Monday, October 29, 2007
Time Management
There are many skills lawyers need that we fail to mention much less develop in the formal educational process. Among the most crucial is time management. Especially for lawyers who bill by the hour, it is crucial to become as organized as possible. There are various techniques for doing so that are popular: touching each piece of paper once, taking care of email messages immediately as they come in, the entire “GTD” protocol, and so on. There also is the cliché no less worth repeating: technology by and large does not improve the basic structure of one’s life; a PDA may automate a person’s habits, but it will do only that. It is scarcely worth giving advice, because almost everyone with responsibility already knows what must be done to avoid procrastination and follow up reliably. Each of us must make choices, recognizing that they are choices: choosing priorities and turning down opportunities to ensure commitments that are made are fulfilled.
