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"Lawyers Can Cure Analysis Paralysis with the 70% Solution"

This post was written by Allison Shields: "Lawyers are often afflicted by what some have called "analysis paralysis" and others simply call perfectionism. Lawyers are taught to spot issues, look for loopholes and seek out the weak or vulnerable parts of an argument, a document or a transaction. While this training may serve lawyers in some parts of their practices, it does not serve the lawyer as business owner or innovator.

Lawyers who run their firms run the risk of getting stuck and falling behind the competition if they give in to too much analysis paralysis and fall victim to the urge to make everything perfect before moving on. Nothing is, or is likely to ever be, perfect..."

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Source: Lawyerist.com, 26 April 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 April 26, 2010 (boomark / email).