Practice Management

In Praise of Structure.

By Dan Hull

Do we lawyers know how to get things done, done right and done on time? Do we even value that? I wonder.

I am not talking here about the simple "keeping face" and survival requirements of meeting client deal or court deadlines, or even about the cliches of working hard, creative thinking, "out of the box", working smart or being persistent. I mean structure, a real standard, and "practicing structure" every day--the discipline of (1) having a plan or strategy for any one project, client or non-client, (2) meeting internal project deadlines no matter what, and (3) applying the will to work that plan and timetable. "Structure" is not just the hard process of getting things done. It's a frame of mind and a value which must be

Full post as published by What About Clients? on July 22, 2008 (boomark / email).