Practice Management
Practice Management Tip 3: Managing your time
Understand Your Workload
As a junior lawyer, managing your time effectively is crucial since your priorities are often dictated by others without much consistency. Staying silent or accepting these inconsistencies can negatively impact the client, the firm and yourself. Have a clear and objective understanding of your workload.
Prioritising Tasks
Begin by clearly identifying your responsibilities through a daily to-do list. Recognise that tasks vary in significance; some are major long-term projects while others are routine activities such as writing emails and organising meetings. Assess the priority of these tasks based on urgency and importance as follows:
- - urgent and important
- - urgent but not important
- - important but not urgent
- - neither urgent nor important
Managing Long and Difficult Tasks
Long or difficult tasks, like major trials or takeovers, will dominate your workload. Break these jobs into manageable units, set targets for each part, and include buffer time for delays.
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