Risk and Practice Management
Time Management/Missed Limitations
No matter how carefully you plan it, your day will still only have 24 hours in it. Given the ever increasing demands on our time, taking steps to effectively manage our time and use it wisely are very important.
Work smarter, not harder
Missed limitation periods
Planning ahead
The Pomodoro Technique to Time Management
The Golden Rule of Time Management
Become a successful delegatee
Supervision of work coming from your office
Helpful Tips
- Decide early what actions have to be taken
- Break the project into steps
- Set a timeline for each step
- Don't underestimate the time you will need to complete a task
- Plan your time taking into account not only the matter, but the client and opposite counsel
- Look at your calendar before you make a time related promise to a client or opposite counsel
- List and prioritize daily and weekly assignments
- Create a computerized to-do list. Keep personal and business calendar together
- Allow for some flexibility in your schedule to allow for “emergencies”
- Work during that part of the day that you work best and have the most energy
- Block time-determine best thinking time, best phone calling time, best mail time, best legal projects time
- Meet with your assistant daily to ensure good communication between each other and to allow each of you to review upcoming deadlines and work schedules. Also review the status of current cases. This enables your assistant to talk intelligently to clients when they call and cuts down on unnecessary interruptions in your workday
- Do your most dreaded task first
- Realize unpleasant tasks don't get easier over time and in fact, they get harder when they are put off. Just start anywhere. The worry over not working on a project seems take more energy than doing it. Just start
- Focus
- Take breaks for physical activity
- Learn to say no
- Capture your time for work that you do
- Impose a quitting time and stick to it