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Are the attorneys at your firm working harder than ever yet still falling behind? Is everyone feeling stressed with no end in sight?
Do you feel like you need a magic wand to create more hours in the day to keep your legal team on track?
You have the power to turn things around.
Your attorneys don’t need to add more hours to the workday if they learn how to use the ones they have with maximum efficiency. Our Lawyer Time Management Training gives attorneys the tools to become more focused and productive and get their professional and personal lives back in balance. This includes time management strategies that allow for high levels of performance that can be achieved quickly in the short term and sustained over the long term.
Is Your Team Suffering from Poor Time Management?
Sometimes, you know something is wrong but can’t quite define the problem. Unfortunately, it often boils down to poor attorney time management.
Many of the lawyers in your firm may feel so overloaded that they can’t seem to keep up with the things they know they should be getting to. This sensation can nag at the back of their minds all day, adding to the level of stress and further decreasing efficiency.
Often, attorneys get so wrapped up in current case work that they don’t take the steps they need to originate meaningful new business for the firm. Or long-term, high-payoff projects get put off while lawyers address the “crisis” of the moment all day, every day. In addition, staff and attorneys may interrupt each other constantly for assistance with matters they could be handling on their own but cannot because they are hampered by an inefficient organization or deficient communication processes.
The fact is that the practice of law is evolving quickly. Increasingly narrow specializations, high rates of technological change, and a host of other factors are increasing pressure on attorneys, preventing them from accomplishing critical tasks. This, in turn, further amps up the tension and blocks production. It becomes a vicious cycle.
Alleviate the Burdens of Poor Lawyer Time Management
How does poor attorney time management affect daily life in your practice or your team’s practice? Some common problems include:
- Information overload that overwhelms attorneys and staff alike
- Frustration with the technology used to track, manage, and report data
- Meetings that waste time due to poor structure and planning
- Constant interruptions that disrupt thought processes and cause frequent setbacks
- Important communications are overlooked due to the high volumes of emails and other messages
- Friction caused by the ineffective delegation of tasks or inability to access information
- Schedules are booked too heavily or ineffectively
- Use of new software and other tools results in duplicated efforts instead of increased speed
- High achievers take on too many tasks while cautious employees are not assigned tasks that fulfill their potential
- Goals are either too vague or too specific to be useful
- Out-of-office work arrangements are not optimized to provide continuity
- Poor time capture and tardy reporting lead to unnecessary write-downs
Any one of these problems can reduce productivity significantly. If you are struggling with two, three, four, or more–and most firms are, if they are honest–then you’ve got a recipe for frustration and stress.
When your attorneys learn the keys to successful time management for lawyers, these burdens can be transformed into tools that boost productivity. Learn More >
For instance, when attorneys and staff are overloaded with information, it becomes impossible to prioritize tasks. We teach a four-step approach to email management that helps attorneys keep ahead of their inboxes. In addition, we provide strategies to materially reduce productivity-robbing interruptions without alienating clients, colleagues, and staff. We show attorneys how to set effective boundaries for themselves and others that boost client satisfaction and profitability.
Calendar overload or mismanagement leads to frustration and lost work time. Each day can become increasingly difficult as unfinished tasks pile up. Our Six Bucket System and other task management techniques help attorneys organize and prioritize tasks so that scheduling can be completed accurately and efficiently to channel productivity instead of thwarting it.
Often, a technology designed to speed and smooth processes has just the opposite effect. When attorneys and other team members fail to learn how to optimize new technology, they quickly become frustrated. Tasks may go unreported or someone may need to duplicate efforts to bring things up to speed. We offer strategies to help you get the most from your technology now and plan so that future tech implementations don’t put a damper on productivity.
Project leaders find that tasks they assign are not completed or are performed in a manner that doesn’t meet requirements. Team members become irritated when they need to repeat work because instructions were not communicated the first time properly. We provide techniques to improve communication, delegation, and information sharing to increase team efficiency.
Benefits of Effective Time Management for Lawyers
When attorneys manage their time more effectively and efficiently, they can better control the flow of information to spend more time on what matters most so they can meet their core business goals. They understand how to use the company’s tools properly, enabling them to consistently deliver high-quality work. They allocate time in a way that allows them to show up for important meetings with clients or staff on time and be fully prepared. They are able to walk into the office each day knowing that they have matters under control. That makes all the difference.
Can you put a dollar amount on the benefits of effective lawyer time management? We can and do. If a lawyer who attends our specialized training collects just a single additional billable hour each week and works 48 weeks in a given year, billing out at a rate of $400 per hour, that’s an additional $19,200 in revenue generated. At 4775/hr, that’s $37,200 of additional revenue. Now multiply those per-attorney revenue figures by the number of attorneys attending the training.
You get the idea? And what if their increased efficiency enables them to bill out two or more extra hours in a week? – which is absolutely possible.
The investment in lawyer time management training generates a measurable return on investment very quickly. In fact, we have a calculator on our site showing you how much money you can conservatively add to the firm’s top-line revenue with effective time management for lawyers.
Then there are the intangible benefits. When your attorneys accomplish more during the day, they feel more confident and successful. They project that attitude toward clients. They feel less conflicted about going home to enjoy their personal lives. They come in each with a greater sense of control and accomplishment. It’s a cycle again–but a cycle of benefits rather than burdens.
All too often, lawyers buy into the myths about “productivity.” They feel they need to sacrifice their personal lives if they want to be a great lawyer. It’s well known that the entire legal industry sees long hours and overwork as the inescapable price of success.
But the truth is that it is efficiency and effectiveness that increase productivity (and thus profitability) rather than the sheer volume of hours invested. When attorneys are able to establish a new baseline of productivity, they reach higher levels of sustained performance and enjoy enhanced degrees of professional success.
The increased well-being that flows from this achievement affects every aspect of their lives. That’s why our team finds attorney time management training so rewarding. By instructing and coaching lawyers on ways to become more efficient, we help enhance their personal and professional quality of life. It’s a powerful and satisfying motivation for us.
About Our Lawyer Time Management Training
Sign Up for “The 8 Keys to Powerful Productivity” Seminar
How do we achieve consistently positive results from our lawyer time management training? Over the years, we have continually honed our training techniques geared specifically for lawyers so that our seminar participants enjoy lasting benefits. In fact, we are so confident that your attorneys will see the value in our training that we offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee.
Once you enroll, we can schedule the training seminar to fit your busy team’s calendar. Our experienced trainer will virtually interact with your team to allow maximum flexibility.
Your attorneys will be engaged in training for approximately 1.5 to 2 hours and walk away with concrete techniques and tips they can use immediately to increase their efficiency and productivity. You will also receive a recording of the training seminar your attorneys and staff can refer back to at any time.
Seminar registration fees are affordable and tailored to the number of participants. Our prices include self-assessment guides to prepare for training, interactive worksheets, and downloads of our “Time Management Tech Tools Resource Guide.”
We Know What We’re Talking About
Lawyer Time Management is the brainchild of Bill Jawitz, who has been training attorneys and their teams on efficiency techniques for over 20 years. Attorneys who thought they were “too busy” for training routinely approach him after sessions to express their amazement and thanks for the ways he opens possibilities and provides the tools to achieve concrete results. You can read just a few of the testimonials here from attorneys ranging from practice group leaders to managing partners to state bar association CLE directors.
Over the years, Bill has worked with law firms of varying sizes and practice areas, government agencies, bar associations and CLE programs, and in-house legal departments. He continually refines his training program to keep up with technological, business, and policy changes affecting the legal profession. After two decades of serving the legal field, Bill and his team of co-presenters are ready to tackle any and every productive challenge you’re facing.
How the 8 Keys to Powerful Productivity Work
Our lawyer time management training seminars help attorneys, wherever they are in their career) greater professional success and personal satisfaction by focusing on eight key elements that unlock productivity. Your attorneys will learn:
- The psychological principles that block progress and how to build mental muscles and develop routines to facilitate effective time management.
- Task management techniques to recoup precious time throughout the day by organizing priority tasks and reducing mental clutter.
- A ten-minute planning routine that enables attorneys to structure the day so that they are in control rather than simply reacting to developments around them.
- Strategies to motivate the team by providing direction and clarity so that they can solve problems without interruptions and intervention.
- Ways to identify and refine regular work processes to reduce the amount of time necessary to complete each task.
- How to manage email and other messaging platforms to control information input, prevent overload, and avoid missing critical communication.
- Processes for setting workable expectations for collaboration and availability that create effective boundaries to end productivity-stopping interruptions.
- Concepts and techniques to anchor their new learnings and skills into their overall increased well-being.
Call for a Free Consultation to Learn More About the Benefits Lawyer Time Management Training Will Provide for Your Firm
High-stress levels, information overload, constant interruptions, and falling further behind every day. This is a workplace reality at far too many law firms.
You know there has to be a better way. We do too. Our proven Lawyer Time Management Training provides attorneys with the tools they need to take back their productivity and take charge of their lives.
We invite you to contact Bill for a free consultation. Find out how you can start each day confident that essential tasks are on track and under control. Find out why so many others are glad someone made the call on their behalf. Find out what Lawyer Time Management Training can do for your firm.
Be the leader who equips your team for success. You have nothing to lose but an overloaded inbox.
Is Your Team Suffering from Poor Time Management?
Sometimes, you know something is wrong but can’t quite define the problem. It often boils down to poor attorney time management.
Many of the lawyers in your firm may feel so overloaded that they can’t seem to keep up with the things they know they should be getting to. This sensation can nag at the back of their minds all day, adding to the level of stress and further decreasing efficiency.
Often, attorneys get so wrapped up in current case business that they don’t take the steps they need to originate meaningful new business for the firm. Or long-term, high-payoff projects get put off while lawyers address the “crisis” of the moment all day every day. Staff and attorneys may interrupt each other constantly for assistance with matters they could be handling on their own but cannot because they are hampered by inefficient organization or deficient communication processes.
The fact is that the practice of law is evolving quickly. Increasingly narrow specializations, high rates of technological change, and a host of other factors are increasing pressure on attorneys and preventing them from accomplishing critical tasks. This, in turn, further amps up the tension and blocks production. It becomes a vicious cycle.
Alleviate the Burdens of Poor Attorney Time Management
How does poor attorney time management affect daily life in your practice or your team’s practice? Some common problems include:
- Information overload that overwhelms attorneys and staff alike
- Frustration with the technology used to track, manage, and report data
- Meetings that waste time due to poor structure and planning
- Constant interruptions that disrupt thought processes and cause frequent setbacks
- Important communications are overlooked due to the high volumes of email and other messages
- Friction caused by ineffective delegation of tasks or inability to access information
- Schedules are booked too heavily or ineffectively
- Use of new software and other tools results in duplicated efforts instead of increased speed
- High achievers take on too many tasks while cautious employees are not assigned tasks that fulfill their potential
- Goals are either too vague or too specific to be useful
- Out-of-office work arrangements are not optimized to provide continuity
- Poor time capture and tardy reporting lead to unnecessary write-downs
Any one of these problems can reduce productivity significantly. If you are struggling with two, three, four or more–and most firms are, if they are honest–then you’ve got a recipe for frustration and stress.
For instance, when attorneys and staff are overloaded with information, it becomes impossible to prioritize tasks. We teach a four-step approach to email management that helps attorneys keep ahead of their inbox. In addition, we provide strategies to materially reduce productivity-robbing interruptions without alienating clients, colleagues, and staff. We show attorneys how to set effective boundaries for themselves and others that boost client satisfaction and profitability.
Calendar overload or mismanagement leads to frustration and lost work time. Each day can become increasingly difficult as unfinished tasks pile up. Our Six Bucket System and other task management techniques help attorneys organize and prioritize tasks so that scheduling can be completed accurately and efficiently to channel productivity instead of thwarting it.
Often, technology designed to speed and smooth processes has just the opposite effect. When attorneys and other team members fail to learn how to optimize new technology, they quickly become frustrated. Tasks may go unreported or someone may need to duplicate efforts to bring things up to speed. We offer strategies to help you get the most from your technology now and plan so that future tech implementations don’t put a damper on productivity.
Project leaders find that tasks they assign are not completed or are performed in a manner that doesn’t meet requirements. Team members become irritated when they need to repeat work because instructions were not communicated properly the first time. We provide techniques to improve communication, delegation, and information sharing to increase team efficiency.
Benefits of Effective Time Management for Lawyers
When attorneys manage their time more effectively and efficiently, they can better control the flow of information to spend more time on what matters most so they can meet their core business goals. They understand how to use the company’s tools properly, enabling them to consistently deliver high-quality work. They allocate time in a way that allows them to show up for important meetings with clients or staff on time and fully prepared. They are able to walk into the office each day knowing that they have matters under control. That makes all the difference.
Can you put a dollar amount on the benefits of effective attorney time management? We can and do. If a lawyer who attends our specialized training collects just a single additional billable hour each week, and they work 48 weeks in a given year, billing out at a rate of $400 per hour, that’s an additional $19,200 in revenue generated. At 4775/hr, that’s $37,200 of additional revenue. Now multiply those per-attorney revenue figures by the number of attorneys attending the training.
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Find out your ANNUAL ADDITIONAL BILLINGS if your attendees bill just ONE additional hour per week, and they work 48 weeks a year, that’s additional billings of Dollars In Return
CALCULATE YOUR ANNUAL ROI NOWYou get the idea. And what if their increased efficiency enables them to bill two or more extra hours per week? – which is absolutely possible.
The investment in lawyer time management training generates a measurable return on investment very quickly. In fact, we have a calculator on our site showing you how much money you can conservatively add to the firm’s topline revenue with effective time management for lawyers.
Then there are the intangible benefits. When your attorneys accomplish more during the day, they feel more confident and successful. They project that attitude toward clients. They feel less conflicted about going home to enjoy their personal lives. They come in each with a greater sense of control and accomplishment. It’s a cycle again–but a cycle of benefits rather than burdens.
All too often, lawyers buy into the myths about “productivity.” They feel they need to sacrifice their personal lives if they want to be a great lawyer. It’s well known that the entire legal industry sees long hours and overwork as the inescapable price of success.
But the truth is that it is efficiency and effectiveness that increase productivity (and thus profitability), rather than the sheer volume of hours invested. When attorneys are able to establish a new baseline of productivity, they reach higher levels of sustained performance and enjoy enhanced degrees of professional success. The increased well-being that flows from this achievement affects every aspect of their lives. That’s why our team finds attorney time management training so rewarding. By instructing and coaching lawyers on ways to become more efficient, we help enhance their personal and professional quality of life. It’s a powerful and satisfying motivation for us.
About Our Lawyer Time Management Training
Schedule your 8 Keys to Powerful Lawyer Productivity Seminar
How do we achieve consistently positive results from our lawyer time management training? Over the years, we have continually honed our training techniques geared specifically for lawyers so that our seminar participants enjoy lasting benefits. In fact, we are so confident that your attorneys will see the value in our training that we offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee.
Once you enroll, we can schedule the training seminar to fit your busy team’s calendar. Our experienced trainer will virtually interact with your team to allow maximum flexibility.
Your attorneys will be engaged in training for approximately 1.5 to 2 hours and walk away with concrete techniques and tips they can use immediately to increase their efficiency and productivity. You will also receive a recording of the training seminar your attorneys and staff can refer back to at any time.
Seminar registration fees are affordable and tailored to the number of participants. Our prices include self-assessment guides to prepare for training, interactive worksheets, and downloads of our “Time Management Tech Tools Resource Guide.”
CONTACT BILL JAWITZ TO SCHEDULE YOUR SEMINAR NOWWe Know What We’re Talking About
Lawyer Time Management is the brainchild of Bill Jawitz, who has been training attorneys and their teamson efficiency techniques for over 20 years. Attorneys who thought they were “too busy” for training routinely approach him after sessions to express their amazement and thanks for the ways he opens possibilities and provides the tools to achieve concrete results. You can read just a few of the testimonials here from attorneys ranging from practice group leaders, to managing partners, to state bar association CLE directors.
Over the years, Bill has worked with law firms of varying sizes and practice areas, government agencies, bar associations and CLE programs, and in-house legal departments. He continually refines his training program to keep up with technological, business, and policy changes affecting the legal profession. After two decades of serving the legal field, Bill and his team of co-presenters are ready to tackle any and every productive challenge you’re facing.
How the 8 Keys to Powerful Productivity Work
Our lawyer time management training seminars help attorneys, wherever they are in their career) greater professional success and personal satisfaction by focusing on eight key elements that unlock productivity. Your attorneys will learn:
- The psychological principles that block progress and how to build mental muscles and develop routines to facilitate effective time management.
- Task management techniques to recoup precious time throughout the day by organizing priority tasks and reducing mental clutter.
- A ten-minute planning routine that enables attorneys to structure the day so that they are in control rather than simply reacting to developments around them.
- Strategies to motivate the team by providing direction and clarity so that they can solve problems without interruptions and intervention.
- Ways to identify and refine regular work processes to reduce the amount of time necessary to complete each task.
- How to manage email and other messaging platforms to control information input, prevent overload, and avoid missing critical communication.
- Processes for setting workable expectations for collaboration and availability that create effective boundaries to end productivity-stopping interruptions.
- Concepts and techniques to anchor their new learnings and skills into their overall increased well-being.
Call for a Free Consultation to Learn More About the Benefits Lawyer Time Management Training Will Provide for Your Firm
High-stress levels, information overload, constant interruptions, and falling further behind every day. This is workplace reality at far too many law firms.
You know there has to be a better way. We do too. Our proven Lawyer Time Management Training provides attorneys with the tools they need to take back their productivity and take charge of their lives.
We invite you to call Bill for a free consultation. Find out how you can start each day confident that essential tasks are on track and under control. Find out why so many others are glad someone made the call on their behalf. Find out what Lawyer Time Management Training can do for your firm.
Be the leader who equips your team for success. You have nothing to lose but an overloaded inbox.