Leading in the Law

2 Credit Hours

The practice of law requires strong leadership skill to achieve personal fulfillment, attain professional success, and maintain the highest ethical standards. Increasingly law graduates are expected to know how to lead at the start of their career. This course will introduce and train students on critical leadership competencies necessary for personal fulfillment and professional success in a legal career. The aim of the course is to develop whole-lawyers - lawyers who are equipped with the necessary intellectual and technical skills to succeed and the intra- and interpersonal skills necessary to lead, and reaching high levels of happiness in their legal career. While the course will introduce popular leadership theories, such as Authentic Leadership and Resonant Leadership, the course is grounded in Emotional Intelligence (EI), which has been found to account for more of the variance in successful leadership than IQ and technical legal skills.