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  I had ended up on Wikipedia through a some link of some story that I was reading a couple days ago. Surfing, reading, clicking. I couldn’t even tell you what the original story I was reading. But I ended up on Janteloven, or Jante Law. Jante Law is: A pattern of group behavior towards [...]

Via Learning Fundamentals

  Starting last Wednesday my schedule has been incredibly busy. Between work, family, and fitness – something had to push – and it was any online activities. The weekend hit and spent I most of it running errands, more time with the family, hobbies, etc. It was almost with dread that I opened my RSS [...]

Roughly one year ago, I put up a post entitled Georgetown Law Dean, Millennials and Unrealistic Expectations at the ABA, that touched on the downward trends in the legal job market. (I also called a double-dip recession – holla) In the last post on Wal-Mart Efficiency with Neiman Marcus Feel, I detailed the increasing pressure [...]

The baby was crying again. It’s 5:15 AM this morning or 2 hours sitting on the tarmac in Boston or rushing through LaGuardia or flying over West Virginia or pulling into the driveway at home at 12:30 am. Mixed up schedules, cancelled flights, weather delays – all combine into sore feet, bland airport hallways, and a [...]

There is often a gap between the way things function and the way things ought to function. Law firms are bastions of doing things “the way they’ve always been done.”  Change is often not welcome within the legal field. See the continuous stream of complaints about legal writing [Hereunto, wherefore, premises considered, three (3) forms...] as an example. [...]

Final day of Productivity Week here at An Associates’ Mind. As such, I thought I’d take a moment to highlight a couple of older posts on productivity that you might have missed in the past: Remember Everything, Find Anything This was a post detailing my use of the Evernote software. It’s great stuff: cross-platform, cloud-based, [...]

As July begins, the dog days of summer are here. The oppressive heat means things sometimes slow down a bit. No better time than to review ways to improve your productivity. I’ll be highlighting websites and tools from around the web. Plus a couple items from Associate’s Mind as well. What is Legal Project Management? [...]

As July begins, the dog days of summer are here. The oppressive heat means things sometimes slow down a bit. No better time than to review ways to improve your productivity. I’ll be highlighting websites and tools from around the web. Plus a couple items from Associate’s Mind as well. Getting Started A large part [...]

Today kicks off Productivity Week here at Associate’s Mind. As July begins, the dog days of summer are here. The oppressive heat means things sometimes slow down a bit. No better time than to review ways to improve your productivity. I’ll be highlighting websites and tools from around the web. Plus,  a couple items from [...]