Law Office Mental Health Policies for Well Known & Our "Other" Addictions
Alcoholism, substance abuse and depression; these three afflictions usually receive the most attention at CLE programs and in legal publications. This makes sense in light of the continuing (and alarming) rise in the numbers of attorneys suffering with these impairments. What we don’t hear as much about, statistically or otherwise, are the more subtle impairments [...]
Telecommuting Cost Savings @ Cisco
Further to my prior post re tips on handling co-workers who are disgruntled over their telecommuting peers (http://bit.ly/Frk8W), I just found this blog (http://bit.ly/Jz09T)on tech giant, Cisco’s, telecommuting cost savings and other data. Let me know what experiences your office has had with telecommuting…allowed, not allowed, cost savings data, other benefits, disadvantage? Thx and have [...]
Telecommuting & Disgruntled Co-Workers
Good Afternoon…here’s an informative (quick reading) blog post on telecommuting: http://bit.ly/ZFF0N entitled: “Telecommuting: How to Approach Your Boss.” A few words re my two cents worth on this subject….it’s been my experience that it’s often more difficult dealing with disgruntled co-workers who are NOT telecommuting than it is to convince your employer to let you [...]
My Personal Crusade to Cease All Use of the Word "Non-lawyer!"
A couple of Twitter “tweets” I saw today referenced a lawyer disciplined for allowing “non-lawyers” to do something that only a licensed attorney should have done. I really dislike the “n-l” word so suggested in my reply “tweet” that surely we could all find more respectful words to use when referring to someone who does [...]
Maximizing Our CLE Dollars/Minimizing Seminar Syndrome Shame!
Do you suffer from ‘seminar syndrome shame’? As Republished in: St. Louis Daily Record & St. Louis Countian , Oct 9, 2008 by Nancy Byerly Jones Most of us have suffered from seminar syndrome shame (“SSS”) — the “lost opportunity disease” that occurs when we expend valuable time and money on educational seminars only to [...]
Vacation Policies Mirror a Law Firm's/Company's Culture
Vacation policies and management’s attitudes toward employee vacations, personal or sick leave say everything about an office’s morale, culture and quality of leadership. Click here for my Lawyers USA column on this subject….written originally in 2002, but still so very true and relevant in today’s business climate. Bottom line…atttorneys, business owners, managers, and employees who [...]
Post Work Day Ramblings….
This is a brand new blog and hopefully we will soon get a dialogue going on whatever interests we share….today, I started sending out what I call “ProgressBuster” tips on Twitter (@lawbusinesstips). These will include those things I’ve seen through the years (over and over unfotunately) as a law office/business consultant that hurt (and often [...]
