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3 Productivity Tips for Lawyers and Legal Assistants

By Maria Bashi
Oct 17, 2022
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Are you a lawyer, paralegal, or legal assistant who’s struggling with time management? Life in a law firm is incredibly fast-paced, so you may feel there’s never enough time for everything you need to do. And this feeling can lead to mental exhaustion and affect the quality of your work, thus stopping you from achieving your career goals.

How do you maintain peak productivity? How do you improve your workflow to save time and energy while producing outstanding work for your clients?

 Here are three productivity tips for lawyers. Read on to learn how to manage your time better. 

Keep A Daily Calendar

An excellent way to manage your time better is to maintain a daily calendar with meetings, tasks, appointments, and deadlines. Your daily planner can provide a physical visualization of your workload. Thus, it can help you identify gaps in your schedule and any potential obstacles to your productivity. 

If you want to go a step further, consider splitting your tasks by category and designate a day for each type of task. For example, schedule all your meetings on Mondays or choose a day of the week exclusively for filing paperwork. It’s also important to assign a time slot for each task. 

Although keeping a daily calendar is highly beneficial for maintaining peak performance, life as a lawyer can be unpredictable. Your priorities might change daily due to the urgent nature of various last-minute tasks or appointments. So, keep a calendar but block time for emergencies. 

Work With a Reliable Courier 

Another excellent way to save time and significantly improve workflow in your law firm is to work with a reliable courier for all your delivery needs. A legal courier can handle all your last-minute document retrievals and filings so you can focus on other urgent aspects of your work. 

Look for legal courier services in your area that provide rush deliveries. Lawyers, licensed investigators, and government agencies rely on couriers to save time and speed up legal processes. So, consider doing the same. 

Block Time Slots for Communications Only 

A lawyer may receive dozens of calls and messages each day. And handling this flow of calls and emails can be challenging. Moreover, any incoming communication will distract you, thus affecting your productivity. Most of us underestimate how much emails, messages, and phone calls disrupt our mental flow. 

An excellent way to avoid distractions when you have important work to do is to establish a set time for responding to incoming communications. Stop breaking off tasks to answer a phone call or an email. Instead, block time slots for communications. For example, you could set aside 10 or 30 minutes for communication every two hours or once a day. Or you can set aside one hour for communications after each hour of office work. By doing so, you will provide prompt replies without letting yourself be distracted. 

Final Words 

Numerous studies have shown that job satisfaction is low among lawyers due to the stressful nature of the job. This is not a job for lazy people. The only way to find success and fulfillment as a lawyer is to learn to manage your time and productivity. This will allow you to reduce your stress while also keeping your clients happy.

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