the hard way—through exhaustion, resentment, or that slow internal drift where the work begins to swallow entire pieces of your life. And, then, of course, burnout….
Legal practice is so often framed around competence, precision, and technical mastery—but anyone who has actually lived this work knows that the emotional terrain is just as demanding. The emails that land too late, the conversations that turn sharper than expected, the weight of other people’s crises sitting in your inbox. Ooh golly, that can…
Ever wonder why some things just stick, and others don’t? Why some days it’s harder to grasp a concept, or just work a problem? No. Geez, you’re lucky! I certainly have. In the course of my studies, I was lead to this concept of cognitive load theory. The basic premise is that it’s a theory about…
