TRP 351: Practicing Law at the Speed of Light with Dr. Larry Richard

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Nine out of ten lawyers score in the bottom half of resilience. That’s not an opinion — it’s 32 years of personality data from over 10,000 lawyers. Dr. Larry Richard is the researcher who found it, and he wrote the book on what to do about it.

Dr. Larry Richard holds a J.D. from Penn Law and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Temple University. He’s spent three decades studying lawyer personality and is the author of the new book Thin-Skinned: Why Lawyers Are So Low in Resilience, and the New Science That Can Help. In this episode, he joins Scott Love to break down the seven atypical personality traits that define lawyers — and the evidence-based framework that can help them manage stress, raise resilience, and thrive in a profession that’s changing at unprecedented speed.

What you’ll learn:

The 7 atypical personality traits that make lawyers exceptional at their work — and vulnerable in their lives

Why 90% of lawyers consistently score in the bottom half of resilience — and why that number hasn’t moved in 32 years

Why empathy in lawyers (and people under 40 generally) is declining — and what it’s connected to

What sociability really means — and why lawyers average at the 12.5th percentile

The catastrophizing spiral: how one associate’s mistake became a tent in a park in her mind — and what that reveals about low resilience

Why personality traits are more genetic than social — and the crucial exception: resilience, skepticism, and empathy can actually be changed

The three-legged stool of the brain: how thoughts, feelings, and actions are chemically linked — and how changing one changes all three

Why positive emotions aren’t soft — they chemically neutralize the damage from the negative hormones lawyers produce all day

50+ evidence-based resilience strategies organized into four practical buckets

3 action steps to start building your resilience practice today

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About Dr. Larry Richard: Larry Richard, J.D., Ph.D., is widely recognized as the leading expert on the psychology of lawyer behavior and a trusted authority on improving performance in law firms and legal departments through behavioral science. He works with legal organizations to enhance organizational effectiveness, capitalize on strengths, and bring out the best in their people by applying research-based insights into how lawyers think, behave, and respond to change.

Dr. Richard is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D.) and practiced as a litigator before earning his Ph.D. in Psychology from Temple University. Over the course of his career, he has collected and analyzed personality data on thousands of lawyers and has consulted with hundreds of premier law firms and corporate legal departments on complex behavioral challenges, including building psychological resilience; coaching and developing leaders; managing unprecedented change; developing talent strategy; and fostering lawyer well-being.

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