Author Archives: David Bilinsky & Laura Calloway
Have Multiple Facebook Pages
Catherine Sanders Reach advises lawyers to have two facebook pages - one for personal use and one for professional stuff. This way you can separate out your personal and professional lives.
Pomodoro Time Management
"Do you jump from one task to the next without ever finishing? You may want to try the Pomodoro Technique of getting work done.
For Greater Productivity, Find Focus
People who are regularly bombarded with streams of email do not pay attention. Turn off all notifications that an email has arrived in order to structure your work and devote uninterrupted time to the important tasks of the day.
Speed Up Responses by Slowing Down
Being more thoughtful, courteous and deliberative when you leave a voice mail message, particularly one for a client, can do wonders to make that client believe he or she has chosen the right attorney – and to recommend you to others.
Plan Your Future!
This tip comes from Erin Roberts, the founding partner of Zzeem, Inc, a consulting and technology firm in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Erin works with businesses to build strong business …
Plan to Succeed
Regardless of how you say it, in order to make every day a successful one and keep your energy and enthusiasm levels high, you should spend the first few minutes of it (or – even better – a few minutes at the end of the day before) determining what your most important tasks are. Jot them down.
Get Ready to Be on Time
Change the sequence of tasks to get ready for a meeting well in advance to avoid being caught in the time crunch and end up being late.
Give Your Clients a Roadmap
At the beginning of every new case, give your client a roadmap that is a written chronology or frequently asked questions sheet for each particular type of matter that you handle, to guide your clients through the process.
Making Connections…
Add your photo to your v-card and set up Outlook to automatically attach this to all outgoing emails. Let people see a picture of you and start building a human connection!
A Quick Firm Checkup: How’s Your Billing Realization?
Usually, when a firm’s billing realization rate starts to slip, this is an indication that the firm is using ineffective procedures to do the work, or the responsible time biller isn’t as familiar with the area of law as he or she should be, or both. Either way, it means it’s time to take a look at who’s doing the work and how he or she is doing it, to determine whether training or the implementation of new work processes is needed.
