Eric Fox is an Industrial and Organizational Psychology expert and the current Director of People Analytics at Hire an Esquire. Hire an Esquire is the modern approach to legal staffing, connecting law firms and legal departments to the best legal talent for their projects.
Eric returns on this week’s Evolve the Law Podcast with Host Ian Connett (@QuantumJurist) to reveal the most important personality indicators of lawyer success. Listen in and learn vital psychological knowledge for lawyers, including how to predict optimal performance on legal tasks and the one trait that might be keeping you from a higher salary.
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Show Notes
- How do we build a better lawyer? Peeling back the lawyer brain onion with Eric Fox.
- Eric’s background in Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
- Seeing statistics and theory as a mix of art and science.
- Predicting social behavior to a reliable degree.
- On the “boosted ego” of lawyers.
- The importance of the trait of agreeableness.
- The “Big 5” factor analysis of personality traits and the connection to everyday language.
- On “conscientiousness” and “resilience.” How to evaluate these important lawyer traits.
- Brain plasticity and if our best traits are based on nature or nurture.
- Why too much of a good trait can be a bad thing.
- Why agreeableness might lead you to a lower salary.
- How Hire an Esquire is using psychometric data to improve client results and the overall legal system.
- Predicting performance. Saving money.
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