In this episode, it is spring cleaning time. After a long winter of accumulating clutter, is it time to open up the windows of our law practice and see what we actually need and what we might get rid of; what is vital to our practices, and what is no longer serving us.

If you have stacks of paper on your desk, or if you spend precious minutes each day looking for particular files on your computer, your practice could use a good cleaning. Grab a broom, a trash bag, and your client list, and let’s get cleaning.

I have noticed more and more solo and small firm lawyers starting to use scheduling programs. You know, the link they send you that takes you to a webpage with their calendar, where you can pick a day and time to meet with them or have a phone call or whatever you are trying to connect with them about. My barber uses a scheduling program, and it works great for him.

While I think that using a scheduling program in your law practice can have benefits, it’s just not for me. Having a practice that works for me is important, and part of that is being able to control my calendar.

In this episode I talk about some of these benefits and explain why I won’t use a scheduling program myself. I would love to hear from you whether you use a scheduling program in your law practice and why or why not. You can send an email to brad@newmodernlawyer.com and let me know.

This episode is titled “Lessons from a broken website” because I want to talk about some of the things I am learning about myself right now, and things I personally need to work on internally. As I record this episode the website for my New Modern Lawyer is down. If you type in the address in your browser, you get some sort of ominous-looking error message. And while it is not a situation I would have chosen, I am actually very grateful it has happened, because of the lessons I am learning from it.

I am a believer that what is most personal is most general, meaning that if one person has a particular problem, then there are many others out there experiencing the same problem. So my hope with this episode is that the lessons I am learning from this experience are lessons that you will be able to take apply to your own life.