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6 Hacks to Crush Anxiety in Legal Writing

6 Hacks to Crush Anxiety in Legal Writing

Summer associates and newer lawyers can relate to this situation: your supervisor hands you a writing assignment, and you face a deadline that’s a week or so away. At the moment the deadline feels remote. But you know that legal writing takes a lot longer than any writing you’ve done before and that you should get started now. But you can’t. Why is that?

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Strategies for Successfully Working From Home

Strategies for Successfully Working From Home

After the last 18 months, many of our work from home practices could use some fine tuning, particularly if you plan to work from home at least part-time for the foreseeable future. Otherwise, work can easily invade your entire home and every waking moment. Likewise, it can be easy to keep up bad habits that can leave you feeling inefficient and ineffective. In this week’s post, Chelsea B. Ashworth shares some reminders and suggestions for working from home effectively and efficiently.

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10 Strategies to Keep Productive & Positive During a Crisis

10 Strategies to Keep Productive & Positive During a Crisis

Almost exactly 6 months ago — March 26 — we shared these 10 Strategies to Keep Productive & Positive During a Crisis. We’ve since heard from many readers how helpful they’ve been, so we’re sharing them again today in case you missed it the first time or could use a reminder.

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10 Strategies to Keep Productive & Positive During a Crisis

10 Strategies to Keep Productive & Positive During a Crisis

I was recently on a panel asked to share strategies for keeping productive and positive during a crisis. (For the entire discussion on “Motivation and Resilience – Key Thoughts in a Complex World,” click here to listen.) Some of the ideas my fellow panelists and I shared might be helpful to you.

To be clear, we certainly don’t want to minimize the current – or any – crisis. If you are in the middle of a life and death crisis, these strategies will be of very limited use, and reaching out to a therapist or other support will be more helpful. But for others, I hope these ten strategies can help you keep productive and positive.

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Habits Habits

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Trying to adopt new habits and finding it harder than you expected?  In just 60 seconds, this week’s ApochroMinute explains why, and how you can move forward. 

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