Author Archives: David Bilinsky

About David Bilinsky

David J. Bilinsky, BSc, LLB, MBA David J. Bilinsky is a Practice Management Consultant, lawyer and advisor. He is a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management and past Editor-in-Chief of ABA’s Law Practice Magazine. Dave's mission in life is to empower lawyers to anticipate the changes, realize the opportunities, face the challenges and embrace the expanding possibilities of the application of practice management concepts to the practice of law in innovative ways that provide service excellence. Dave is the founder and current Chair of the Pacific Legal Technology Conference and a past Co-Chair of ABA TECHSHOW. Dave's consulting services focus on enhancing law firm practice group profitability, strategic business planning and the application of technology to the practice of law. Dave has been called upon from Shanghai to New York City, from the Yukon to deep in the heart of Argentina by law firms and legal associations to address personal productivity, change management, technology implementation, career satisfaction and leadership development. You can read his blog at: www.thoughtfullaw.com and contact him at [email protected].

Embrace Change

♫ It was the night things changed, can you see it now?
These walls that they put up to hold us back fell down
It’s a revolution, throw your hands

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Get Organized!!

♫ Will remind, will remind, will remind me…♫

Lyrics, music and recorded by Röyksopp.

 

I admit that I have more than a typical fascination with technology.  But this …

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Add a Bit of Complexity to Your Life

♫ Hey Jude, don’t make it bad
Take a sad song and make it better
Remember to let her under your skin
Then you’ll begin to make it better…♫

Lyrics …

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Become a Leadership Incubator

Jack Welch has been often quoted in terms of leadership and management for good reason.

“Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because

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Creating the Team: A Leadership Moment

Do law firms need leadership and teams?  The author would state that at no other time in the past has the legal profession needed leadership as they need it at …

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Take a Vacation!!

We tend to focus on topics of how to increase effectiveness and efficiency in this column as well as how to strive for heightened performance.

This one will be completely …

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Protect Your Data (From Snoops and Others)

 

Prism, the National Security Electronic Surveillance program operated by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) has caught a great deal of press lately.  This surveillance program has …

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Realizing Realization

There are at least two types of realization that comes to play in the financial management of a law firm. In this context we are speaking of Billing Realization and …

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Making That Important Decision…

Sooner or later all of us will be facing a big decision.

Most of us put off making that big decision for a number of reasons…we fear making the wrong …

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Time Management Part Two

In my last post, I dealt with the issue of procrastination as being the first hurdle in terms of task management.  In this second part of the post, we are …

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