Time Management for Attorneys: A Lawyer's Guide to Decreasing Stress, Eliminating Interruptions & Getting Home on Time

Are you overwhelmed by a chaotic and exhausting work schedule? Are you concerned about how stress and chaos impact your personal and professional life? Would you like to attract better cases, improve the functioning of your law firm, and have more time for your family? If so, you are not alone. In spite of their outward appearance, many otherwise highly-skilled lawyers are adrift in a sea of chaos that is their legal practice. This is especially true amongst small firms and solo practitioners. Often, very bright, well respected individuals are overwhelmed by the combination of legal work and managerial duties that come with being an owner or partner. Many are so overwhelmed that it becomes difficult to effectively integrate new skills that could help them achieve better case outcomes or implement marketing efforts to obtain better cases, despite how much they desire those goals. There is a solution. Atticus, the nation’s leading law practice consulting firm, has produced a book called Time Management for Attorneys. It distills over twenty years of experience consulting with many of the top law firms in the country, helping them conquer the most important elements to achieve success and an improved quality of life. This book, and its accompanying forms CD, will help you implement changes that can positively impact your practice and your life outside work. The book covers issues such as: Setting personal and professional goals, as well as effective steps to achieve them Improving case selection and dropping bad clients Changes in the way you schedule tasks Systemizing your office Managing interruptions Delegating tasks And more The accompanying CD contains forms that will help you implement the concepts from the book into your practice and personal life. Since Atticus consults with firms in all varieties of law, this book applies to all lawyers, regardless of area of practice. Atticus consults with several of the nation’s leading plaintiff firms (including Trial Guides authors and customers), and the concepts in this book apply equally to those attorneys doing contingent fee work as well as hourly billing.