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Law Practice

Feb. 4, 2011

The Power of Listening

Lawyers can enrich their professional relationships by just listening.

Timothy A. Tosta

Arent Fox LLP

Email: tim.tosta@arentfox.com

Recently, I found myself speaking on the issue of "transformative listening." I started speaking on this subject as part of a longer talk entitled "Lessons for the Living," in which I tell of how my work as a public hospital hospice volunteer reshaped not only the way that I practiced law but my way of living life. It has become one of my most requested talks and I have delivered it throughout the state to lawyers, judges, business and real estate executives, government officials as well...

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