want to learn some yoga? go to law school.

[julie anne ines]

As a certain Muppet with mad Jedi skills once said, “Fear is the path to the Dark Side.” Apparently, law school is too.

According to Katie Mulvaney of The Providence Journal, lawyers “often take a front-row seat to the dark side of society. They see divorces, crime, families divided over estates. It can make for a taxing life that leads to stress, substance abuse and cynicism.”

But one class at the Roger Williams University School of Law in Bristol, R.I., aims to bring some balance back to the profession.

David M. Zlotnick, the school’s dean of academic affairs, has designed a class that “incorporates the practice of being mindful, or fully aware, into trial work,” Mulvaney wrote.

And just how does the class do that?

By bringing in actors and yoga instructors to teach students meditation and relaxation techniques that they can use in the courtroom. The ultimate goal of the class is to teach future lawyers to see their clients and fellow law Jedi as more than objects to extract information out of and to crush mercilessly in the courtroom.

Zlotnick says:

“I want (my students) to be able to be trial lawyers in a way where they are more compassionate to themselves and others.”

In other words, he puts back what law school takes out. 

Read the article in its entirety here.

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