Whether they’re rummaging for motion templates, extracting key facts from a complaint, or drafting case assessments for a client, many litigation attorneys find themselves processing the law rather than practicing it. How, then, can these attorneys return to litigation—to tackling, in a people-focused manner, the complex legal issues affecting their clients?

I knew something was wrong when I was sitting in court waiting for a hearing to start and noticed that my right hand was tapping reflexively on the counsel table. I had experienced these tremors after I had returned from deployment in Iraq but dismissed them as the usual signs of stress and fatigue, just like the hyper-vigilance and nightmares. But the tremors got worse…