Publisher's Synopsis
With his clear, humorous, and practical style, Sterling Miller takes you on a journey to explore how you can enhance and increase your productivity for yourself and the legal department. Inside the covers, he lays out lessons, advice, and practical tips on lawyer productivity based on a 30-plus-year legal career and almost 25 years spent in-house at four different legal departments. If your goal is to truly work smarter (and not harder), to get more done in the time you have, and to enhance the value of yourself and the legal team as productivity superstars, then this book is the go-to source for every legal department and a "must-have" on the shelf of every in-house lawyer anywhere in the world.
The Productive In-House Lawyer: Tips, Hacks, and the Art of Getting Things Done sets out, in great detail, a practical path to enhance and increase your productivity, for yourself and for the legal department as a whole, including:
- The good and bad of to-do lists
- Slaying the email monster
- Escaping meeting hell
- How to delegate properly
- Setting priorities
- The power of checklists
- How to focus your efforts properly
- Learning to say yes (and when to say no)
- The productive power of "little things"
- The promise (and pitfalls) of ChaptGPT and Generative AI
- How taking care of yourself--and your team--boosts productivity
