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Frank Loomis III JD
Frank Loomis III Quick Facts
Main Areas: People SkillsCareer Focus: Author, Trial Attorney, Appellate Attorney
Affiliation: State Bar of Texas, U.S. Supreme Court Bar
Attorney Loomis is an ex-corporate executive and a semi-retired trial and appellate lawyer.
He has been a member of the state bars of Michigan and Indiana, and currently is licensed in Texas. Also, he is privileged and honored to be a member of the bar of the most revered court in the world, the United States Supreme Court.
His legal experience runs the gamut from civil and murder trials to appeals or petitions to the Michigan Supreme Court, Indiana Supreme Court, Texas Supreme Court, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
And in the business world, he has spent some twenty-nine years running three corporations. In doing so, he has had to interrelate with all kinds of people.
As to his education, he attended Northwestern University and received his juris doctorate from the University of Notre Dame.
But his wisdom about interrelating with people is not based on academic considerations. Rather it stems from years of dealing with persons in business, legal, and family worlds.
Thus, he doesn´t write and teach like he´s in front of a blackboard lecturing about complex theories. That´s the approach that many writers take in this area. Often their backgrounds are limited to classrooms or consultation rooms. As a result, their works are technical-mumbo jumbo in stilted language that bores readers. That makes it hard to even finish such books, much less benefit from them.
In contrast, Loomis writes in a way that you don´t have to be an academic to understand. He pens in a conversational way, as if he´s talking to you in your kitchen while munching cookies and sipping tea. The things he suggests are practical, easy to grasp, and apply.
And he is eminently qualified to help people. This is because his expertise is the best type of all, practical experience in dealing with thousands of persons. He has learned the hard way, by trial and error, making mistakes and paying the consequences.
His special knowledge evolves from his relations with the many employees and co-workers with whom he has been associated. And he was in sales for many years. In one year, he was number one out of 1,500 salespersons. Also, his people skills stem from his contacts with clients, jurors, judges, attorneys, witnesses, legislators, business associates, and the seven chidren has raised.
In sum, his vast background in real world settings has given him a grass-roots view of the importance of people skills in dealing with others.
Again, his teachings are not abstract theories learned from textbooks. Rather, they are real-world suggestions applicable to everyday situations. They can help anyone, regardless of educational level.
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Frank Loomis III
Underpinning Loomis´people skills expertise is a principle he has learned the hard way: As incredible at first blush it seems, before you can get people to like you, you first have to make them like themselves.
So, no matter how well you treat people or how personable you are, they won´t like you, if somehow, even innocently, you lower their self-esteem or make them feel bad about themselves.
And that realization motivated Loomis to coin two terms,¨MakeFeelGoods¨and¨MakeFeelBads¨that he uses in the two books he has written on people skills. He tells readers the obvious: They should deal people as many of the first and few of the second as possible.
In other words, his bottom line is: Try to always leave the persons who are part of your life, or that you encounteer, feeling good about themselves after their contacts with you.
