Time Management for Attorneys: Simple Shifts to Reclaim Your Day

Time Management for Attorneys: Simple Shifts to Reclaim Your Day

Feeling like your day is constantly hijacked by interruptions, urgent requests, and work that spills into evenings or weekends?
Time management is a linchpin skill for building a successful law firm without letting it take over your life.

In this session, Mark Powers and Shawn McNalis share practical strategies to help attorneys move from reactive to proactive, including how to be more selective about the work you take on, protect focused work time with a Power Hour, and use simple planning tools to stay focused on what matters most.

You’ll also learn how to identify where your time is slipping away and what to do about it. Watch the replay, then take the Time Management Self-Assessment to get your personalized scorecard and 30-day action plan.
 

You'll will learn

how to:

Identify where your time is slipping away and what needs the most attention

Move from a reactive workday to a more proactive, intentional schedule

Protect focused work time and reduce costly interruptions

Prioritize the right clients, tasks, and activities so your time goes where it matters most

Meet Your Presenters

President, Shareholder, & Practice Advisor

Mark Powers

Mark Powers, President of Atticus, has been coaching attorneys for nearly 40 years. He is the founder and developer of the first personalized training program dedicated to teaching attorneys the lasting skills and habits necessary for practice development. These skills include strategic planning, client development, customer service, prioritization, time blocking, managing interruptions, financial management, staffing, and delegation. Mark is an internationally recognized expert in the legal field with a long list of accomplishments. He is a prominent public speaker who has presented to thousands of attorneys in multiple venues across the world, such as The American Bar Association and The Law Society of Scotland. He has also spoken to bar associations in Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New York, South Carolina, and Texas, and has delivered presentations to law organizations such as The Fund, Wyoming Trial Lawyers, the Dallas INBLF, and Tennessee Trial Lawyers.

Shareholder, Practice Advisor Trainer, & Curriculum Director

Shawn McNalis

Shawn McNalis is a former Imagineer with the Walt Disney Company and credits her 15-year career with Disney for her creative, collaborative approach to advising attorneys. In partnership with Mark Powers for 25 years, Shawn is a senior practice advisor, director of curriculum, and a trainer for Atticus. With Mark, she co-authored The Making of a Rainmaker, commissioned and published by the Florida Bar in 1995, and Time Management for Attorneys: A Lawyer’s Guide to Decreasing Stress, Eliminating Interruptions & Getting Home on Time, published in conjunction with the ABA in 2008, and in 2009, How Good Attorneys Become Great Rainmakers: A Breakthrough Referral Marketing Process and Hire Slow, Fire Fast. In 2020 she wrote, Cashflow and Profitability: What Law School Didn’t Teach You About Running A Successful Law Firm. A former columnist for Lawyer’s USA, Shawn has authored and co-authored numerous articles on law practice management that have appeared in the ABA’s Law Practice Management Magazine, Journal of the Association of Legal Administrators, ABA Family Law Section Magazine, The Florida Bar News, The Lawyer’s Competitive Edge, The Florida Bar Workers Compensation Section Journal, Family Lawyer Magazine, Attorneys At Work, and Massachusetts Bar Journal, among many others.

Create more focus, reduce reactive work and reclaim control of your day

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