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"Lawyers: Get Punctual"

This is a guest post written by Bill Jawitz: "Many lawyers struggle with punctuality, but what percentage of the time that we're late for a meeting or a phone call is it truly, fully, outside of our control? Certainly it's very rarely. The vast majority of the time that we fail to be punctual, it's because we don't plan well enough. We didn't leave early enough for our destination. We didn't enforce time boundaries earlier in the day. Or we didn't set expectations properly. (Or some other reason over which we could have exercised control but didn't.)...

And lest the question go unasked: Why should lawyers strive to be on time with clients, prospects, fellow counsel and staff? Because being punctual builds credibility and trust. Being punctual also builds your confidence to ask and expect it of others. Conversely, being late creates a negative external impression in people outside of your office, and it lowers morale among your colleagues and staff when they can't trust your word about when you'll be somewhere or when a meeting will start...

Here are four tips to help you become more punctual:..."

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Source: Lawyerist.com, 25 June 2010. © 2007-2010 Lawyerist Media, LLC. Reproduced with permission of the site editor, Sam Glover.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on June 25, 2010 (boomark / email).