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Stress Management for Overwhelmed Lawyers

June 28, 2010

Lawyers who feel overwhelmed by all that needs to be accomplished on a daily basis can become paralyzed and unable to take action. These stress management techniques can help you break out of that paralysis and regain your productivity. Prioritize Focus on the highest value activities and, wherever possible, delegate or eliminate anything else. As [...]

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Producteev: Task and Project Management Software Works with You

June 4, 2010

Good task and project management software was hard to find a few years ago. Few people got further than Outlook. More recently, productivity has become an obsession of geeks everywhere, and now there is a flock of good task and project management options. But as Randall pointed out, it is easy to spend too much [...]

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Improve Your Practice with an Uncluttered Office

May 19, 2010

With a busy law practice, it is difficult to keep control of the mess. Somehow, all of your ambitions for a clean office go out the window once the phone starts ringing and the files start coming in. Between catalogs, CLE fliers, bar association announcements, junk mail, office memos, trade publications, office supplies, mementos, and [...]

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Answering Your Own Phone May Be Ruining Your Business (and Your Life)

May 12, 2010

Recently on the Lawyerist LAB, there was a whole string of discussion regarding how lawyers answer their phones. As usual when lawyers talk about things like this, I was surprised to hear how many lawyers are answering their phone when they are in the office. I guess I should not be surprised, though, because I used [...]

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Nozbe: Project-Based Task Management

April 1, 2010

My productivity system is a mess. Instead of a single, trusted system, I use a jumbled combination of Gmail, Google Calendar, Remember the Milk, and TeuxDeux. In searching for one app to rule them all, I came across Nozbe. Nozbe is a project-based task manager in the GTD tradition. (The name is a tortured acronym: [...]

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Consolidate Your Online Productivity Tools

March 27, 2010

Guest post by Matthew Landis. Whether you are a law student or practicing attorney, time is a scarce commodity. The hundreds of tasks we are asked to perform each day, often across numerous locations, can seem overwhelming at times. To organize our time, we all have a system in place to manage various tasks. In [...]

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