PROFESSOR ALISON LINTAL PRESENTS ON EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AT CITY OF PHILADELPHIA LAW DEPARTMENT ANNUAL CLE PROGRAM
July 2023 — As part of its annual lawyer training program, Professor Alison Lintal spoke to several hundred lawyers and staff from the City of Philadelphia Law Department about the importance of emotional intelligence in practice. Professor Lintal outlined why lawyers should care about cultivating emotional intelligence from an ethics and professional identity perspective in addition to being necessary for successful client and colleague relationships.
Professor Lintal also discussed how stress and emotional dysregulation can impact lawyers’ emotional intelligence and well-being in the profession. Professional Lintal gave some tools for enhancing emotional intelligence through reflection, feedback and whole body mental health practices. Professor Lintal presented as part of a panel which included Dena Lefkowitz, Author, Business and Career Coach for Lawyers and Courtney Schulnick, Special Counsel at Marshall Dennehey and Mindfulness Teacher. The presentation included experiential practices including a mindful exercise. Professor Lintal is a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher as well as the Chair-Elect of the AALS Balance and Well-Being Section. She regularly incorporates contemplative practices and reflection in her courses at Dickinson Law.
Pictured above (left to right): program moderator Nicole Stokes, Esq., assistant city solicitor, Commercial Law Unit; Penn State Dickinson Law Professor Alison Lintal; co-panelist Dena Lefkowitz, author, Business and Career Coach for Lawyers; co-panelist Courtney Schulnick, special counsel at Marshall Dennehey and mindfulness teacher; and program moderator Jonah Santiago-Pagan, Esq., assistant city solicitor, Civil Rights Unit, Philadelphia, PA.
Alison F. Lintal is Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Penn State Dickinson Law, as well as the Externship Program Director. Her research interests include affordable housing and community development with a particular interest on rural communities. Before joining Dickinson Law, she served as an Attorney-Advisor for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development where she focused her practiced on multifamily housing transactions. A Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher, Professor Lintal is also involved in the well-being in law movement.