By Larry Port
on August 23, 2010
On a scale of 1-5 (5 being the highest) rank your level of agreement with the statement: I regularly scan a couple of core numbers to determine at a glance how healthy my firm is.
This webinar is sponsored by Rocket Matter, the leading online legal practice management and time tracking software, and is free to [...]
By Larry Port
on July 23, 2010
I’m writing a book on legal productivity and I’d love to get some real-life tips and practices from successful practicing attorneys for inclusion in the book.
Here’s the form for the legal productivity survey.
We’ll be judging the entries. The top 20 will be included in our volume, with complete attribution and reference to your firm [...]
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By Larry Port
on July 21, 2010
One of the best ways to boost your legal productivity, aside from using dedicated legal productivity software, is to embrace mind maps. We keep revisiting mind maps in our posts because they’re one of the most powerful collaboration and brainstorming tools we use here at Rocket Matter for all aspects of our operations.
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By Larry Port
on June 21, 2010
If you’ve noticed an increased inability to concentrate, you’re not alone. And for lawyers, where time is literally money, procrastination and lack of focus can hamper productivity and damage revenues.
A growing chorus of scientific evidence confirms what you may already suspect: that massive consumption of the web, email, Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, or other [...]
By Larry Port
on June 4, 2010
Skype is an amazing tool. The quality since we’ve been using it for the past three years keeps improving to the point where I hope, when I talk to someone, we can do a Skype to Skype chat as opposed to a regular phone call.
We’ve even rolled together an inexpensive and highly efficient alternative [...]
By Larry Port
on April 14, 2010
In Part One of our Legal Pomodoro Series, we introduced the basics of The Pomodoro Technique:
Pomodoro is Italian for tomato. The guy who invented it lives in Italy and had a wind-up tomato timer in his kitchen. The idea is simple: you wind up the timer for 25 minutes and work [...]
By Larry Port
on March 31, 2010
A copy of the mindmap can be downloaded here as a visual PDF or here as a text-based outline.
Stay tuned to our blog or Twitter for a recording of the webinar!
Below is the Prezi Presentation:
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Rocket Matter Law 2.0 Webinar: Increase Revenues and Understand Alternative [...]
By Larry Port
on March 29, 2010
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By Larry Port
on March 11, 2010
Let’s face it: lawyers have to wear a lot of hats. Before you know it, your day can be over and you feel like you’ve gotten nothing accomplished.
Like the Getting Things Done personal organizational system, The Pomodoro Technique is popular in technology circles but I haven’t seen a wide discussion of it in Legal. [...]
By Larry Port
on March 9, 2010
If you’re like most law firms these days, you’re probably either a) contemplating running a paperless office b) transitioning to a paperless office or c) enjoying the awesomeness of the paperless office.
In Part Two of this series, we examine your document scanning “workflow”.
A workflow consists of a sequence of connected steps. (Wikipedia)
And when you’re going paperless, [...]
