Find out what technology you need to focus on implementing in your law practice to elevate performance without burning out. Some tech decisions are obvious, like opting to use a second monitor. But there's an overwhelming range of choices to consider implementing across…
Due to the forecasted snow fall and blizzard-like conditions in Boston for Thursday, January 4th, 2018, LCL is issuing a “Call-Ahead Warning” regarding any appointments or groups that are scheduled for our Boston office (617-482-9600) in the event that we…
Every year I make the same resolution. My resolution is to not make any resolutions this year. And every year, I break my resolution simply by making it. This is my way of taking away the guilt or pressure of making lofty goals that will most likely be broken sometime in the near future. This is our human nature: we get excited about change, start to make a change, realize that change actually takes hard work, get discouraged by that requirement, start failing in our efforts, judge our progress against our idea of what it “should” look like, and then stop making progress entirely. This is why so many people buy gym memberships at the start of the year and then stop using them entirely in March. This is also why gyms do not expand their space due to the influx of new members at the beginning of the year. They know that the numbers will decrease rapidly.
In this edition of Webinars for Busy Lawyers, Carol Schiro Greenwald will share the communication guidelines clients love. Do you hear from your clients too often? Does it seem they expect you to communicate more often than you'd prefer, or…
The holiday season is not unique in terms of the various hot topic conversations that often come up between friends and family members. However, this season may provide more opportunity for such discussions given the nature of getting together with people you may not see on a regular basis and therefore having less of a track record with said people in terms of successfully discussing difficult topics without ending in a knock-down-drag-out brawl that embarrasses Aunt Shirley’s sensibilities. Popular topics that ruin family events include such classics as politics, world events, religion, sex, and of course the ever-controversial issue of whether a food can be considered a side dish if it has marshmallows on top. Don’t get me started.
Find out what tools you can use to give your clients the right experience with technology in your law practice. Your clients want expedience, but they don't want complications - and they also want to work with a human. To…
What do you want out of your career as a lawyer? Here's how to approach one of the most overwhelming questions we face to find more meaningful success. I meet a significant number of clients that struggle to answer the…
When you ask people what the holiday season means to them, you will probably get as many answers as the people you asked. For some, the holiday season brings up memories (some good, some bad, some ugly, some they hope one day to repress) of years past that they either wish or fear could be repeated each year. It can be difficult to know what to expect and how to prepare. I find it easy to feel overwhelmed and distracted by the bombardment of messages about the holidays (you should feel happy, you should spend time with family, you should throw parties, you should buy lots of stuff, you should make resolutions, you should or shouldn’t eat lots of sweets, you should compete with your neighbor for the most electricity used to light the exterior of your dwelling, etc.). By this time in the season, I’m tempted to start dreaming of life on a deserted island.
From budgeting to finding a parking spot in the city, the right apps can make you a more efficient lawyer and a more focused human. Reliance on our smartphones is now the norm. 70% of lawyers report using a smartphone…
In our work with the legal community, we see a fair number of law students and lawyers who are somewhere in between the precontemplation and contemplation stages of change. The precontemplation stage is when the person is unaware of the need to change a particular behavior, has no interest in changing, minimizes the negative aspects of changing, and highlights the positive reasons for the status quo. The contemplation stage is when the person is aware that something needs to change, they might not know exactly what they need to do or what it will entail, but they have a desire to make a change in the near future.