Better management of interpersonal conflict

Lawyers Weekly Podcast Network · Jul 9, 2024 · 23m

While lawyers are adept at navigating conflict on behalf of clients, they are often ill equipped to deal with their interpersonal conflict, says one barrister and solicitor-turned-mediator and executive coach.

In this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, host Jerome Doraisamy speaks with Maria Newport, a "recovering lawyer" now working as a mediator and executive coach, about her journey in the legal profession and what drew her to such work, why discussing lawyers' inability to manage interpersonal conflict is such a critical conversation, whether such capacities have gotten worse since the…