Pavlov’s dog had nothing on most BlackBerry/iPhone/BlackJack/other PDA users.Â
All too often, we (and I include myself) hear the “beep” or feel the vibration and pounce immediately, even in the middle of a sentence — our own or someone else’s. And I’ve seen (and though I’d prefer not to admit it, experienced) the discomfort that can [...]
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 Just a few months ago, I wrote a blog entry titled, Social networking, yea or nay?, in which I reviewed an issue of Law Practice Management that featured several article advocating the use of social networking. Since then, I’ve networked on LinkedIn and I even set up a Facebook profile, though I drew the line at [...]
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Every office has one: the messy lawyer, whose desk and/or office always looks like a bomb exploded and left behind papers and files and coffee cups and who-knows-what-else scattered everywhere. It’s a good practice to clear the decks weekly or following the end of a major project, just to keep some level of tidiness. This [...]
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 Only 34 days remain in 2007, including weekends and holidays. Before we know it, the books will close and another year will have passed. What’s the most important step you can take today to ensure that you’re well-positioned as you move into 2008?
Business development: Perhaps you could set aside a couple of hours to evaluate [...]
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A few things I’ve been collecting in the last week…
1. Fundamental attribution error This is a new term for me, though the idea is familiar. Gretchen Rubin of The Happiness Project blogs about our human tendency to assume that other people’s actions reflect their character or attitudes and to overlook the environmental influences that may shape their [...]
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Have you ever struggled with time management challenges? If you’re like most lawyers (myself included), it’s sometimes difficult to make sure that everything that needs to get done does get done. During my years in practice, I learned a number of time management strategies, and I now share those with my clients.Â
On October 11 at [...]
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One of the rules I keep in mind when writing  is that good writing is clear, crisp, and simple. The same rule often applies more generally as well. As Einstein said, “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
When it comes to managing one’s personal life while maintaining a practice, “simple” is the [...]
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One of the fundamental tenents of work/life balance, work/life integration, or any other name one might choose to describe the relationship between time applied on professional and personal matters is simple: conscious decisions on what to do and what to forego are mandatory, because no one can do everything. My husband has a photo in his office [...]
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By the time this posts, I will likely have landed back at the Atlanta airport, home from vacation and from the ABA annual meeting. First, I’d like to thank Peter Vajda publicly for his posts. Relationship is always an interesting topic, and I believe that in many ways our relationships shape and promote or inhibit [...]
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One of the interesting things about coaching is that periodically, the topics on which I’m coaching someone will rise up and smack me in the face. Pride may go before a fall, but working with someone else on an issue they’re facing seems highly likely in some bizarre cosmic way to raise the same issue [...]
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May 05, 2008 
