Everyone knows you can increase your productivity as an attorney when you delegate tasks effectively. The key word here is effectively – meaning the right tasks in the right volume to the right people and in the right way....
Category: Planning & Scheduling
January 17, 2023
Avoiding the Information Retrieval Time Vortex
Theorists may tell us that time is relative, but as a practicing attorney, you work with a finite amount of time that is very real to both you and your clients. When certain tasks take up more of that time than they should,...
Quick – what words and phrases immediately come to mind when you think about your calendar? See if some of these ring true: cluttered, hard to read, inaccurate, untrustworthy. And what emotional associations...
Do you trust your daily calendar to help you manage your day effectively? Many attorneys don’t. Often there’s just not enough information in the item entry to plan properly. Or they think that crunch-booking will let...
November 16, 2022
Getting Real About Your Time-to-Task Estimates
An extremely common source of stress on the job is largely self-inflicted: the chronic underestimation of how long a task will take. Whether it’s a routine motion you have to draft, a “touch-base” meeting with a partner...