Find out what your small firm needs to do to keep up with change in this special one-hour edition of our Webinars for Busy Lawyers, In conjunction with the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) New England Chapter's New Members Division.…
Much has been written about the importance of gratitude for your mental well-being. Focusing on what you are grateful for is an excellent way to avoid negative cyclic thinking and to put struggles into a wider perspective. In addition to identifying areas of gratitude, it is also helpful to recognize areas of struggle. Not to dwell on them, but to acknowledge them, understand them, and process them so that they do not linger in the background as the wallpaper of your life.
Along with the great benefits that come with using cloud technology in your law practice comes the need for ethical due diligence. Get the essentials on vetting cloud technology vendors below. Getting to the Cloud We regularly advocate for…
This year's conference is offering more tools than ever to help you optimize your lawyering. Every spring, the ABA Law Practice Division brings lawyers and technology together in Chicago, and we pass along an additional discount to our subscribers. Early Bird…
In a productive and fast paced culture, a premium is placed on working hard and getting things done. So much so, that sleep can be seen as a liability. It is talked about as a badge of honor if someone regularly works 7 days a week or puts in 80-100 hours a week. Rarely do you hear someone brag about how they got all their work done in half the time and took a well-deserved nap. The conflict between valuing work and seeing sleep as a liability can be illustrated in the tempting proposition: Would you give up half of what you owned in order to be able to have the ability to be fully rested with only one hour of sleep each night?
As an LCL employee (since 1998!) it may be presumptuous of me to commend LCL on behalf of our clients, but a recent encounter with another profession’s assistance program has renewed my appreciation of our program for lawyers.
If you manage any employees in your law practice, you understand what an undertaking it is. Find out how to create a workplace that optimizes everyone's performance - in 30 minutes or less - with our next edition of Webinars for…
It has often been noted that law schools provide little preparation for the nitty gritty of real-life practice. Over the years, I have met individually at LCL with so many new lawyers who are losing sleep and feeling tied up in knots as they do their best to handle their work competently.
Start with the essential business plan building blocks to create an innovative law practice. Once you have your vision developed, you're ready start planning to get there. If you still need to identify your vision of career success, find out how to…
No one wants to feel frustrated. It’s annoying, painful, and …well, frustrating. One of the common qualities that all humans have is that we are all compelled by two basic motivations; we want to avoid pain and pursue pleasure. Despite the desire to live a pain-free life, pain is necessary and helpful. One example of this is how frustration can lead to positive change. On a small scale, everything we have learned in life is due to the frustration or discomfort of not knowing something or not being able to do something we wanted to do. From our earliest days we learn to walk and talk because we get frustrated that we cannot communicate effectively to get what we want and we cannot move ourselves efficiently across the floor. So frustration is necessary.