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Email Tips

Email can be a huge distraction. Some days, as soon as I'm "done" getting through my inbox, I have 20 more emails to go through. In the second edition of How to Do More In Less Time,we give you some tips on how to handle email, and in this month's newsletter I'm featuring two posts with accompanying videos on the topic of email, but from a bit of a different perspective - learning how to communicate better through email to encourage better responses:

Some news! It's been a busy start to the year for me. Among other things, I've started a mediation company with my husband and four other well-known lawyers in the area - Mediation Solutions of NY, LLC. We opened our doors in March and we have 14 mediators on board already. If you have a case in NY you want to mediate, please think of us!

I've had the privilege of doing several training webinars on LinkedIn for law firms with lawyers across the globe in the first part of the year, and I look forward to doing more in the upcoming months.

As always, I'm looking for your feedback. I'd love to get your comments on the videos, my columns, or ideas you have for future articles or newsletters. Let me know what you're thinking! Email me at [email protected].

Featured Video

5 Tips for Improving Your Email Messages

Did you know that email is one of the biggest time wasters? If you’re like me and you get hundreds of emails every day, this is probably no surprise to you.

If you want to be more productive with your email, you need to send better email messages, whether you’re originating the email or you’re replying to someone else’s message.

Watch the video right here or check it out - with its accompanying text- on the Lawyer Meltdown site: 5 Tips for Improving Your Email Messages. And while you're at it, see how one of my clients improved their work with clients by improving their email messages here .

Check out my YouTube Playlist on productivity for more even more videos.

Recent Columns

The current issue of the American Bar Association's Law Practice Division's Law Practice magazine is the Marketing issue. My column in this issue talks about how you can be more productive with your marketing by repurposing the work you are already doing. You can find the article here.

In case you missed it, my last column was all about Preventing Digital Burnout.

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Second Edition with new tips

The Second Edition of How to Do More in Less Time: The Complete Guide to Increasing Your Productivity and Improving Your Bottom Line, which I co-authored with Daniel J. Siegel, is now available from the American Bar Association. When we started writing the new edition, we thought it would be an easy task, but we found that even though the concepts in the book are evergreen, there was a lot of updating that we needed to do to be in line with the way lawyers practice today. And we added material on videoconferencing, working from home and more.

If you pick up a copy, I'd love to hear what you think about it

Planning Guide for Lawyers

Planning doesn't always have to happen at the beginning or the end of the year. Whether you’re a solo practitioner or you work for a firm, having a plan can make a huge difference to the success of your practice. The plan functions not only as a road map for your firm’s future, but also as a means to evaluate past performance, identify gaps and take action to improve. Having a plan helps you prioritize, focus your efforts, and manage your resources. This guide will walk you step-by-step through the process of creating your basic plan.

Get the Guide

Ideal Client Profile Workbook: Attracting and Keeping the Best Clients

My Ideal Client Profile workbook will take you step by step through the process of identifying your ideal clients and referral sources, creating profiles of your ideal clients, using the Ideal Client Profile as the basis for your marketing, and more.

$34.00

Make LinkedIn Work for You

My friend and colleague, Dennis Kennedy and I are proud to announce that our book, Make LinkedIn Work for You, A Practical Handbook for Lawyers and Other Legal Professionals is now available. The book is an adaptation of all of our previous work on LinkedIn, from webinars and presentations to articles and books. This book is different from what we've done before in that we published direct to Kindle first, and the book contains no screenshots.

You can get the book on Amazon.com in both paperback and Kindle versions.

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