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Trying to do everything yourself in your practice is a recipe for lawyer burnout. It also makes growing your practice impossible and vacations a distant dream. In fact, as we pointed out in last...
As a leader, you expect to manage your team. But if “managing” means you need to be involved in every decision, you’ll be stuck in meetings 24/7 (maybe you already are!). You and...
Corporate legal teams and law firms across the globe have invested heavily in legal project management programs in recent years…but are those programs delivering value? Are there decisive...
Creating and leading an effective remote work team requires you to provide your team with 5 things…but probably not the things you expect.
Welcome to Gimbal’s Tip of the Week, where...
The culture of work has changed forever. Even once we have successfully flattened the curve, people have been vaccinated, and we have managed to finally get ahead of COVID-19, there won’t be...
If you are of the “I can do it faster myself” school of delegation, then you are almost certainly losing money and you should rethink how you work.
This is Gimbal’s Tip of the...
We often get asked about the ROI of process improvement projects. Everyone’s focused on the money. Today we talk about the qualitative benefits you and your team will experience when you...
Research suggests that most lawyers spend only 2.5 hours a day on billable legal work. The rest of the time, they are wearing other hats: accountant, HR manager, photocopy repairperson, web...
This week we are talking about one way you can increase your chances of success when you are improving your practice: find yourself a community.
Change is hard. You may be the only person in your...
On Sunday, April 19, 2020, Casey Flaherty, Director of Legal Project Management at the global powerhouse, Baker McKenzie, posted an article called, “When ‘we’ve always done it...
Gimbal’s Process Improvement Tip of the Week: Picking the Best Project Team
Karen and I are just back from the west coast, where we started a new client...
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