NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

Most attorneys should probably be ruled by their calendars, with law practices running on deadlines. Of course, the problem with just taking a final deadline, and dropping that onto the calendar ( like: attend a hearing, send a document), is that you’re usually left just triaging everything , at the very last minute.

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 25, 2021

A time like this will inspire many lawyers and staff members to take a family road trip, spend time off at a nearby beach town, or hop a plane to a farther-away dream spot. Use your calendaring and project management tools to help make it happen. Summer’s here and the country’s reopening around us. This creates space to unplug.

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JULY 2, 2022

Lawyer stress influences our ability to think and work. Beyond doubt, we are all experiencing incredible amounts of lawyer stress. Even when we think we are fine or “handling it,” lawyer stress influences our ability to think and work. Typically , we are responsible for our own systems, including calendaring.

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CARET Legal

DECEMBER 16, 2024

How Practice Management Software Helps Bankruptcy Lawyers Stay Organized Practice management software is a lifeline for bankruptcy attorneys drowning in paperwork and deadlines. Without practice management software , an attorney might use a combination of paper files, spreadsheets, emails, and calendar reminders to keep track of each case.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 18, 2022

Advances in technology and access to legal staffing is helping rural lawyers improve workflows and operate more efficiently. How can rural attorneys consistently get on the same playing field as urban and suburban lawyers? For instance, easy-to-use calendaring tools allow attorneys to offer appointment booking on their websites.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 19, 2022

Confession: As a new lawyer, I didn’t realize that to be successful in private practice, I had to “sell” or “market” my services. Most people would probably go with someone they’ve known for years — or someone referred to them by someone they trust — especially when retaining a lawyer or other professional.

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CARET Legal

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Solutions tailored to real estate lawyers provide a unified platform for seamless collaboration, paving the way for smoother transactions. Real estate transactions are intricate undertakings, involving multiple parties such as lawyers, agents, clients, and external stakeholders. Schedule a demo today.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Lawyers with ADD/ADHD may struggle with organization, sustained focus, procrastination and deadlines. In my work as a psychologist, most lawyers and law students who talk to me about their attention deficit disorder, or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, are typically under a fair amount of stress due to their symptoms.

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LawSites

JUNE 15, 2023

If so, then the two most important tools in a law practice may just be the calendar and the document management system. Through the calendar, the lawyer manages time, and through documents the lawyer dispenses and memorializes advice. Connect a NetDocuments workspace to a templatized Microsoft Team.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

APRIL 13, 2021

Every year, when you apply for or renew your malpractice insurance, your provider asks whether you have a ‘dual calendar’ system -- like that’s good practice for running a law firm. The best practice of a ‘dual calendar’ system is a vestige from times past, when lawyers used paper calendars. Only, it’s not.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Does this advice hold true for lawyers who want to start their own practice? Lawyers often have knowledge about issues that prospective clients don’t even know are sources of substantial problems. Do you think the lawyers who create content for their firm should be compensated for doing so? Even better, right?

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LawSites

JULY 20, 2021

The cloud-based practice management platform MerusCase is today launching an integration with CalendarRules to provide rules-based calendaring of court deadlines. In setting up the calendaring, the firm can assign specific tasks to specific individuals within the firm and can nest parent/child events that support one another.

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Attorney at Work

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Most lawyers I know have at least one thing in common. To organize your time, find a calendaring system that works for you and put everything on the calendar: personal and professional. You could go analog with a desk calendar. You could use your Outlook calendar tied to your email.

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 12, 2021

Before you realize it, your calendar is full through next August and you’re feeling frustrated, used, and quite cranky. Try these tips and your calendar will be your friend again. That sounds very nice, unfortunately, my calendar is booked solid.” Now it’s your calendar’s fault. Silly calendar! Well, okay.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

With the sheer volume of business information everyone (both potential clients and referral sources) is exposed to everyday, lawyers must keep a consistent flow of content outgoing from their law firms, if they hope to compete in content marketing.

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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

CalendarRules is a calendar add-on feature that pulls and calculates deadlines for specific courts around the United States. If there’s one thing lawyers worry about more than revenue, it’s malpractice claims; and, one consistent bogeyman invading those nightmares is missed court deadlines. Let’s take a look at each, in turn.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

What’s the first thing most lawyers do when they get to the office? For many lawyers, identifying a single priority is even better, because we all know that urgent demands may, and likely will, arise and inevitably pull you off task. Block time on your calendar for when you’ll get your work done. The point is, plan your days.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Lawyers tend to be inefficient, and have difficulty engaging both leads and clients. Programs like Calendly and Acuity allow clients to book appointments directly onto a law firm or lawyer’s calendar, and include buffers and controls, so users aren’t overwhelmed. LawTap offers a similar tool focused on the legal environment.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 25, 2022

An integration announced today makes the court-calendaring software LawToolBox available within the MyCase law practice management platform, enabling lawyers who use MyCase to automatically calculate key court dates and deadlines and add them to their MyCase calendars.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

MARCH 13, 2022

Most attorneys are ‘good lawyers’. If you want to make sure your clients are happy with what you’re doing, put a recurring four-week tickler on your calendar, to reach out to each active client of the firm. They do good work; they’re conscientious, and th o rough , to boot. That sounds like a wonderful fairy tale, because it is.

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LawSites

JULY 28, 2021

Law practice management company Clio has acquired the automated court-calendaring company CalendarRules , Clio’s first acquisition since becoming the first law practice management company to achieve unicorn status earlier this year and its second acquisition ever. Syncing court dates to calendars in Microsoft Outlook and Google Calendar. “By

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Drag and drop the email onto the calendar, task or people folder (via the icons/words in either the bottom or upper left-hand corner). Toggling back and forth between your inbox and calendar all day gets old quickly. Show Your Calendar in Your Email Inbox. Drag and Drop to Create Appointments, Tasks and Contacts.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Lawyer Leadership skills. The Five Pillars of Lawyer Leadership Skills. A great starting point to help lawyers explore their identity as a leader is a personality assessment, such as the DiSC Personality Profile. How can you help your lawyers become effective managers and leaders? We all know they are important.

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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

It’s a battle as old as WordPerfect versus Word: Should lawyers type? Since lawyers have keyboarding skills, how many can be assigned to one admin assistant? All the extra stuff that you, the lawyer, get to do — or worse, pile up because you are too busy to handle it. Imagine all the cost savings … right?

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Attorney at Work

JULY 28, 2022

Let’s stretch this idea for marketing by two kinds of lawyers. Some lawyers are so busy they can’t imagine finding another minute for marketing; call them the “horrible.” Consider volunteering your services to a nonprofit organization or another lawyer (someone horrible?) The Fortunate Horribles. You’re busy, aren’t you?

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 10, 2022

Do so by scheduling an auto-recurring client development meeting with yourself in your automated calendar or schedule auto-recurring reminders to regularly follow up with your key clients, referral sources, prospective clients and other valuable contacts. Why use auto-recurring meetings with yourself and reminders?

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Working from home means we’ve become our own assistants (unless you have a remarkably talented parrot), while virtual meetings have overstuffed our calendars with video invites and endless embedded links. Just be sure to reset them before your next call, or you might end up like the “cat lawyer” ! Meeter takes care of all that.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 26, 2021

Now that we’re coming out of the pandemic, many lawyers are slammed. I’ve worked with lawyers my entire career and I know there are times when client or practice demands are overwhelming. So what is a busy lawyer to do? If you are hoping to speak at a seminar, calendar the deadline to submit a proposal. Schedule time.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 20, 2022

If they become a repeat abuser, I take the situation to the lawyer (because of course, you know this is a true principle, they do NOT behave that way with the attorney). I ask the lawyer to address it with the client and sometimes they will simply decide that they will handle that client directly. My list is below. Always and forever.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Susan Cohodes | For as long as I can remember, I’ve organized my life around a calendar with two sections: football season and waiting for football season. The post Game Time: Season of a Legal Career appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.

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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

CalendarRules is a calendar add-on feature that pulls and calculates deadlines for specific courts around the United States. If there’s one thing lawyers worry about more than revenue, it’s malpractice claims; and, one consistent bogeyman invading those nightmares is missed court deadlines. Let’s take a look at each, in turn.

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

It’s a new year, which means a clean social media calendar and another round of holidays that need fresh content. What do the best holiday social media posts have in common? But before you start brainstorming your post for Lincoln’s Birthday, we are here to liberate you from that burden.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Some of these mentor relationships lasted only for a single 30-minute “pick-your-brain” session, while others have been as needed over the trajectory of the lawyers’ careers. If you’re a young lawyer and want to have a meaningful relationship with your mentor, here are a few tips on how to be a great mentee. Even better?

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Paralegal Bootcamp

AUGUST 5, 2021

Paralegals are essential to a personal injury law firm, whether for a solo practitioner or a large firm with many lawyers. Among other important paralegal skills, knowing the medicine allows the lawyers more time to practice law and bring in more clients. It can also save a lawyer time, which makes you invaluable to the lawyer.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

JANUARY 3, 2024

For lawyers who engage with the buying public – which is just about every lawyer, whether they’re working with consumers o r businesses – workshops can be a great way to build a client and referral base, as well as solidifying an attorney’s expertise.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 23, 2021

On the contrary, to be the best lawyer, family member and person, you must take time for rejuvenation. The happiest lawyers are also the most productive and efficient. Let me check my calendar and get back to you.”. The amount of time is less important than ensuring you take the downtime when you need it. That might work.

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CARET Legal

APRIL 5, 2024

Lawyer burnout can significantly impact a lawyer’s ability to perform and deliver quality work, affecting productivity, revenue and client relationships. Lawyer burnout is a significant and prevalent issue in the modern legal profession. What Causes Lawyer Burnout?

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