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Podcast: Lawyers Weekly Podcast Network
Episode: Being more empathetic as a practitioner
Description: While treating clients with respect is a longstanding expectation, there are a number of factors driving a need to employ greater empathy from lawyers. In this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, host Jerome Doraisamy speaks with Coutts Lawyers & Conveyancers partner and head of injury, compensation and employment law Karena Nicholls about her passion for her practice areas, how she looks after herself given the subject matter, the need to be trauma-informed, and what being empathetic as a legal practitioner means to her. Nicholls also delves into the need for lawyers to be pseudo-psychologists, whether...