Easy New Year’s Resolutions, Part 1: Resolve to Rest

1 January, 2015

Welcome to the New Year, the holy day for our patron saint Willpower. This is the time we look to willpower to fix our lives, including our work performance. But this year, we invite you to use that willpower for something other than outlandish tasks like giving up sugar or sculpting washboard abs. ...

Cut Down on Call Time with Filevine

16 December, 2014

Phone calls can bury any law firm. When we started the firm, it seemed simple–  You get a call, you return the call. Keep the client happy. But those of us who have seen firms grow know that is not the case. How can you cut down on call time as your firm grows? Call volume and client gro...

Axioms for Efficient Firms #1: You are Responsible Your Words

10 December, 2014

The Filevine Axioms cover some of our core beliefs. We believe that if you wish to be an efficient firm, then you must accept that you are responsible for your words. Taking on that responsibility is the first step. Grammarians report the latest tragedy in the War on Words. Because of frequent mi...

Accomplish More by Doing Less

4 December, 2014

Real, coordinated collaboration is key to accomplish more as an attorney. Every second that you spend doing something that someone on your staff can do is a second you’ve lost and paid for twice. The key is to identify the top level skills and capabilities of each staff member and to have them do wh...

Complete your cycles: Multi-Tasking is a Pyramid Scheme

1 December, 2014

Listen, we all need to drop the fallacy of multi-tasking. It does not work. Multi-tasking reduces productivity by diminishing focus. Cycles (tasks) need to be completed. Don’t start a task that you can’t finish. Don’t set a task that can’t be done in the time provided. Don’t start on another task w...

Accountability is the best policy

26 November, 2014

The best teams are those where accountability is the coin of the realm. When team members are responsible for what they say and do we can get rid of the “fly-ball” errors where all three go for the ball and none of them catch it. Task ambiguity is every team’s worst enemy. Real ...