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Jay Harrington | Perfectionism is great for legal work product, but it’s a major bottleneck for business development. Learn why lawyers must adopt a bias toward imperfect action to successfully scale their practices.

For a profession that runs on cognitive performance, creative rest isn’t optional. It’s strategy. Karen Skinner explains what that looks like for busy lawyers.

Jay Harrington | When building a practice, don’t try to serve everyone. Focus on serving someone. Others will follow.

Megan Zavieh | Non-engagement letters are exactly what they sound like: the opposite of an engagement letter. 

Analog Attorney: Doodling may be the very last activity you'd look to for improving your productivity, uncorking your creative genius and deepening your listening skills. But stay with me. There’s science. There’s history. There are famous ...

Page breaks have their uses, but only section breaks let you change section formatting part way through your Word doc.

Tech Tips: Ben Schorr has three quick tips to help make Microsoft Word work better for you, especially on long documents.

Ernie Svenson: In my “80/20 Principle” world, you don’t need a bigger hammer — you need the right one. Google’s NotebookLM is that small hammer: a focused tool that helps you make sense of messy, multi-document matters without wandering off into ...

Attorneys are under pressure to deliver deals faster, minimize errors and provide more value, all while managing the stress of an increasingly complex work life. It's a tall order but it doesn't have to be overwhelming.

Karen and David Skinner's checklist building a healthy law referral network that falls within your law practice's "power zone."