Getting and Staying Organized: Effective Work Habits for Successful Lawyers
Why Attend?
In today's fast-paced legal world, your ability to get and stay organized by effectively planning projects and managing information is critical. The potential risks of poor organization can range from frustration due to an inability to locate an important document to more severe consequences such as a malpractice suit or disciplinary action. You have invested years learning the substance of the law. Now invest two hours to learn productivity-enhancing techniques to organize your legal work and how to apply them to your daily practice.
In this solution-oriented webcast, last broadcast in September 2009, you will learn hundreds of techniques and strategies to address the unique organizational challenges you face, including practical strategies for creating efficient systems to help you track ongoing projects, deal with paper flow, set up a filing system, and manage e-mails to make you more productive and reduce your risk of malpractice and disciplinary actions. Get the tools you need to dramatically improve your legal work habits so you can get more done in less time!
What You Will Learn
Topics include:
Planning Projects in Your Legal Practice
Creating and Using a Bullet-Proof To-Do System: The Pyramid Approach, The Two-List Approach, and Using Microsoft Outlook for Task Management
Juggling Multiple Projects
Managing Non-Deadline Driven Tasks
Painless Ways To Incorporate Planning into Your Legal Practice
Managing Information in Your Legal Practice
Conquering E-Mail Overload: How To Manage Your E-Mail Effectively
Dealing with the Paper Flow
Filing Systems: How To Transition from Piles to Files: Project, Reference, and Tickler Files
Good Organization Habits
Conclusions and Challenges
This interactive seminar gives you the opportunity to submit questions in advance and/or during the program for discussion by the instructor during the live audio Q&A period at the end of the webcast.
Who Should Attend
This webcast is intended for lawyers and other legal professionals who want to improve their organizational skills so they can be more effective and productive in their legal work.
Faculty
Meg Spencer Dixon is a consultant specializing in organization and time management seminars for lawyers and legal professionals. Ms. Dixon came to the field of organization and time management by way of a career in law, during which she practiced in the litigation and energy groups of Shaw Pittman in Washington, D.C. She received her undergraduate degree in economics from Princeton University in 1982 and law degree from Stanford Law School in 1985. In 1992, Ms. Dixon founded Spencer Consulting, and since then has been customizing and conducting seminars and providing one-on-one consulting/coaching on many aspects of organization and time management and related subjects such as project management, stress management, overcoming procrastination, conquering e-mail overload, and how to run effective meetings. She has presented seminars for lawyers and other legal professionals at over 135 law firms, associations, CLE providers, government agencies, corporate law departments, universities, and law schools.
Program Schedule
12:30 p.m. Program Begins (EDT)
2:15 p.m. Questions and Answers via live audio webcast
2:30 p.m. Adjournment
Total 60-minute hours of instruction: 2.0; total 50-minute hours: 2.4
PLEASE NOTE: Not all MCLE states (including IN, KS, NC, TX, VA, and WA) will accredit this program. Please consult the Mandatory CLE information provided before the webcast to confirm that your state will approve it for credit.
Here's what registrants have said about this course:
“This was one of the best. Well organized. Very attuned to the needs of the practitioner.”
“Fabulous program - I can't wait to put this course into action.”
“Very good program. Covered the most critical issues for improving organization and efficiency - developing work plans and managing paper.”
Times
Eastern 12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Central 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Mountain 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Pacific 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Alaska 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Hawaii 6:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
