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The Wake Up Call for Lawyers

Mindfulness for the Legal Mind: a 10-minute talk plus 10 minutes of guided meditation. A brief refuge. The musings of a long-time lawyer, law professor, and mindfulness geek on lawyering from a mindful perspective. Tools to cultivate more joy, ease, and wellbeing in this crazy profession. Ideas to become even better at what you do, and save the world. A few minutes of peace every week, which you definitely deserve.

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18:22

Knowing our Fate, How Can We Quarrel?

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2026/04/03

I can take a stand on just about anything. It’s not just that I’m trained to argue. It’s also that as a human, I have preferences. And they don’t necessarily match what the world offers up. So I’m as guilty of quarreling as the next person. As guilty of holding fast to my position, wanting to be right, wanting to win, as anyone. Until I remember my fate. Which is the same as yours. Which is the same as everyone’s. Which is to be here, but just for a minute. When I remember t...

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20:06

The Problem with Blame

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2026/03/27

The problem with blame is that it cuts into the heart. When I blame someone, I can feel it like a knife, cutting me as much as it cuts them. Blame sets the scene for conflict, and there’s already so much conflict. But when thoughts of blame arise, I also notice that it’s also possible to let them go. And when I remember to do that, it’s possible to see underneath, and to realize that these thoughts only arise because of how much I care. I blame my partner or a friend or one of the kids,...

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20:19

The Power of Our State of Mind

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2026/03/20

Sometimes I don’t realize how powerful my state of mind is. I walk into the house or a meeting with something “on my mind,” and whatever that is, constructs my experience. I have no inherent animosity towards the person in the room, but because of a recent, frustrating, call, for example, frustration infuses the next conversation and can even become its whole form. If I’m someone with long-term, unskillful, habits of mind (and maybe we all are to a certain extent), those unskillful habits can...

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19:46

The Poetry of Mindfulness

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2026/03/13

I love mindfulness, partly for its promise of liberation, but also for the ways it helps me on a very practical level, to navigate through life. The lists and aspirations are a huge support, and a kind of blessing, especially right now. There’s another way to explore mindfulness, though, and that’s through a poetic lens. That lens isn’t more or less supportive, or more or less of a blessing. It’s just a different way of looking. The poetry I’m most interested in is the Dhammapada, a collectio...

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20:03

The Big Topic of Intention

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2026/03/06

Seems like setting an intention to be kind and to not cause harm would be a simple thing. But then look at the world, and all of the devastating consequences that happen even when the responsible person claims their intentions were good. What if we paid attention to intention at the beginning, middle, and end? Meaning, before we spoke or acted, while that was happening, and later? And if we discovered that we’d caused harm, what if we apologized and made amends? It might not be ea...

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20:03

Choosing a Point of View

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2026/02/27

It’s funny the way we toss around our points of view, as if we’re entitled to any which one. Or at least we feel like we are. It’s a free country, right? But wouldn’t it be better if we were more deliberate? And chose a point of view that included caring about everyone, and all the critters, and also the planet? And also took into account that whether or not we adopt a wise, compassionate, point of view, is largely in our hands? And has consequences? Because it does. Our point of ...

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18:55

Lawyering & Wise Livelihood

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2026/02/20

Sometimes I wonder if “wise livelihood” is possible in the law. Can we support ourselves and our organizations and not deal in intoxicants, poisons, weapons, or humans…given the many nuanced interpretations of those words? Including the ways we might, from some perspective we can’t quite see, inadvertently be dealing in one of those ways? And can we ever completely do no harm, in our adversary system? In our divided country? Our impacted world? Maybe. And then I wonder, what if no...

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19:58

Un-clouding the Mind

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2026/02/06

The mind isn’t naturally cloudy. It’s naturally clear and luminous. If you’re in the habit of watching a sunset or looking into the faces of children or elders or the mirror, you probably already know: luminosity is right there, right here. But if you look in the mirror and don’t see your own luminous mind – and heart - they’re all one system – maybe the clouds have rolled in. And in that case, maybe, just for a moment or hour or day or week, clear the sky, and protect your beautiful mind. Ta...

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20:13

Practicing Respect for Everyone

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2026/01/30

There are so many subtle and not-subtle ways to disrespect other people. When I do it, I can feel the boomerang effect of disrespect. It creates a field. I feel like we’re seeing that play out in Minnesota, in Washington, in the world. It’s a terrible thing. There’s only one way I know to be truly respectful: see everyone, including myself, as worthy of my patience, generosity, and love. Listen. Care. When I practice those qualities, I feel positive reverberations. And who knows how far out t...

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19:50

As If There’s Enough

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2026/01/23

I have enough. Sometimes I have to remind myself, but it is a fact. It’s not in question. There’s no world – at least in this moment – where my family goes hungry or sleeps on the street. How about you and yours? There is enough, for everyone, if only we can be generous and compassionate. I feel like that’s also a fact. But sometimes it’s hard for me to remember when so many aren’t getting their share, or any share, right now. How can we remember there is enough, and help make that a reality?...

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20:35

Random Acts of Non-Harming

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2026/01/16

I’m looking around. And it looks to me like there’s just so much harm. Not only our government, but also the ways it’s easy to mimic what’s happening on the national level, even when we don’t mean to: forgetting how much harm we can cause by not offering kindness to everyone (or by forgetting what “everyone” means). What about looking for ways to not cause harm? And every time we see them, not only not causing harm, but doing something kind? Including for ourselves: what about looking for way...

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20:17

How to Talk About…Everything

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2026/01/09

Happy New Year. I wasn’t sad to say goodbye to 2025, but I’d say 2026 isn’t starting off with any fewer challenges. Challenges or no challenges, though, we can set our personal tone. How about 2026 for a tone of kindness? What if we commit to talk, write, and post, one-on-one or to our ten million followers (or 460, in my case), without causing harm, or lying, or being unkind? I don’t know what if – what happens if we do that. But let’s try it. It won’t be too hard because probably most...

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19:41

Make of Yourself a Light

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2025/12/19

Hopefully there will be small moments of peace as we enter the winter solstice in the global north, at the end of a challenging year. It will be dark…but there’s darkness everywhere. And there’s also light. Which is the invitation of mindfulness: to be that light. The question is, how? How to be the light, for others and for ourselves? In the stillness of the solstice - in the silence of the heart - we have the answer. Trust yours. Take things gently as the skies darken, or lighten. Be ...

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20:16

The Possibilities of Concentration

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2025/12/12

Here we are in the heart of the holidays, and there’s also so much else going on. For me it’s crucial not to rely on finding moments of calm, but instead to remember to create them. We all probably do that when we can by settling into the couch with a good cup of whatever. Which is beautiful. But what about also cultivating a state of mind that’s not couch-dependent? One way to do that is with a little concentration. Not the focused, bearing-down type that we use at work, but concentrat...

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20:16

How to Practice, Part II: Courage & Grace

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2025/12/05

If mindfulness begins with training our attention, what’s the recipe for its other components, courage and grace? For me, it begins with stillness. I get quiet and sometimes lovingkindness shows up. But sometimes what appears is a parade of horribles: anger, jealousy, greed, and their buddies. And all I can do is cringe. When that happens and I can stay put, it’s because of courage: that moment of feeling cringy, knowing I’m feeling cringy, and looking anyway. And staying with whatever th...

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18:34

Gratitude, 2025

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2025/11/20

It’s almost Thanksgiving in the U.S. so we’re supposed to be practicing gratitude. want to be doing that all the time, but it doesn’t always work out that way. Do you know what I mean? The world is just in a difficult place, and the trickle-down effect is pretty powerful. But even so, what if we take this one week, and turn it into a practice? And what if the practice was asking the question, over and over, all day long, what can I be grateful for in this person, right now? And in this person...

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20:11

Why Practice?

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2025/11/14

The thing about mindfulness practice is the benefits. I mean, that’s not the only thing - it’s not a benefit-driven endeavor. Hopefully there’s a little altruism mixed in. But the benefits are big. First, there’s the calm that arises when the body is still and the mind is quiet. That’s worth all the effort in the world, and it’s portable, too: I notice I can take it with me into my day, which is good for me, and good for everyone else, too. The other benefit is the insight. Insight into the w...

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19:59

How to Practice

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2025/11/07

Congratulations to Tuesday’s election winners. For me it was a practice moment: feeling joy and hope, and not turning those into something else with regard to the losers. Which is a practice I can’t do without my basic, present moment attention practice. Which always begs the question of how to cultivate that. If mindfulness is present moment attention, courage, and grace, how do we cultivate the first one? It’s simple (and not easy): we give ourselves time for stillness. To me this is ...

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20:21

Mindfulness, Love, Courage, and Grace

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2025/10/31

We know the practice: present moment awareness. But how do we practice when things are so rough and torn? First, with love. The invitation, moment by moment, is, can I bring not only awareness, but also love? Second, with courage. Because no matter how much love we bring, this mind, this body, this world, will present challenges. It’s nothing personal - it’s just the way things work. So, courage. And third, with grace. When I googled grace, I got three things: simple elegance, courteous...

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20:30

The Path, Step Two: Wise Mindfulness

The Wake Up Call for Lawyers ·

2025/10/24

Now that everyone and everything is mindful (except the federal government), is mindfulness diluted? I was starting to wonder so I’m digging into the question, starting with, “What is mindfulness, or ‘wise mindfulness’?” which is the next step on the path. From 10,000 feet, to me mindfulness is looking in and looking up. Looking in, by practicing stillness, examining our fabulous minds and hearts, and then training them to focus and be loving and connect. And it’s also looking in ...

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