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"All In Good Time"

This post was written by Julie A. Fleming: "One of the top concerns for most lawyers is time management.  We all have so much to accomplish in so little time, and it often seems that we're always trying to cram more activities (whether professional or personal) into the non-negotiable 168 hours we have each week.  Most of my coaching clients bring time management issues to the table at some point, and time pressures are largely responsible for the high levels of stress that many lawyers face.

One distinction, "urgent" versus "important," can form the basis for effective time management.  Urgent vs. important is a simple distinction that applies equally to the substance of a lawyer's work as well as to practice or career management.  Stephen Covey has written about time use and devised a four-quadrant chart to help us judge where we spend most of our time:...

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Source: Life at the Bar, 6 January 2010

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Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on January 07, 2010 (boomark / email).