Ernie the Attorney

As a business owner, as many lawyers are, you may have heard about the 80/20 principle, also known as the Pareto principle. This principle states that 80% of your results...

Law firms hold sensitive information about clients and their legal matters, making them a prime target for cyber attacks. As technology continues to play a larger role in the legal...

Charlie Munger is the first lawyer I knew who carefully studied “standard thinking errors.” He talked about them in his famous speech on The Psychology of Human Misjudgment. My last...

Cognitive psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky created a test of people’s tendency to get trapped by the conjunction fallacy. Here’s how the puzzle is presented. Linda is 31 years...

Email efficiency for lawyers may just boil down to using it less — which is not a crazy idea, by the way. Cal Newport has solid recommendations about curtailing its...

You may be a wizard in the courtroom, but understanding how to master time as a lawyer is the key to a long and profitable career.  So much of our...

Every business-minded lawyer should know how to create SOPs (“standard operating procedures”). SOPs are to a business what a CPU is to a computer. Think of them as the central...

Nearly every lawyer, from associate to partner, experiences lawyer burnout at some point in their career. To some extent, it seems that being a lawyer and stress go hand-in-hand. But...

A law firm, like any business, faces the problem of project management. But law firm project management is different from the types of project management systems that you’ll find in...

The legal profession would be nothing without access to information. So much of being a lawyer, or working in a law firm, is researching, writing, and communicating. And all of...

Law practice management for solo and small firm lawyers is an uphill battle. It’s hard enough to deliver high-quality legal services in an increasingly competitive environment. Add to that the...

Practicing law can be an incredibly rewarding profession in so many ways. And it can be financially rewarding. But money isn’t the most important thing. At least not to me....