We are excited to publish our second episode of The Lawyer Coach’s Lunch Bites!
TLC Lunch Bites are short videos on a variety of topics that come up commonly in coaching conversations with lawyers. These short videos provide an opportunity
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Attorney With a Life focuses on professional development and practice management for lawyers. The blog covers topics such as improving efficiency and productivity through self-awareness, managing billable hours effectively, enhancing communication skills to handle difficult conversations, and organizing both physical and digital workspaces. It also offers guidance on planning and prioritizing work to achieve better work-life integration. The content is designed to help legal professionals develop practical skills for running their practices more smoothly and advancing their careers through coaching insights and actionable strategies.
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Billable Hours Got You Down? Start the New Year with a Refresh
By Allison Wolf
Alex said with a sigh, “January is like Groundhog Day with billable hours reset to zero, and it all starts over.”
This wasn’t the first time I had heard this said, nor the third. January comes with this sense of…
TLC Lunch Bites: Shifting from Avoidance to Productive Conversations
We are excited to launch episode one of The Lawyer Coach’s Lunch Bites!
TLC Lunch Bites are short videos on a variety of topics that come up commonly in coaching conversations with lawyers. These short videos provide an opportunity to…
Get in the Driver’s Seat of Your Practice: Part 4 – Planning
We have all heard people say ‘work smarter, not harder,’ but how do we do this?
A great way to work smarter is to plan better. Improving your planning abilities can increase your efficiency and productivity.
One of my clients,…
Get in the Driver’s Seat of Your Practice: Part 3 – Ordering
Are you an organized person?
A client of mine, let’s call him Ben, was feeling anxious when we first met. He admitted to not being the most organized person even though he was many years into his practice. He had…
Get in the Driver’s Seat of Your Practice: Part 2 – Aligning
You’ve probably heard a variation of the saying ‘work with your brain, not against it’.
Have you actively put this into practice?
One of my clients, let’s call her Jenny, was getting through her workdays without ever thinking about how…
Get in the Driver’s Seat of Your Practice: Part 1 – Awareness
A client of mine, let’s call him Ken, felt burnt out. He kept taking on files and clients even though he was already feeling overwhelmed. This led to many urgent matters with overlapping deadlines.
When he told me about this,…
Make a strong start to the fall
Did you start this week with a feeling of tension in your belly or a tightness in your shoulders?
Or was it worse? A feeling of dread, accompanied by the thought of “how am I going to get it all…
Balance the Scales: Service vs Servitude™
By Allison Wolf
The law is a helping profession. Outsiders might scoff, but all of us in the profession know this to be so.
Ask a thousand lawyers what they value about their work, and most will draw a connection to helping. One…
Values, Culture, and the Flourishing Law Firm
By Allison Wolf
When I started my career in legal services in the late 1990s, law firm culture was something amorphous that no one quite had a handle on. Prospective hires would often ask what the law firm culture was like and the…