Publications

Recommencing in 2025, this subject is a road map to understanding the complexities and motivations of individuals and teams, and how to lead them to success.

Bob and Alicia join Law Chat host Simon Tupman for a far ranging discussion on the future of law, culture and mental health in law firms, diversity and gender and why we're all so stressed these days.

What happens when a sleepy, elderly, deaf cat arrives unannounced in the office? A real cat and real research.

How do we stay relevant and successful in times of massive change? Innovative solutions can be found by habitually challenging assumptions. Curiosity not only binds you to clients, colleagues, bosses and potential employers as a trusted tribe member, it’s also the strongest aspect of developing team cohesion. Habitually asking the important questions could be your most important contribution in group meetings as well as one-to-ones.

Leaders often ask me if there is one thing that would make the most difference in creating resilience and adaptation for their people, themselves and often their families in these trying times. The answer is fairly simple, but, sadly, often refuted or resisted. It is what my partner Bob and I call “potent praise,” which affirms people for not only what they achieve but also how they do it and who they are. Are you getting—and giving—the kind of praise that energises and empowers?

Will we work from home all the time? Part of the time? Will anyone come back to the office? Unfortunately, we aren’t asking the right questions.

There are a lot of things to be angry about. Is there a way out? Is there a future which is not filled with anger and resentment? Nobody can know for sure, but there are some hopeful saplings growing in the petrified forest.

Everyone in today’s uprooted world needs to find areas of their lives in which they can take charge and which will give them a sense of empowerment and enhance their sense of safety. Even for those who seem most secure, taking functional (i.e. not manipulative) control of your relationships is imperative.

In this episode of The Wellness Daily Show, clinical psychologists Dr Bob Murray and Dr Alicia Fortinberry discuss how our modern obsession with technology is changing the way our brains work.

Thankfully, more and more people are acknowledging the association between lack of safe, fulfilling relationships and our social and health issues.

Lawyers’ wellbeing statistics are not a good read and scientists are still piecing together the reasons why this should be so, explains Dr Bob Murray

Experience is the most valuable asset law firms own, and that shouldn’t be forgotten, argues Dr Bob Murray

Lawyers are among the most stressed professions, but there are some simple steps they can take to mitigate the damage and restore some life-saving equilibrium.

Being curious and finding commonality with clients and colleagues are key to a committed relationship built around certainty, autonomy, trust and status, says Dr Alicia Fortinberry

Dr Bob Murray considers why some senior lawyers wear ‘a**hole cloaks’ to treat their co-workers badly and how such behaviour can be prevented

At a recent leadership program I was struck by the common thread of helplessness, isolation and fear from top to bottom, which had not been there to anything like that extent the year before, writes Fortinberry Murray’s Dr Alicia Fortinberry.

The whole basis of the laws we are governed under is probably false, because it is based on assumptions made some time, hundreds of years ago about humans, about the way we think and the way we operate.

The science behind building client loyalty to a firm is one worth exploring, writes Bob Murray.

I believe that the law, and society in general, have got quite the wrong idea of what ethics and ethical conduct are all about and I’m on a kind of mission to correct some widely-held but mistaken assumptions.