I am the queen of lists. At the end of every month, I write a list of goals for the following month. I have a running to-do list for every day. When I get to the office in the morning, the first thing I do is grab a Post-it note and write what I ...
Ruth Carter - April 18, 2016I bet this has happened to you. You show up at the office with the best intentions. You’re finally going to get that marketing project — or some other large project — done so you can reap the rewards. You sit down at your desk. Your voicemail ...
Raj Jha - March 31, 2016A while back, the Wall Street Journal ran an article that posed a critical question worth considering. A CEO of a highly successful company was challenged by a friend to sit still for 15 minutes in complete silence. And he bet him $15,000 that ...
Dustin Cole - March 29, 2016Sponsored. Amicus Attorney, the leading developer of practice management software for lawyers, has announced the launch of Diana Piquette - February 16, 2016
A law practice in chaos is nearly every lawyer's biggest fear. (As if you needed to be told, right?) In the first post in his three-part series "Getting a Grip," Dustin Cole explained how a ...
Dustin Cole - January 14, 2016Upgrading your networking skills is always a good idea, but what about your technology? We asked our legal technology and marketing dream team, “How do you use technology to track and connect with all of those great contacts you’ve ...
Joan Feldman - December 31, 2015Last spring at ABA TECHSHOW 2015, Philippe Doyle Gray presented his method for using Evernote to manage contacts, especially during events. For today’s installment of “Connect the Dots: A Lawyer’s Guide to Networking,” we asked him to ...
Philippe Doyle Gray - December 28, 2015Lawyers typically hate numbers like cats hate water (or Larry Port - December 14, 2015
The difference between a thriving law firm and a law firm that fails can come down to one thing: efficiency. If you cling to old habits and fail to use more efficient methods of managing your practice, you risk sacrificing profits. Here are five ...
Rosemary Kupfert - December 4, 2015Judging by the 50-plus weeks "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" has been on The New York Times best-seller list, Americans have a new fascination with getting organized. By my observation, lawyers as a class are not an organized lot. From ...
Theda C. Snyder - November 16, 2015