The Flourishing Lawyer

Professor Heidi K. Brown is a graduate of The University of Virginia School of Law, a law professor at Brooklyn Law School, and a former litigator in the construction industry. Professor Brown is the author of Untangling Fear in Lawyering: A Four-Step Journey Toward Powerful Advocacy (ABA 2019), The Introverted Lawyer: A Seven-Step Journey Toward Authentically Empowered Advocacy (ABA 2017), and a two-volume legal writing book series entitled The Mindful Legal Writer. Professor Brown champions the importance of openly discussing stressors, anxieties, and fears in lawyering, and helping quiet and anxious law students and lawyers become profoundly effective advocates, in their authentic voices. Professor Brown just released her third well-being book entitled, The Flourishing Lawyer: A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Performance and Well-Being. 

Table of Contents:








The Field of Positive Psychology: A Booster Shot for Human Flourishing



Let’s Get to Work Cultivating Our Multiple Dimensions



Awareness Amplifier #1: Crafting Character through Flexing Strengths, Like Muscles



Awareness Amplifier #2: Finding Flow and Getting Gritty



Our Physical Dimension



Our Emotional Dimension



Our Artistic/Creative Dimension



Our Social Dimension



The Dimension of Culture



Our Spiritual Dimension



Our Occupational Dimension



Our Intellectual Dimension



Our Moral/Ethical Dimension



Our “Caring” or Caregiving Dimension


Appendix A: PERMA Well-Being Components Tracker



Appendix B: VIA Character Strengths and Virtues Tracker



Appendix C: Proposed “Flourishing Lawyer Project” Curriculum



Appendix D: Sample “Personalized Well-Being Framework”