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Your potential clients encounter thousands of commercial messages every day. Even if only a fraction of them relate to legal services, it's still overwhelming. And it's harder to stand out and...
A good brainstorming session can generate a wealth of great ideas, but sometimes, despite your best efforts to cajole your team into creativity, the ideas don’t come. Or worse, people argue...
Brainstorming is one of the fastest ways to generate great ideas for redesigning processes in your law firm. But what if you run a brainstorming session and no one participates? Perhaps...
When Janelle came to us, she was running her busy litigation practice off an 18-page to-do list she kept on a yellow pad on her desk. I’m sure you can picture that list. Frayed edges. Tasks...
Running your own firm is great but it can also be lonely. Being your own boss means that you oversee every aspect of your business. You're the only one worrying about cash flow. You’re the...
Although you’re great at what you do, chances are your practice isn’t running as smoothly as it could…and you know it. Everyday tasks take too long or seem too complicated....
A few months ago, an email accidentally went out to all our subscribers about an event that was only open to our Practice Accelerator members. Some people who learned about the event by accident...
When you encounter friction in your practice, it’s tempting to try to fix it quickly, sticking a band-aid on the problem without analyzing why it’s happening. But band-aids are...
We talk a lot about finding the opportunities to improve your practice. Once you’ve identified an opportunity to make improvements in your practice, it’s really tempting to jump right...
Legal work requires deep thought and creativity, but when you have back-to-back client calls, non-stop meetings, and deliverables due in the morning, you don’t have the time (or the focus)...
Sometimes, the hardest thing about change is knowing where to start. Maybe you read our tips on value and waste, or you downloaded our guide to the Eight Ways to Stop Losing Time & Money in...
Parkinson’s law is the universally accepted phenomenon that work expands to fill the time available for its completion. It’s easy to become bogged down with too many deliverables and...
