Legal Improv - Why Use Improv to Improve Lawyer Skills

THEY improv uses improvisational techniques to assist a variety of industries to enhance their performance. This makes them more effective while presenting their case as well as simply enabling them to improve their personal skills that are so useful throughout the legal process.

For law firms, the concept of using the skills of improv to enhance legal skills is not new. We simply are using proven techniques to aid law firms to improve their skills while meeting their training obligations.

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Legal Improv - MCLE and Other Training Programs for Law Firms

Why Improv Helps Attorney Skills Training Programs

they improvThe same skills that go into an improv performance are used by lawyers every day. Having the ability to think on your feet, to see things from different perspectives, to see and predict human behavior and that ability to move forward without being taken off your game are all skills that benefit attorneys. Improv is a great way to generate and improve these skills to help take an attorney's skills to the next level.

Think On Your Feet. Seldom is there a day that an attorney is not confronted with something that they did not suspect. Whether it is a new piece of evidence, changing testimony, or simply an outlying piece of information that wasn't expected, having the ability to immediately adapt to that changing circumstance and to incorporate the details into a broader narrative can be the key to a successful outcome at trial. Improv skills are exactly that. You are constantly adjusting to changing circumstances and exercising the same muscles that compensate for a shifting landscape of details.

See Things From Different Perspectives. To understand clients, witnesses and others, it is important to be able to understand where they are coming from. Improv skills help with such imaginative substitution and can lead to gaining empathy with a subject. By seeing the person through their own eyes you can engage with them, bond with them, and gain their trust. Improv skills enable such interactions through group mind activities and can help to achieve this level of trust.

See and Predict Human Behavior. Once you have the ability to see things through someone's eyes, you can take this to the next level by understanding their motivations, and thus what directions they may be looking to go. This can lead to predicting their behavior and be able to counteract their actions before they take them.

Build Momentum. While non-improvisers can be put off their game by a surprise, improv develops the skills to remain on a particular target while not ignoring the new information. You learn to fight the urge of curiosity to better serve the scene as it is. It's okay to have a thread that hasn't been pulled as long as the narrative is intact.

Thus Improv. By discussing your needs we can develop an improv program that can help your firm improve their skills. Like a surgeon, we pick the correct tools for the job and go in to excise the problem and then like a physical rehab specialist, we exercise the particular muscles needed for the desired skills.

We understand the need for confidentiality and review all such agreements to ensure a level of secrecy to maintain your relationship with your clients. We will usually not take control of work product and rather not take any material off-location to help ensure our relationships with our clients. Simply ask us for more information about how far we will go to protect our clients.

those THEY have performed forWhether for Appellate, Business, Civil, Constitutional, Criminal, Entertainment, Family (including Trusts, Estates, Divorce, Elder and Juvenile), Intellectual Property, Medical, Military, Securities or Tax Law, or any of the other branches, we either already have a program that can assist practitioners or can develop a special program to improve performance.

Locations. We have people already in most major cities around the country or can make arrangements if needed. This includes the top cities such as New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Orlando, Houston, Austin, Dallas, Seattle, Phoenix, Denver, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Nashville, Atlanta, Charlotte and practically anywhere else you can imagine. We also have access to Canada, Mexico and the islands of the Caribbean if you would like to conduct something while at a retreat. Simply contact us to find out how we can help you.

Contact Us. Contact us by email at info@legalimprov.com or by calling (866) 219-4386.