In my experience, one of the most persistent sources of interpersonal conflict is the inability to own up to and correct mistakes. Our first impulse may be to conceal an error, or to deny it exists. We may try to shift the fault and blame it on the negligence of others. We may be paralyzed by embarrassment, shame or a sense of personal failure. Or, perhaps, we just don’t know what to do.

Dumb Little Man presents a remarkable story of one lawyer’s workplace error — missing a critical filing deadline, every attorney’s nightmare — and describes the courageous steps she took to make things right in “How to Recover from a (Big) Mistake at Work“. While avoiding mistakes in the first place is important, it’s a mark of character and rare ingenuity to fix one — making her the kind of lawyer I’d want to hire.

Lex Ferenda hosts a special St. Patrick’s Day presentation of Blawg Review, the weekly review of the best in legal blogging.

Lex Ferenda, published by Daithí Mac Síthigh, a graduate researcher in the School of Law in Trinity College Dublin, capably covers cyberlaw — including “Internet governance, intellectual property, and the control of media and information flows across national and regional borders”.

Blawg Review #151 will introduce you to the wit and wisdom of Irish legal bloggers, as well as a delightful assortment of blog posts from elsewhere in the world.

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