Ernie the Attorney

The new A.I. chatbot called ChatGPT gained immense popularity, reaching 100 million users in two months. This is faster than social media giants like TikTok and Instagram, which took nine...

The key to getting more work done well is documenting how each task should be carried out, step-by-step. Here are the steps to use to effectively document any workflow or...

What if there was a way to get more done, and to get it done more effectively? Lawyers who know how to use the 80/20 principle in their business practices...

In today’s business world, remote work and virtual collaboration have become more prevalent than ever before. With teams scattered in different locations, often across different time zones, law firms need...

As a lawyer, you want to help clients. One way to do this is with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). SOPs can make your work smoother, with fewer mistakes and faster...

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...