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Anxiety and the Law

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 When it comes to your concerns on anxiety, it may be this emphasis on "clarity" rather than being a human vessel for your client's story that frustrates the anxious lawyer. Mastering anxiety, generally, is a having mastery over one's identity and purpose. Re-invisioning the role of a lawyer, as we have been doing for the last semester with Eben, is step one. I hope this helps.

-- ArleneOrtizLeytte - 04 Jun 2012

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>		If I understand correctly I believe your thesis is that recognizing anxiety and/or uncertainty and becoming comfortable with it will help us to become happier lawyers. I think it might be helpful to have a clear statement of that thesis somewhere in your introduction, so the reader knows where you are going. Additionally I would delete the sentence about the MPC, as I felt it doesn't add much and instead detracts from the nice flow of ideas you had. If this is a correct statement of your thesis then I believe the advice Professor Moglen gave me regarding my first paper might improve your paper as well. I think tightening your arguments and addressing some of the more obvious counterarguments would improve this draft.

Ironically, the reason your thesis makes me a bit uncomfortable is because I am uncertain as to how we future lawyers are supposed to carry this plan out. How are we supposed to master anxiety as law students and lawyers in the future? How do we become comfortable with uncertainty? Should we keep a list of past situation in which we encountered uncertainty and it worked out? Should we try to always keep an hour of each day open so that we become comfortable with having an ‘unplanned’ slot fill our schedule, and anything uncertain that comes up can fill that slot? Should we practice some sort of behavioural therapy when we encounter an uncertain situation (i.e. force ourselves to smile or listen to something that makes us laugh whenever we encounter something uncertain, so that we learn to associate feelings of happiness with uncertainty)?

-- SkylarPolansky - 04 Jun 2012

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