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activities are completely incompatible with checking your e-mail. Examples of such activities are driving a car, skiing down a mountainside, and enjoying intimacy with your lover. (I’d be more graphic, but this is a family magazine.)
Do It Now When something comes to you in the office that needs
attention, just do it. Don’t wait for the last minute. Doing so causes stress. You’re still going to have to do whatever this task is. When the interrogatories arrive, scan them in and send them to the client right away. Keeping them on your desk or in the file does not get you to the merits of the case, which is closely associated with the pay day. When a court scheduling order says that a particular action is due on a particular day, the court does not by that mean that you are only permitted to do it at the last minute. Te reality is that when a Plaintiff’s attorney answers a set of interrogatories it is frequently more helpful to the Plaintiff’s attorney than to the defense attorney. Why? Because it helps to get your thoughts together, to amass the evidence, and to get information that you need and don’t have, and also to help you understand the weak points in the case. You will find that never takes as long to do something that you’re putting off as you think it will do.
12 Trial Reporter / Spring 2010 Testifying Expert Location Healthcare Delivery Evaluation Medical Record Organization
Do Organize Te key to stress free productivity is organization. You
need to identify everything that has to be done on each case, whether now, tomorrow or later, and whether the matter is large, small or in between, and to organize these things into a logical system that is somewhere else other than in your head. If you write these “to do” lists on paper rather than try to rely on your memory it is safer and substantially less stressful. If something is written down on a piece of paper on your desk on your “to do list” you will learn not to wake up in the middle of the night wondering if you have forgotten something. Maintaining and using a daily “to do list” can help you
feel as if you are in control. You can identify items on your list as matters which require immediate attention, attention during the short term, or attention next month. Te reality is that you can only do one thing at a time. If you’re working on Mr. A’s case you are ignoring all of the other matters in your office. Prioritizing and learning to juggle—knowing what to do first– is probably the hardest challenge in the practice of law.
Delegating to your paralegal or secretary is another way
to reduce stress. You still have to keep these matters on your to do list because you have to supervise the person who has been delegated to do the work. However, there is a chance
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