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Getting Things Done

Getting Things Done: the best parts

May 7, 2009

I read David Allen’s Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity about two years ago. Yes, it is a guru-ish productivity system, but it also helped me, a fundamentally lazy and disorganized person, to become extremely organized and productive.
Lawyers are at their best when they are free to think, and GTD is all about [...]

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Upcoming CLE seminars

May 18, 2008

I am teaching six continuing legal education seminars in the next three months, with a couple more under discussion. My presentations tend to be engaging (I don’t have the patience for boring presentations even when I am giving them), informative, and well-attended. Register early!

June 6th at noon. The Paperless Office, 1 hour webcast, $75. Register [...]

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Simplify your workspace

March 14, 2008

From Unclutterer comes a great post by Zen Habits author Leo Babauta on creating a minimalist workspace. Most of the attorneys I know life among piles of paper. While some defend their “system” of “organization,” most just don’t seem to know how to escape from the paper jungle they created for themselves.
So the first step [...]

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How I get things done

December 24, 2007

I consistently preach the gospel of procedures. Nothing works without good procedures. You can have the most cutting-edge computer, the best software, and the best intentions, but if you do not have solid, tested procedures in place, none of that fancy tech will do you a darn bit of good.
Behind David Allen’s excellent Getting Things [...]

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