Improv For Lawyers: How Taking Improv Classes Can Make You A Better Attorney - Above the Law

Improv For Lawyers: How Taking Improv Classes Can Make You A Better Attorney - Above the Law

In 2013, I took two improv classes back-to-back.  For 16 weeks, I learned the basics of improv and participated in two shows for family and friends. Anyone who knew me then wondered what I was doing.  I was about as shy and introverted as they come.  Trying to be funny to a theater of strangers was not on anyone’s bingo card for me. But I was a lawyer, a civil defense trial lawyer, in fact, and I had to overcome my stage fright and fear of publi…