How to Hack Your Time
Lawyer, Advice, Time Management Rachel Spink Lawyer, Advice, Time Management Rachel Spink

How to Hack Your Time

Recently in Female Lawyers’ Club, we were fortunate enough to have the wonderful Vikki Yaffe talk to us about “How to hack your time.”

 

I commented at the start of the session that, a lot of the time, we don’t necessarily have a time management issue – we just have too many things to do. I think this is particularly the case in the law where very often we can’t shortcut things: if we bill by the hour, we have to physically spend a fixed amount of time working on things in order for us to achieve our targets or get paid. How very 19th century!

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What I Wish I’d Known When I Started Out
Lawyer, Equality, Kindness, Networking, Advice Rachel Spink Lawyer, Equality, Kindness, Networking, Advice Rachel Spink

What I Wish I’d Known When I Started Out

A couple of weeks ago, I asked this question on LinkedIn: 

“If you’re a senior female lawyer, can you let me know:

What is the one thing you wished you’d known earlier in your career?”

I received replies from many women across various roles and firms, and I am enormously grateful to those of you who took the time to reply. I have kept the replies anonymous as promised.

I have added my own thoughts at the end of the blog.

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