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José Elías del Hierro Gamboa Del Hierro Lawyers
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Saturday, December 19, 2020
The feeling for many of us as lawyers at the end of 2020 can be a lot like having fallen, without warning, into a swimming pool after having circled the edge for about 100 laps. If you feel identified with this, I ask you in the next three minutes to make a vote of confidence in the solution I propose: it is time for lawyers to wear glasses.
Why should lawyers wear glasses?
This 2020 led us as lawyers to feel disoriented, tired, undecided and in anticipation of what 2021 holds for us. This can be due to great achievements, losses, exits and entries of clients, colleagues, loss of loved ones, changes of office, employer or even unemployment. Falling into the water and trying to get out is never easy, especially after having turned around, but I am sure that at the end of 2020 we have been able to put our heads out and observe the environment as if they had put on new glasses.
With them, what used to be seen far away, we have in front, what we saw close, is lost on the horizon. What’s more, now we see new elements and we miss others that have faded. This is essential and therefore as lawyers, in addition to releasing them we must leave them on and act on what we see.
Reaching out implies encountering terms such as digital transformation, quality of life, design, innovation, well-being, strategy, and marketing. This can cause us fear, since from our training we feel comfortable with more familiar terms such as prescription, usucaption or abrogation. 2021 is the year in which we must make a decision: to dive back into the water and let the new glasses float out, or to come out of the water without pause and without hurry and asking good questions.
How to go from glasses to questions?
This little manual to get out of the water in 2021 begins by seeking that today we ask ourselves key questions as lawyers, people and firms. About us? How do we get where we are? Where we come from? What is important to us? What is going to be important to us in 3 years? Where do we want to go?
These initial questions can lead us to others that are a little deeper, such as, for example, Why do I do what I do? Having decided on what is important, What is my role as a lawyer or as a firm at this moment? that my training gave me the necessary tools for this moment? How have I been using my time in the last few months? How would you like to use it?
Asking ourselves these questions is a clear sign that something has changed and our task is then to understand what has changed. To do this, let us recognize that there are things that we do not know and that we need from other disciplines, let us think about our clients’ new jobs, work on our emotional intelligence, act from service and cooperation, develop digital and communication skills and look for ways to innovate. In a simple way.
In this new year we release glasses, that is, let’s open our minds, lose our fear of new concepts and look for a way so that in the same sentence it can be said that an excellent lawyer can practice a sport, be a musician, long for a family, lead a healthy lifestyle and realize many other determinations that we have encountered while in the water.
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