Stand in the Place Where You Are: Meet Less, Get More Out of It
No one likes meetings; and, that includes lawyers who manage other attorneys, or staff . I hear about it all the time: too many meetings, too much wasted time. Well, there are at least a couple of ways that law firms can reduce meetings and meeting time. The first is to lean into technology, to reduce the need for certain meetings . If you can delegate work effectively , and add workflows to softwares , you won’t need to hold as many status meetings (or, you may be able to eliminate them entirely) – because, you will always have a window into upcoming , completed and overdue tasks, via dashboards visible across a number of task management software s . Do it right . . . and, you’ll never have to host a case review meeting ever again. The second thing you can do is to change the kind of meetings you have . Instead of holding endless, agenda-less meetings, opt for perhaps the most stripped down - meeting option available . That would be the standup meeting . Standup
