meetings

Run Meetings Like Google

February 17, 2010

Intra-office meetings are notoriously considered tedious exercises in futility, drags on productivity, and generally annoying. If you are fortunate enough to have input on how meetings are run at your firm, suggest running the next meeting like Google.

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Buffers in Your Schedule Make Life Easier

February 13, 2010

The worst days are the ones where you run around like a madman, going from one meeting to another with no breaks. Although it may look nice on your calendar to have no “empty spaces” in between events, buffers can help make life a lot less stressful.

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Scheduling Made Simple

November 30, 2009

Whether you are scheduling an appointment with a client, a networking group meeting, a trial strategy conference with an associate, or a weekly review with your assistant, the combination of schedule changes, telephone tag, and endless emails makes scheduling any meeting almost impossible. More time is wasted scheduling most meetings than is actually spent in [...]

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Affordable Online Meetings

November 4, 2009

GoToMeeting is an intriguing, relatively cheap way to conduct online meetings. The service allows users to do more than just conduct online videoconferences, users can see the moderator’s computer screen. The moderator can also allow other users to control their computer, making the online meeting more interactive than just a video conference.

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Use Client Meetings to Increase Productivity

October 21, 2009

Meetings are getting a bad rap these days, but I find them very useful to help me complete a project, especially when it has no clear deadline. Those kinds of tasks can end up sitting on your work plan for weeks, since they are always lower priority than the things due right now. But you [...]

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TimeBridge simplifies scheduling meetings

January 9, 2008

One of the biggest pains about managing a law practice is scheduling meeting, conferences, and other get-togethers with clients, opposing parties and attorneys, etc., all of whom have crowded calendars. TimeBridge goes a long way toward simplifying the process of setting meetings. Here’s how it works: pick a few possible meeting times, and enter the [...]

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