In order to keep being strategic and focused, you need to keep your skill set current and sharp.  Take time to not only stay current on your area of the law but also in the skills necessary for the effective running of your practice.

“Life is a series of interruptions interrupted by interruptions” is a quote that we had always attributed to John Lennon, but that may be apocryphal.

Anyone who has ever worked in a law office knows that interruptions are the bane of a lawyer’s existence. We can’t tell you how to get rid of them, but we can offer some suggestions to help you control them and reduce their impact on your work.

To control interruptions, make sure that you and your secretary both take your previously scheduled work sessions as seriously as you would a client interview. If …

This is the essence of management - acting quickly and appropriately once you have sufficient data on hand to indicate an improvement in how you operate. Appropriately following up based on the information that you receive from your organization - transforming it to a learning organization - will lead you ...over time...to the goals that you have set for you and your firm.

Furthermore, by increasing your daily interactions with your staff, you will be reinforcing the message that their motivation and performance is uppermost in your mind.

A Thank You File helps you remember what you have done for people when the winds of life threaten to blow out our own light - and help rekindle that spark within us.

Create feedback loops for your practice. Without feedback loops on your law firm activity, you will not have any real data to use in determining if you are in fact progressing towards your goals.

By continually meeting your client's expectations and fulfilling the plans that you set together for their file, as well as gradually implementing your overall plans for the firm, you will be taking discrete steps that will take you to your goals.

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it” according to Dwight Eisenhower.

A leader rarely exists in a vacuum. Leaders have to interact with those whom they wish to influence in order to achieve results.  That involves effectively communicating with those with whom you wish to interact.

There are so many aspects of the practice of law that are dependent on effective communication that it is difficult to know where to start.  Accordingly, perhaps the most important quality of communication is listening.  Lawyers often assume that in …

Before your office ever opens, take time to prepare your business plan and plan for success.

Of course, you are the person in charge of your future. But more importantly, your staff and your clients will be looking for you to take the lead and demonstrate that you have planned where you are going. They will be looking to you to be the light that shows them the right path to take in this confusing times.