{"id":161990,"date":"2026-08-31T20:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T04:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/31\/left-brain-right-brain-and-reading-precedent\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T20:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T04:59:59","slug":"left-brain-right-brain-and-reading-precedent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/31\/left-brain-right-brain-and-reading-precedent\/","title":{"rendered":"Left Brain, Right Brain, and Reading Precedent"},"content":{"rendered":"

While lawyering is more art than science, science\u2014specifically neuroscience\u2014has something to say about professional development. Its insights into the brain can help lawyers apply precedents more persuasively and, in doing so, gain an edge on the competition.<\/p>\n

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While lawyering is more art than science, science\u2014specifically neuroscience\u2014has something to say about professional development. Its insights into the brain can help lawyers apply precedents more persuasively and, in doing so, gain an edge on the competition.<\/p>\n

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While lawyering is more art than science, science\u2014specifically neuroscience\u2014has something to say about professional development. Its insights into the brain can help lawyers apply precedents more persuasively and, in doing so, gain an edge on the competition. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 While lawyering is more art than science, science\u2014specifically neuroscience\u2014has something to say about professional development. Its insights […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":161991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/legal-news-SSVJEe.jpg?fit=768%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}