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Seminars on Organization and Time Management

Celebrate the New Organized You — Time Management and the Virtual Office (1.5 hours)
This fast-paced session will address the dual demands made on you as a practicing lawyer and business person. We will cover procrastination, organization, communication, prioritization, delegation and completion of your tasks from anywhere at any time.

Get a Grip! Effectively and Efficiently Administering Your Practice While Making the Most of Your Time (2 hours)
Managing mountains of information, while coping with the relentless daily responsibilities of servicing your clients, can be a stressful and daunting task for any attorney. Those who succumb to the stress are likely to make errors and perhaps commit malpractice. This fast-paced session addresses the many new and persistent challenges you are likely to face, and explores the tools readily available to help you meet those challenges head-on and stay on top of your game. This session covers procedure management in depth to help you improve practice efficiencies and avoid malpractice exposure. . Properly establishing procedures to handle such issues as client intake, trust accounting and fraud prevention, end of engagement, conflict checking, records management and so forth will ensure that work flows smoothly through the office and that the firm does not commit ethical blunders or commit more serious mistakes in its day-to-day operations.

Making the Most of Your Time (1 - 1.5 hours)
Managing mountains of information, while coping with the relentless daily responsibilities and details necessary to properly service your clients can be a stressful and daunting task for any attorney. Those who do not effectively and efficiently use their time in an organized manner make more mistakes, miss deadlines, frequently disappoint clients, and may ultimately face disciplinary problems and/or malpractice claims.

This fast-paced session addresses the many new and persistent challenges you are likely to face. It examines the factors which may hold you back from operating efficiently, and it explores the techniques and tools readily available to help you meet those challenges head-on and stay on top of your game.

[Ths course is suitable for office administrators and managers in addition to attorneys.]

Time Management for Solo & Small Firm Attorneys (1-1.5 hours)
This fast-paced session will provide solid tips, tools, and tricks for taming information overload, managing projects, maintaining effective communications with clients and staff, and working smarter instead of harder.

Seminars on Work / Life Balance

The Life of the Solo – Techniques to Keep Your Practice from Taking Over Your Life (1-2 hours)
Solo practitioners have an especially difficult time balancing their work and life needs. It is impossible to hand off obligations when there is no one else in the practice. This session explores techniques and technology that can help you take the time you need to keep both your practice and your life moving along smoothly.

You Can’t Always Be Superwoman (1-2 hours)
The confluence of pressures from home and work can derail even the most dedicated and zealous among us. For some women, the stress of continually trying to balance roles at work and home becomes too great — sometimes difficult choices must be made to sacrifice one role to benefit the other. This course will discuss the coping and management strategies which can make the difference between experiencing emotional nuclear meltdown, or achieving the superwoman status of one who manages the conflicts and demands of home and office and “has it all.”

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