Summary
In this episode, Zinda Law Group CEO and founder, Jack Zinda talks about his personal strategy for staying sane while running a firm and practicing law.
Discussed in this Episode:
- Don’t outwork the problem
- Areas of focus
- What am I trying to achieve?
- Mapping out your time
- Establishing hard edges
Don’t Outwork the Problem
This is the most common and obvious way to keep yourself from burning out or cutting corners. You may be able to work 80 hour weeks, but eventually it’s going to catch up with you in the form of mistakes, exhaustion and tension with family and friends.
Areas of Focus
You have a finite amount of time to devote to your work. Once you’ve established a healthy work-life balance, you’ll then need to find ways to be more effective and efficient. Mapping out your areas of focus will go a long way to ensuring keeping yourself on track.
What Am I Trying to Achieve?
Look at the long-term goals of your practice and make sure that they line up with how your practice is currently being run. Is there a clear path? Or do you need to tweak your role to better suit the business?
Mapping Out Your Time
Beyond the areas of focus, it’s also important to map out the rest of your time to ensure that you feel satisfied with your role. For example, Jack loves to practice law and tries to make sure that is working on law-based tasks a third of the time.
Establishing Hard Edges
Once you’ve mapped everything out, now you have to follow through. Scheduling everything each week, including time when you’re just working alone is important. If you fail to adhere to the schedule, the system will fail. Finally, look back each month and inventory your work. What areas need to be tweaked?
Links:
You can reach Jack at:
jz@zindalaw.com
512-246-2224
What is The Effective Lawyer?
The Effective Lawyer teaches ambitious trial lawyers how to grow their skills and create a prosperous law firm. Using lessons learned by accomplished attorneys from around the country, we discuss lessons learned through their trials and tribulations. Our discussions cover a vast range of topics sought out by attorneys looking for advice, from depositions to how to market your law firm.
The show is hosted by Jack Zinda, Founder and Senior Trial Lawyer at Zinda Law Group. In less than 15 years, Jack and his team have grown Zinda Law Group from 3 attorneys to over 30, spanning several states and handling a variety of personal injury cases from gas explosions to truck accidents.
Jack and his guests share their knowledge and skills that they’ve acquired through the process of building one of the most successful plaintiff’s law firms in the country.
In each show we cover a new topic that an ambitious attorney would want to better understand, while providing practical skills to improve their legal practice.
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