Victoria Pynchon over at Settle It Now offers a sneak preview of the next issue of The Complete Lawyer,which focuses on workplace bullies. I’ve commented before on this blog about how much interest there has been in The No Asshole Rule and workplace bullying more generally among lawyers; the first publication to print an excerpt from the book was The American Lawyer, I’ve given "no asshole" talks to several groups of lawyers including the Stanford legal department and the lawyers and clients of Littler Mendelson. I’ve written about law firms that have the rule, as well as an asshole infested law firm, and the troubling times at Holland & Knight (a law firm that had once bragged about its "no jerk rule," but then suffered a deluge of bad publicity about alleged sexual harassment problems).
The articles in this issue include:
Why
Lawyers Are Unhappy… And Make Others Unhappy, Too by Victoria Pynchon,
an attorney and mediator.
How to Spot and Deal with Jerks by Julie Fleming
Brown, author
of the Life
at the Bar blog
Create a Blueprint for a Bullying Free Workplace by Gary Namie, North America’s foremost authority on
Workplace Bullying
Defining and Legislating Bullying by Garry
Mathiason, vice
chair of Littler
Mendelson, and,
according to the National Law Journal, one of the 100 most
influential attorneys in the nation.
Yes, There are Ways to Reform Workplace Jerks by Employment Practices
Specialist Allison
West
The
No Asshole Rule
by Robert
Sutton (This is an
edited and updated excerpt from the book)
There is a lot of
good stuff here; and most of it doesn’t focus on law firms, so if you have
general interest in workplace jerks – the damage they cause, how to manage
them, how to reform them, and the legal implications, this issue provides efficient
“one stop shopping.”
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