Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking

This course is aimed to help lawyers identify, analyze, and evaluate arguments and evidence, in order to infer validity or lack thereof, and make compelling counterarguments, decisions and conclusions.

Duration: 2 webinars of 2 hours*

SESSION OUTLINE*

  • How to understand arguments
  • Understanding suppressed premises
  • How to reason deductively
  • Using truth-tables and Venn diagrams to infer truth
  • How to reason inductively (generalizations, by analogy, causal reasoning, and inference to best explanations)
  • Fallacies and how to identify and avoid them
  • Cognitive biases
  • Distinguishing noise from the signal
  • Mental models
  • How to think like a scientist

 

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Lawyers will learn how to apply critical thinking to their work, and empower them to make better decisions and from more compelling conclusions, whether in a courtroom, in a meeting, or behind their monitor.

 

BENEFITS FOR YOUR LAW FIRM

Better decision-making and argument forming ultimately means better outcomes, fueling firm competitiveness and profitability

 

* Course outline and delivery format can be tailored to suit the unique needs of your firm and workforce.

To enroll or for more information, please contact [email protected].