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"Email Management Tips for Lawyers"

Posted by Allison Shields: "Email management seems to be a hot topic lately. David Bilinsky's Thoughtful Legal Management blog contained his suggestions for email management in a post earlier this month entitled simply Email Management. His post specifically addresses the issue of what to do to archive emails when a file has been closed.

Jim Calloways' Law Practice Tips blog also includes some great recent posts on email management. For example, consider liberally using unsubscribe to manage the flood of email. Even better, read Jim's post on Tips for Using Outlook Tasks to Clear Your Inbox. As Jim points out, Outlook 2007 does a much better job at this than earlier versions of Outlook do. Jim also notes that many of the emails we 'store' in our Inboxes are emails that act as reminders of tasks. Rather than letting them pile up (and get lost) in your email inbox, he recommends the drag and drop method to place the message into a task - setting a date only where necessary - and thereby clearing out the inbox clutter.

Don't feel like reading more about email management? For step by step tips for how to save emails to a client file, see this step by step email management screencast by Lawyerist, or listen to the podcast about email management from Adriana Linares and Debbie Foster on Legal Talk Network.

Here are some of my own email management tips:...

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Source: Legal Ease Blog, 20 August 2009

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on August 21, 2009 (boomark / email).