- law dawg
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Since March Madness results in some of the least productive days of the year, we thought we would ask what productivity tips and tricks you are using lately. How do you stay focused on what you need to do? Are you the type that schedules everything or more the type that allows the day to flow from interruption to interruption. If you could change one thing about the practice of law that would make it easier to be productive what would you do?
I’ve always been a big fan of having a “To Do List” and completing a few key tasks each day.
By not GAF about March Madness.
College hoops dies in the 90s with the longer shot clock, extended 3 point and one and dones.
I’m trying more and more to take on the tasks I enjoy, or that I’m good at, or that I get done quickly, and delegating tasks that feel more burdensome, to the extent that’s reasonable.
It took me a long time to feel comfortable trusting others to handle work I feel responsible for, and it feels “selfish” or something like that to unload burdensome tasks on others.
But I’m pretty good at my job when it’s not a burden, and the productivity of my workweek increases a lot when I focus on the things that don’t wear me out (again, within reason).
Only the fear of looking foolish keeps me productive.
More than a decade into practice and I’ve self diagnosed myself as ADHD. I don’t deal well with a itinerary. I deal with each fire as it comes in–largely in part to the idea that if you can deal with it in less than 5 minutes, do it now. I have seen stuff about blocking out an hour of your day to deal with email etc where you don’t take calls, but haven’t been able to implement it myself. I just do my best to keep everything moving towards the next deadline.
This practice actually has served me very well (along with my ADD) for over 20 years. It also casts an impression over potentially adversarial relationships and if done right compels OC to pay strict attention to you, because you are ON the fkg ball!
Zapier.
I have seen some people use AI to summarize depositions and ask it questions to ask this expert in a deposition, etc.
Delegation and EOS Traction.
How does that work? Just copy the TXT file of the depo transcript into ChatGPT and ask it to suggest questions? Thats frickin sick!
Don’t forget to bill 9 hours for “research”
Review of Depo transcript of _________________. Draft summary for file. Prepare trial questions for expert witness. 9.0 hours
I think the new Adobe AI features do this. Can give you a summary about a particular document, or you can use another AI tool to use it more like ChatGPT. I’ve yet to try the latter. It’s clunky, but it can work.
Makes you really think about what the practice of law is going to look like in 5-10 years.
Asking my friend what he uses, he hasn’t responded yet. Here’s a website by probably the legal AI guru on other AI tools for lawyers. Wfirm.com/ai
One thing to make the practice of law easier to be productive? Un-invent email.
Family Court Update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxj4ap15pSQ Check it out! Cameras in the courtroom. The cabal is being exposed! No more rules for thee and not for me!
When you lie a lie, you get throat cancer.
With mail in ballots all accountability is off the table. Expect NV to follow CA into the abyss.
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1771879902838485429
Do kindly take a seat and stop trying to suppress my vote, you demented fuck.
Sorry, law.dawg. It’s been a long weekend.
If we don’t send mail in ballots to every registered voter, my vote is suppressed!
We do not live in a real country anymore.