A quick tangent from my Domains of Activity series, I’m putting together some case studies of firms I’ve worked with and the improvements they’ve made. Here’s the first one: Case Study: Optimizing a Small Family Law Practice The Situation A family law firm consisting of two attorneys and three staff struggled with workflow optimization and …
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I’ve talked with several attorneys lately who have all told me a version of the same story. It goes like this: “I don’t have time to do a bunch of process improvement work, but a few times a year something about my workflow drives me crazy and I resolve to fix the whole darn …
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Are you unconsciously cheating yourself and your clients by multitasking? Many people assume that multitasking creates efficiency, but as Oregon Law School professor Elizabeth Ruiz Frost writes in the February/March edition of the Oregon State Bar Bulletin, this logic is deeply flawed. Prof. Frost outlines the growing body of research showing how multitasking, far from …
If you haven’t already, you should probably go check out my last post, which is essentially Chapter 1 of my in-progress book Kanban For Lawyers. As I write this, I’m currently wrapping up the 8th chapter and I plan to publish it to the LeanPub version of the book next week. Right now you can …
Recently the ABA’s Law Practice Today Magazine published my article The Dawn of the Agile Attorney. In it, I profile several lawyers, some practicing attorneys and others who have gone on to legal tech careers, who have adopted Agile methods in their work and lives. Reception to the article has been great, and several people …
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