5 Ways To Be Ruthless With Your Time

27 April, 2015

There just isn’t enough time. How much work do you have today? How many projects are you committed to? How many phone calls will come in today, how many meeting do you have to attend? Are you going to be able to clean out your overflowing inbox? The answer is too many, and no, you won’t be able to c...

The Scientific Reason Meetings Drag On Forever – and How to Fix it!

24 April, 2015

We’ve all probably experienced something like it. You plan your vacation to last two weeks. At the beginning, you relish the prospect of 14 whole days of fun and relaxation stretching out ahead of you. You excitedly dive into activities and excursions. You take ample time to relax, nap and laze arou...

How Filevine Helped a Deaf Firefighter

16 April, 2015

Last week a Filevine user told me about a neat experience using Filevine’s unique texting feature. It’s a story that should excite anybody who is looking for new ways to take care of clients. The background Filevine allows users to create unique texting phone numbers that are associated with a pro...

The Scandal of a Bare List: 3 Ways to Upgrade Your To-do List

10 April, 2015

We love to-do lists. We believe in them, use them, and cajole others into using them. They’re probably the simplest way to enhance your productivity. We also know the checklist is a blunt tool, that could use improvement. The productivity company iDoneThis crunched the numbers on our to-do lists. T...

Seven Tips to Positive Thinking – For Realists

26 March, 2015

If you roll your eyes at the term “positive thinking,” you’re not alone. Those of us who watched Saturday Night Live in the 90s underwent the formative experience of chortling along each time Stuart Smalley lisped “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.” In the decades si...

Supercharge Your Practice with One Project Management Tip

19 March, 2015

In most professions, you can draw at least a rough division between work that is business-as-usual and work that goes toward a special, time-bound project. But for attorneys, the division breaks down. As attorney Grant Collingsworth argues, “virtually every legal engagement is a project with a fixed...