Nurturing your limbic brain can bring your emotional life and rational life into balance and help heal your pain.  As a coach and counselor dealing with attorney burnout, I became fascinated with the neurobiology of our brains and why it matters. I came by this interest honestly after I burned out in 2004 and quit practicing law. The science of the brain has made incredible advances since then. We now have a much better understanding of why our minds work the way they do — including why some people thrive in challenging environments and others burn out. How the Reptilian Brain, Limbic Brain and Rational Mind Work Together What we know now is that we have three distinct brain systems housed within our skulls. The first sits atop the spinal column and is popularly known as the primal (or reptilian) brain. This controls our basic functions such as reflex and autonomic bodily functions such as breathing and heartbeat. It also regulates reproduction, survival, and fear.The second is known as the limbic brain which sits on top of the reptilian brain and processes emotions and feelings as well as regulates memories. Some believe that this is the seat of the subconscious mind. There is some debate over where the subconscious mind is located, however. I believe that it depends on the function being regulated. The third is the rational mind — the neocortex, which controls thinking, ideas and language. It filters information that will be recorded in the limbic brain and interprets that information as memory. How we think about the world colors our memories. While each of these three is distinct and has separate functions, there is a great deal of overlap and integration. Our baser emotions such as fear, anger, lust, guilt, and shame can be overridden by the neocortex. Conversely, rational thought

Ahlawat & Associates’ Corporate Team (“A&A”) has advised Digivriddhi Technologies Private Limited (hereinafter referred to as the “Company”), on its Pre-Series A Investment round wherein the investment was undertaken by IE Venture Fund I (“Investor 1”) and Omnivore Partners India Fund 2 (“Investor 2”). The deal value of the Pre-Series A Investment round amounted to USD 3.1 Million. The Company, with its registered office in Bangalore, Karnataka, is a fintech company and is engaged in the business of facilitating neo-banking services to dairy farmers located in the states of Gujarat, Karnataka, and Maharashtra. The deal marks A&A’s latest advisory work relating to advising and rendering its opinion to a fintech company that specifically focuses on channelizing the dairy sector, an unorganized sector, in our country. Managing Partner, Mr. Uday Singh Ahlawat led the deal from the A&A team with support from Senior Associate, Ms. Disha Toshniwal; Associate, Ms. Shramona Sarkar; and Associate, Mr. Sarthak Chawla. “A big heartfelt thanks to the entire team of A&A for assisting us in closing this round of investment for the Company. It was a pleasure working with them. The sharp analytical skills portrayed by Disha, and her team helped us in traversing through and understanding the complex structures of the transaction documents and the team was always available to guide us throughout the transaction.” Mr. Ragavan Venkatesan, Founder of the Company, commented. The post A&A team advises Digivriddhi Technologies Private Limited in raising its Pre-Series A Investment round appeared first on LexForti . Did you miss our previous article… https://www.itcse.org/?p=581 Randy Reidwww.itcse.org

These book writing tips from an editor will help you get clear on your goals and strategy for being a published author. Writing a book can be time-consuming, but it also can be rewarding — both personally and financially. Books are a great marketing tool and can have a great return on investment. They tend to open new avenues, primarily by attracting new clientele. A long-time client author has seen a return on his investment every year by more than 300% from having attracted clientele willing to invest long-term in his firm’s services. Other authors have written books to start side hustles or share decades of wisdom in a memoir. Whatever your reason, here are book writing tips for getting started on penning that tome. Five Book Writing Tips 1. Know what message you want to convey and to whom Most authors make the mistake of writing to suit everyone. The truth is when you are writing for everyone, you are writing for no one. Being too inclusive in your writing can dilute your message. When you have a specific audience in mind, you can tailor your content to that audience. For example, you may write a book with a primary audience of pre-law students, law students and new lawyers. The key is to know who your primary audience is and to focus your efforts on attracting them to your book. But writing to satisfy a specific audience doesn’t mean you won’t attract others. Another or secondary audience might find the book helpful, such as readers with an interest in politics, history and law. Ask yourself these questions: Who are the people you are trying to help?What do you want your book to do for your reader?How should your reader feel after reading it — inspired, confident, renewed, empowered, enlightened?Should

Author: Noyonika Nair is a graduate from NLU Jodhpur. She specialises in Corporate Laws. She had worked with Khaitan & Co, Mumbai in the past. The concept of ‘fit and proper’ in corporate laws are just as alluding as the qualifying authority of ‘reasonableness’ in constitutional and administrative laws. The phrase ‘fit and proper’ as an epithet has been employed across commercial laws to provide regulatory oversight and assessment criteria for evaluating inter alia directors and key managerial personnel to ensure that such persons are capable to run the company. In India this criterion has been an object of proliferate use by regulatory authorities like Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). The key idea behind such criteria application is to increase corporate governance standards, and thereby investor protection and economy preservation. One of the key regulations of SEBI which deploy this criterion are Securities and Exchange Board of India (Intermediaries) Regulations 2021 (Intermediaries Regulation). This regulation aims to governs all middlemen in the capital market. Recently, SEBI issued a notification amending the vide Securities and Exchange Board of India (Intermediaries) (Third Amendment) Regulations 2021 (“Notification”). The Notification is effective from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette. Key Changes Key changes introduced to the Intermediaries Regulations are as follows: Application of ‘fit and proper person’ criteria:The ‘fit and proper person’ criteria shall apply to the applicant or the intermediary, principal officer, directors or managing partner, compliance officer and key managerial persons, promoter or persons holding controlling interest or persons exercising control over the applicant or intermediary, directly or indirectly.Principle based criteria for determining a ‘fit and proper person’:In addition to principle based criteria of integrity, reputation, character, absence of convictions/ restraint orders, the Notification has added additional criteria of honesty, ethical

Cyber Monday 2021 is coming up fast. I’ve thought long and hard about the annual edition of Analog Attorney’s Cyber Monday gift guide. So, because I want you to take full advantage of this insane sale day, this year’s guide highlights an Analog Attorney favorite: Levenger. Levenger’s Cyber Monday 2021 Sale Is Storewide My unnatural love for all things Baron Fig is only eclipsed by my even greater love for all things Levenger. Levenger was my first analog crush and I’m still in love with them. If you’ve never heard of Levenger products, just head on over to their store and try not to lose your mind at the sheer magnitude of hyper-luxurious analog treasures. If you’re in a hurry, I’ve picked a list of the tools that make Levenger great and will make your work-at-home experience and home office setup wonderful. Notecard Bleachers Are My Cyber Monday 2021 Deal of Choice This was my first gasp of true love at Levenger. They just get me. I’m a professed index-card kind of guy. I use them for a billion different things, including my external brain. But someone at Levenger reached deep into my analog mind and pried out the thing I didn’t know I needed: an index card bleacher set. Just imagine the sheer kicking of ass you can perform when your note cards are standing at attention in the corner of your desk. 30% off, no minimum, [Code: WISHES] valid 11/12 – 12/22 Lev Tech Portable File Tote, Oh My God Hybrid attorneys lug a lot of loads between their office office and their home office. This can get fairly ridiculous fairly quickly, as that one file folder you shove into your laptop bag turns into a bank box stuffed to explosion. Plus, that banker’s box doesn’t match your

Question: I feel like I did all I could over the last few years to keep my cell number out of clients’ hands. But I think I opened the floodgates when I recently began allowing clients to text me. The convenience factor and desire to modernize my customer service won out, or at least that’s what I told myself. Now that I’ve opened the door to another channel of communication, what ethics pitfalls might come from texting clients? Answer: In previous articles, I’ve focused on ways to successfully use email — “the grand champion of modern-day communication” – as well as try to get lawyers to ditch email for more secure client engagement (read: client portals). But I’m glad to see the topic of text messaging come up. It’s an important reminder of how we can apply the same ethics rules to novel techniques of delivering legal services. In other words, the rules don’t change, just how we apply them. Let’s dig in! Just as I’ve asserted that secure client portals should replace email communication with clients, text messaging should follow the same logical progression for how we engage with clients and store information on attorney-client matters. So, just as you’d take a call from a client on your mobile device, you may likewise fire off an email, text message or instant message. However, while they may offer convenience, are we sacrificing security and embracing potential ethical pitfalls with what may be sensitive information? Four Ethics Considerations for Lawyers Texting Clients Here are four considerations for lawyers to keep in mind when texting messaging with clients: Customer serviceConfidentialityCommunicationDocumentation 1. Customer Service While you’ve asked specifically about texting or SMS communications, many clients use and prefer various electronic communication tools other than email. These can include instant messaging services like Facebook

Do you read books? Of course you do. Maybe you like to escape into James Patterson’s latest thriller or load a beach read into your smartphone for those precious few minutes of downtime. Many lawyers anticipate extended time for leisure reading during travel or while on vacation. Getting Smarter With Nonfiction Leisure Reading Perhaps you read books to improve your lawyering skills. These could be procedural books about topics like negotiation or books about substantive issues that affect your clients. Nonfiction is not a synonym for boring. “Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment” by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass R. Sunstein explains why judges are unpredictable. “The Power of Moments” by Chip Heath and Dan Heath teaches the persuasive importance of story-telling, whether talking to your client, a jury or a CLE audience. Do you handle employment cases, or maybe you’re intrigued by the regular news stories about the treatment of employees in meatpacking plants and Amazon warehouses? The classic “Nickel and Dimed” by Barbara Ehrenreich can provide insight. A search for books about banking regulation referenced “Illicit Financial Flows & Worldwide Money Laundering Practices: White Collar Crimes in 2021” by K.M. Cook. A search for books about environmental regulation brought up “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate” by Naomi Klein as well as “False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet” by Bjorn Lomborg. Finding books like these can open a window into views you might not otherwise see. What’s That Got to Do With Marketing? Like you, your clients are busy. Unlike you, their reading habits may not uncover books that could provide legal insight for their business or personal life. Moreover, they probably lack the ability to connect the legal dots. They need you to

Is your firm producing the kind of marketing content clients and prospects want to read? If I had a dollar for every panel discussion where a GC admitted to ignoring an important client alert after reading the first or the second one in their inbox, I’d be a very wealthy woman. They’re Called ‘Client Alerts’ for a Reason Having worked in-house at several law firms and as a consultant, I know how long it takes to get a client alert or blog post from concept to first draft, formatting and distribution. Yet, despite legal marketing surveys that show this to be true year after year, very few firms manage to get it right. Client alerts and blog posts should be informative and of particular interest to your firm’s clients. Like a present that arrives days after the recipient’s birthday, the client alert’s impact is greatly diminished if it’s too late or never opened. Improving Your Marketing Content: Tips for Lawyers and Law Firm Marketers So, what’s a lawyer or legal marketer to do? Here are some suggestions to help improve your firm’s content. For Marketers: What’s the difference between a good email subject line and one that gets ignored? Whether you’re emailing the perfect thought-leadership piece or client alert intended for your firm’s clients, you have mere seconds to grab their attention. Marketing pros recommend 50 characters or less in your subject line, but if you’re the marketer, you know that’s not gonna fly with your lawyers. Marketers know that the firm’s clients are too busy to read everything that lands in their inbox, so you need to stand out and get to the point! Start with a compelling subject line. Think “more interesting than boring,” and definitely not “click-bait.” I hope you’ll remember these tips the next time you’re

How to maximize productive time and ensure those contacting you get a responsive, personal experience? Virtual receptionists and live chat. A typical attorney captures as little as 2.5 billable hours per day. While some non-billable time is spent on administrative work, marketing, and business development efforts, large chunks are lost to unexpected phone calls and other distractions. In fact, it takes an average of 23 minutes and 15 seconds to regain focus after every disruption. That time adds up. If you charge $350 per hour, for instance, five calls in one day could cost you $678 in missed revenue. How do you maximize productive time while ensuring everyone who contacts your firm receives the responsive, personal experience they expect? The answer lies in virtual receptionists and live chat. Virtual Receptionists Virtual receptionists work remotely, offering callers the opportunity to connect with a real, live person who represents your firm. Unlike automated phone systems, virtual receptionists delight callers and clients while performing the same tasks as an in-house hire at a fraction of the cost. You can choose to forward your calls to virtual receptionists full-time or part-time, or as backup: Full-time answering is perfect for attorneys who prefer to respond to client calls on their own time. Virtual receptionists answer all your calls live 24/7 or during the hours you set. In addition, you can choose to have calls connected directly to you once they’ve been answered, or have the caller announced so you can decide whether you’d like to take the call, have the receptionist take a message, or send the caller to voicemail.Part-time answering is ideal for attorneys who want to be available for callers sometimes but prefer to block out certain days or times of day to focus on work. With the right virtual receptionist provider, you

Current thinking about marketing holds that a business’s success depends on creating quality marketing content. For example, the Content Marketing Institute preaches that businesses are not selling goods and services; they are selling their content across multiple platforms, which in turn induces people to purchase the actual good or service. Creating Content Well, you may be thinking, that’s fine for a business with a dedicated content creation team. But I’m trying to practice law here. More writing tips from Teddy Snyder Counselors, it’s time for a mind reset. You are regularly creating content in your briefs and memoranda. The trick is to recycle the document you’ve already created into marketing content. Sometimes you can do this right away, though you do need to take the time to camouflage identifying data. Who knows? Maybe your judge will see and be influenced by the persuasive arguments you publish. Other times you will want to wait for the relevant matter to conclude. Even then, respect client confidentiality rules and just plain courtesy. First Quick Recycle: Email Marketing After you have put in the work to create a legal document, edit it for your email marketing newsletter. That entails scrubbing client identifying information and any secret strategies. Make sure your newsletter speaks your client’s language, as in plain English, not legalese. Include definitions of any terms of art. Second Quick Recycle: Blog Post Post that same content to the firm’s blog. Assuming you have not made that blog private, now the world (and Google) can see your content. Third Quick Recycle: Social Media Post links to your newsletter and blog posts on the social media platforms you frequent. Minimally, that’s likely to include LinkedIn for a business-to-business practice and Facebook for a consumer practice. And don’t overlook Twitter. Fourth Quick Recycle: Medium.com You can