Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking

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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].