Last week we featured Karen’s monthly legal writing tip. And she really brought her training as a professional editor to the game, providing simple and clear advice on how to write for the way people ...

Today is our once-a-month legal writing tip and this one is going to change the way you handle every single message you write. You need to write for the way people read. And don't miss my new freebie....

This week, in the true spirit of Halloween, we’re talking about zombies…and billable hours. As my friend Peter Carayiannis says, “The billable hour is a zombie…We can’t actually kill it. Every time yo...

Today we’re going to introduce you to the most common objection lawyers give to process improvement—and the three questions you can use to overcome it.

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Gimbal’s Process Improvement Tip of the Week: Picking the Best Project Team

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Karen and I are just back from the west coast, where we started a new client engagement  ...

Hello and welcome back to Gimbal’s Tip of the Week — where WE provide YOU practical suggestions on to build a more profitable and productive law practice. And no, you definitely don’t need to be an at...

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Do you find it hard tracking the status of all your open matters? Would you like to be able to see, in a glance:

• which matter
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Yes, sometimes less really is more.

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Many of the tasks we do on a daily basis don’t add any value. In fact, they take up valuable time and preven...

When we started our company, we thought long and hard about a name. We knew exactly what we wanted to do for professional service firms: guide them through the changes required to remain competitive a...

For more than 20 years as a lawyer, I’ve listened to my colleagues–corporate counsel and private practitioners alike–discussing the lawyer-client relationship and the direction the legal profession is...