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<td style="padding-left:10px; padding-top:10px; padding-bottom:10px; padding-right:15px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:10pt;"><strong>Welcome to Bar Briefs, your quick weekly collection of practice tips,<br />
membership benefits, upcoming events, new products, and more!
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<h2 style="color: #045394;"><span style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><img src="
http://images.wisbar.org/Images/DigestEmails/WisLap_Cortex_200w.jpg" alt="" width="133" height="152" align="right"/></span>Order in the Cortex: Mindfulness for Lawyers</h2>
<p style="margin-bottom: 10px;">In the adversarial, high-stress world of legal practice, mindfulness can improve your quality of life and even help you become a more effective attorney. </p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 7px;">In a nutshell, mindfulness is the practice of paying attention to life in the present moment. If you find your mind wandering, you simply notice that it has wandered away and bring it gently back to the present.
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<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px;">According to the State Bar’s <a href="
http://www.wisbar.org/forMembers/WisLAP/Pages/Lawyer-Assistance-Program.aspx">Wisconsin Lawyer Assistance Program (WisLAP)</a><sup style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; "> 1</sup>, practicing mindfulness can benefit you in many ways, both personally and professionally, such as:
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<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong>Improved focus</strong> – Keeping your mind in the present allows you to attend to your workday more closely, increasing your efficiency while decreasing the impact of outside distractions. </p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong>Increased self-awareness and self-regulation</strong> – Staying focused on your five senses helps you pay better attention to detail, thereby improving the accuracy of your work. By keeping your emotions balanced and your perspective grounded, mindfulness also helps you regulate your reactions to yourself and others. </p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong>Better understanding of thoughts and emotions</strong> – Mindfulness teaches you that your thoughts are not necessarily facts. For example, you may think someone is intentionally trying to sabotage your work, when in reality, their behavior has nothing to do with you. You learn to sit with your emotions without having to respond to them, decreasing the conflict in your life.
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<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong>Healthier social skills and relationships:</strong> Mindfulness teaches increased compassion, generosity, and gratitude for yourself and others. This translates to social interactions that are less confrontational and more collaborative and compassionate. </p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px;">The resources below can help you learn more and start your own mindfulness practice:
<h3 style="color: #045394; margin-bottom: 10px;">The name of the game: Petitioning for a name change</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px;">The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has designated the Board of Bar Examiners (BBE) as the court agency responsible for processing name changes for members of the State Bar of Wisconsin; whether the change of name is necessary in order to comply with sec. 757.30(4) Wis. Stats, or in the result of a marriage or divorce. The BBE processes your petition and then notifies the following offices:</p>
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<li>Clerk of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin (Roll of Attorneys);</li>
<li>Office of Lawyer Regulation (disciplinary records); and</li>
<li>State Bar of Wisconsin (mandatory bar membership records, dues billings and subscriptions).</li></ol>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="
https://www.wicourts.gov/services/attorney/name.htm">More information and the Petition name change form, can we found on the BBE website</a>.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px;">Do you have a professional or personal name different from your formal legal name? WisBar.org’s Lawyer Search results list lawyers according their legal names on record with the Wisconsin Supreme Court. However, the State Bar’s WisBar Lawyer Search recently started allowing alternative name variations to your profile on WisBar. <a href="
http://www.wisbar.org/newspublications/insidetrack/pages/article.aspx?volume=8&issue=8&articleid=24774&source=carousel">More information can be found here</a>.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong>How long have you written for PINNACLE?</strong> <br /> Since 1998, when PINNACLE published the first edition of Wisconsin Law of Easements.
</p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong>What inspired you to write for PINNACLE?</strong> <br /> Cleaning up messes created by poorly drafted documents.
</p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong>If you could have dinner with any author, dead or alive, who would it be and why?</strong> <br /> Henry David Thoreau, because he refused to let his life be dictated by others. He'd stick me with the tab, though.
</p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong>Is being a writer a gift or a curse?</strong> <br /> A gift. Few activities give me more satisfaction.
</p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong>How do you manage deadlines and priorities?</strong> <br /> I treat publication deadlines as seriously as client-imposed deadlines.
</p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong>Do you remember the first book that you read that made an impact on you?</strong> <br /> Escape from Warsaw, a mystery for children set in World War II. I re-read it probably 8 or 9 times.
</p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong>Do grammatical errors drive you nuts? If so, which ones?</strong> <br /> My current peeve: people starting their sentences with "So." "So" is the new "like." Listen to any NPR interview and you'll hear it. Constantly.</strong> <br />
</p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong>What’s one interesting or unexpected thing you learned while writing for PINNACLE?</strong> <br /> That PINNACLE's editors know much more about grammar and style than I do.
</p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong>Do you have advice for other authors?</strong> <br /> You can concoct a zillion reasons not to write something. Ignore them.</p>
</p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px;">Interested in writing for the State Bar? <a href="
http://www.wisbar.org/NewsPublications/Contribute/Pages/contribute.aspx">Get started today</a>.</p>
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http://images.wisbar.org/Images/DigestEmails/LawPay_175w.jpg" alt="" width="152" height="57" align="right"/>Get paid and reduce collections by accepting credit cards</h3>
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<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px;">Sign up for a LawPay account by October 31st and receive your first three months free!</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px;">Call (866) 376-0950 or <a href="
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<h3 style="color: #045394; margin-bottom: 6px;">Gain a competitive edge without leaving your chair by using WisBar. </h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 6px;">Law Student Associates receive free access to the members-only areas of the State Bar’s web site – WisBar.org.
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:8pt;"> *This offer is not available with any other discount and expires September 30, 2016. Discount cannot be applied to previous purchases, or used for renewals of subscriptions, auto-supplementation subscriptions, or Books UnBound full library subscriptions.</span></p>
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:8pt;">MKT417E </span>
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