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<h2 style="color: #045394; margin-bottom: 7px;">Get Out There and Learn a New Skill,<br />
Doggone It! </h2>
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<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 7px;"><span style="color: #045394; margin-bottom: 7px;"><img src="
http://images.wisbar.org/Images/DigestEmails/Me_AlsoMe_2V.jpg" alt="" width="230" height="314" align="right"/></span>Personal development is well… personal. No matter what improvement you want to make, it’s about YOU. But who has time for themselves anymore? Is taking time to learn just another added pressure? Or is it actually beneficial?
</p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 7px;">According to PEW Research<sup style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; ">1</sup>:</p>
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87% of personal learners say their activities helped them feel more capable and well rounded.
</li><li>69% say their learning opened up new perspectives about their lives.
</li><li>64% say their learning helped them make new friends.
</li><li>58% say it made them feel more connected to their local community.
</li><li>43% say it prompted them to get more involved in volunteer opportunities.</li></ul>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 7px;">The good news is there are websites and apps that can make it easier to improve yourself 24/7. Check out these popular options and start your personal development journey today.
</p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 7px;"><a href="
https://www.lumosity.com/"><strong>Lumosity</strong></a> – Test and strengthen your information processing speed, attention, and memory with entertaining cognitive games. You get three daily rotating games free, or you can upgrade to more games for a monthly fee. There’s also a great online version so you can play on your desktop. </p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 7px;"><a href="
https://www.duolingo.com/"><strong>Dulingo</strong></a> – Become a multilingual speaker with 70+ language courses made up of short, fun lessons. You can select daily goals to stay motivated, so it’s perfect for casual or serious learners. Plus, it’s free. Or, as the Spaniards say, “Es gratis.” </p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 7px;"><a href="
https://www.udemy.com/"><strong>Udemy</strong></a> – An old dog can definitely learn new tricks. Udemy is a global online learning portal with lessons in business, arts and crafts, fitness, design, information technology, and more. Prices range from free to $200. </p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 7px;"><a href="
https://www.coursera.org/"><strong>Coursera</strong></a> – Think personal development only pertains to “soft skills”? Coursera offers in-depth online learning from major universities. </p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 7px;"><a href="
https://www.headspace.com/"><strong>Headspace</strong></a> – This monthly subscription service providing 10-minute meditation programs is designed to help you achieve maximum concentration and decrease stress. </p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 7px;"><a href="
http://www.startofhappiness.com/personal-development-blogs/"><img src="
http://images.wisbar.org/Images/DigestEmails/Dog2_175w.jpg" alt="" width="175" height="107" align="right"/></a>Here are some additional resources to help you on the road to personal development:
</p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 7px;"><a href="
http://www.startofhappiness.com/personal-development-blogs/">Top 100 Personal Development Blogs 2017</a> </p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 7px;"><a href="
http://www.bestcollegereviews.org/50-top-online-learning-sites/">50 Top Online Learning Sites</a> </p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 7px;">Remember – it’s never too late to become the person you are capable of being.
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<h3 style="color: #045394; margin-bottom: 7px;">Personal Development Opportunities at AMC 2017</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 7px;"><strong>Pre-conference Ethics Session: <em>Chutes & Ladders for Lawyers</em></strong><br />
Ensure your practice is built on a solid ethical foundation. Get guidance on incorporating new ethics rules and find advice for tackling the common ethical conundrums of daily practice.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 7px;"><strong>Closing Plenary: <em>The Other Wes Moore</em></strong><br />
What difference can one person make in our divided world? Plenty! Hear the inspiring story of a man who left the difficult neighborhood of his youth to become a Rhodes Scholar, White House Fellow, and army veteran. You’ll leave with a new outlook on life and lots of motivation to tackle today’s problems.
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<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 7px;"><strong>Mindfulness & Meditation Session</strong><br />
Tight deadlines, challenging cases, and difficult clients can all contribute to high levels of stress in the legal profession. Learn how mindfulness can help you handle the stressors in your life, and take part in a brief meditation session you can do in your office.
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<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 7px;">Plus, choose from CLE sessions that can help you perfect your practice, such as:</p>
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<li><em>Writing a Winning Brief
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<li><em>The Innovation Mindset: Think Like a Client
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<li><em>Cultural Competence and the Law Practice</em></li></ul>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 7px;">Learn more and register at <a href="
http://amc.wisbar.org">amc.wisbar.org</a>. </p>
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<h3 style="color: #045394; margin-bottom: 7px;">Take Your Practice to the Next Level</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 7px;"><img src="
http://images.wisbar.org/Images/DigestEmails/wishlists_175w.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="175" align="right"/>WisBar <a href="
http://marketplace.wisbar.org/Pages/default.aspx">Marketplace</a> is your doorway to a world of practice resources. From CLE and books to forms and client training tools, Marketplace can equip you with everything you need to keep your firm successful and growing. </p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 7px;">With its huge selection of products, Marketplace can seem a bit overwhelming at first glance. Not sure where to start? Check out the <a href="
http://marketplace.wisbar.org/PracticeAreaResources/Pages/Practice-Area-Resources.aspx"><strong>Practice Area Resources</strong></a> section. It gathers together products specific to an area of practice, such as business, elder, litigation, or real estate. There’s even a collection just for new lawyers. For each practice area, you’ll find: </p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 7px;"><li>CLE OnDemand seminars
</li><li>Books and Books UnBound<sup style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; ">®</sup> titles
</li><li>Forms
</li><li>Live and webcast replay CLE seminars
</li><li>Law Office Video titles
</li><li>Consumer pamphlets</li></ul>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 7px;">Once you find items that interest you, add them to your Marketplace <strong>Wishlist</strong> using the button on every product page. It's an easy way to keep track of products you’re thinking of buying. You can even create multiple lists and access them by clicking the View Wishlists button on the right side of the page.
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 7px;">Need to catch up on your CLE requirements? <strong>CLE OnDemand</strong> and <strong>Ultimate Pass Gold</strong> are two great options to consider. <a href="
http://marketplace.wisbar.org/CLEOnDemand/Pages/default.aspx">CLE OnDemand</a> lets you watch CLE sessions on your schedule from anywhere you have an internet connection. <a href="
http://marketplace.wisbar.org/pages/product.aspx?category=&cat=&pid=cp0005">Ultimate Pass Gold</a> gives you one year of unlimited access to all PINNACLE<sup style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; ">®</sup> CLE for a single fee. </p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 7px;">See what’s new in your practice area, expand your law library, try out a new product, or even explore a new practice area with the resources you’ll find in WisBar Marketplace. <a href="
http://marketplace.wisbar.org/Pages/default.aspx">Start exploring today!</a></p>
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<h3 style="color: #045394; margin-bottom: 7px;"><img src="
http://images.wisbar.org/Images/DigestEmails/apostrophe_150w.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="224" align="right"/>To Err is Human, to Forgive Divine</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 7px;">As some of you pointed out to us after receiving last week’s Bar Briefs, we had a bit of an apostrophe crisis. As in, there weren’t any. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Not a single apostrophe to be found.</p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 7px;">The realization that you have sent something out with a mistake like that to thousands of well-educated people comes with a special kind of horror. That “reply all when you didn’t mean to” kind of horror that makes you immediately start pouring over your steps to figure out what went wrong. Why did they disappear? When did they disappear? Why didn’t we catch that they had disappeared? Why, oh, why did we have to use so many contractions in that issue?
</p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 7px;">Well, we found what went wrong. However, learning what went wrong was only the first step. We needed to figure out a way to keep it from happening again. We think we have, but we are counting on you to call us out if you see another sans-apostrophes issue in future.
</p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 7px;"><strong>Mistaking with Grace</strong><br />
We all make mistakes, but it is often “how” you make them that matters. </p>
<ol style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 7px;"><li><strong>Own it.</strong> This can be difficult to do, depending on the degree of the mistake. Hiding it or trying to justify it can make you look worse to your peers. </li><li><strong>Solve it.</strong> How can you mitigate it? Was there a larger technical or process issue at play? What will you personally do to prevent it in the future? Be active in damage control so you are not a passive recipient of the fallout. </li><li><strong>Learn from it.</strong> Contrary to popular belief, simply making a mistake isn’t an education in how to prevent it in the future. You must change your behaviors or habits to keep it from repeating. </li><li><strong>Grow from it.</strong> An important distinction here has to do with confidence. If you have survived a mistake, and done so with grace, it gives you empathy for others and a resilience that few other experiences will. Don’t let mistakes hold you back from being creative or taking risks. </li><li><strong>Wait for it.</strong> Serious mistakes that violate someone’s trust can create wounds that take time to heal. Make sure you have sincerely apologized to that person, ask what you can do to re-earn trust, and then wait. It might be awhile.</li></ol>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 7px;">The best way to see mistakes is not as an end, but a beginning. <em>Harvard Business Review</em> has helpful articles on personal mistakes, company mistakes, and learning from failure. </p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 7px;"><a href="
https://hbr.org/2010/04/youve-made-a-mistake-now-what">You Made a Mistake, Now What?</a><br />
<a href="
https://hbr.org/2016/05/increase-your-return-on-failure">Increase Your Return on Failure</a><br />
<a href="
https://hbr.org/2011/04/strategies-for-learning-from-failure">Learn from Failure (video)</a></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 7px;">They make great reads after you’ve screwed up. Trust us. We know. </p>
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<div align="center"><img src="
http://images.wisbar.org/Images/DigestEmails/bkofwk_digest-purple.jpg" width="250" height="83" alt=""/><h3>Book of the Week<br />
Ends Friday, April 21</h3></div>
<h3 style="color: #045394; margin-bottom: 6px;">Marital Property Law in Wisconsin</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 6px;"><span class="black" style="color: #000"><a href="
http://marketplace.wisbar.org/Pages/Product.aspx?category=&cat=&pid=AK0067">Print Book</a>:<br />
List:<s> $249 member</s> / <s>$309 nonmember</s><br />
</span><span style="color: #E31B1B"> <span style="color: #E31B1B"><strong>Sale price: $175.20</strong></span><strong> member / $215.20 nonmember </strong></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 6px;"><span class="black" style="color: #000"><a href="
http://marketplace.wisbar.org/Pages/Product.aspx?cat=WISBAR&pid=AE0067">Books UnBound</a>:<br />
List:<s> $159 member</s> / <s>$199 nonmember</s><br />
</span><span style="color: #E31B1B"> <span style="color: #E31B1B"><strong>Sale price: $127.20</strong></span><strong> member / $159.20 nonmember </strong></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 6px;">To claim your discount, use priority code <strong>B4837BB</strong> when ordering online or mention it when calling (800) 728-7788.*</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong>Reminder:</strong> Anyone who is eligible to vote in the Government Lawyers, Nonresident Lawyers, and Young Lawyers Divisions electronic elections should have received their ballots via email on April 10, 2017. The email came from State Bar of Wisconsin Division Election Coordinator, <a href="
mailto:noreply@directvote.net">noreply@directvote.net</a>.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px;">Please contact the appropriate State Bar Liaison if you did not receive a ballot:</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 7px;">"Never be afraid to ask for direction on how to practice law more effectively. Everyone is afraid to look foolish, but the practice of law is a collaborative endeavour. You don’t get to practice law by yourself." </p>
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- <strong>Eugene C. Blackard</strong> </p>
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<h3 style="color: #045394; margin-bottom: 7px;">Dazed and Confused:<br /> Cannabis Regulations</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px;"><img src="
http://images.wisbar.org/Images/DigestEmails/Cann_Leaf_125w.jpg" alt="" width="103" height="108" align="right"/>The legal landscape for marijuana possession and use, both for medicinal and recreational purposes, is changing across the country and in Wisconsin. On Monday, Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill allowing physicians and pharmacies to dispense CBD oil, a cannabis compound, for prescription use. With federal and state laws that concern cannabis products varying significantly, the application of these and intersecting laws is a bit hazy.
</p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10px;">To help clear the air this <a href="
http://time.com/4292844/420-april-20-marijuana-pot-holiday-history/">420</a>, check out these resources:</p>
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<li><strong>On the use of federal trademarks for cannabis products</strong> - <a href="
http://www.wisbar.org/NewsPublications/WisconsinLawyer/Pages/Article.aspx?Volume=90&Issue=4&ArticleID=25526">The Unattainable High of the Marijuana Industry</a>, Danielle Scott Grant-Keane, <em>Wisconsin Lawyer</em>™ magazine </li>
<li><strong>On the application of OWI laws when marijuana use is suspected</strong> - <a href="
http://marketplace.wisbar.org/Pages/Product.aspx?category=&cat=&pid=CA2392D">Up in Smoke: Driving Under the Influence of Marijuana</a> (2015), PINNACLE CLE OnDemand</li></ul>
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<h3 style="color: #045394; margin-bottom: 7px;">Staff Training Tools Polish Professionalism</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 6px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:8pt;">MKT450E </span></p>
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