Managing a Law Firm

Sometimes your personal life takes priority and distracts you from work. Without good systems in place, distracted lawyering may lead to a professional crash.

Cast aside the mundane law firm event and spare your clients another evening of cheese squares and chardonnay.

Five suggestions from Paul Burton to help you stay focused and make the most of your time today.

In this timely new book, Amy Timmer and Matthew Cristiano describe how episodic "60-minute" mentoring works — and you can use it to become a better law student, lawyer and colleague.

Ida Abbott | Why don't more men sponsor women? As partners and leaders, men have accepted the responsibility to develop all the best talent — but they are losing the female half of that talent pool.

In Part One of his series on productivity in the modern global workplace, Paul Burton shares six strategies for leveraging distributed work environments.

HIPPA? HiPAA? HIPPO? Simple steps for teaching autocorrect settings to catch your most common spelling mistakes — and save you time.

You may be good, but you’re not unique. So how do you compete? Find a better market focus — a definable group that you have some honest connection and affinity with.

Sponsored | Watch the on-demand webinar "7 Time Management Tools for Legal Professionals," presented by Cynthia Sharp.

How do you staff up during big cases and busy seasons and avoid ethics issues? Five ethics rules of engagement when outsourcing legal work.