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Run Meetings Like Google

Randall Ryder — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:00:31 +0000

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. Have a set agenda. Address each issue like something on a grocery list and move onto the [...]

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Buffers in Your Schedule Make Life Easier

Randall Ryder — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:00:09 +0000

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. Client meetings I am guilty of trying to [...]

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Scheduling Made Simple

Allison Shields — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:00:09 +0000

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

Randall Ryder — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:00:53 +0000

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. With the click [...]

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Use Client Meetings to Increase Productivity

Sam Glover — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:45:55 +0000

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

Sam Glover — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:06:49 +0000

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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