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Death Binders
Posted by Jennifer Gumbel on Oct 31st 2018
In her Motion to Organize weekly column, lawyer Jennifer Gumbel talks organization, productivity, and more.I’m a death lawyer. I do estate planning and probate law. My area of the law is the poster ch
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Analog Is Still Important in a Digital World
Posted by Jennifer Gumbel on Oct 24th 2018
In her Motion to Organize weekly column, lawyer Jennifer Gumbel talks organization, productivity, and more.Paperless. Digital. Online. Cloud Storage. E-Filing. The practice of law is involving less an
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Checklists for Paper Law
Posted by Jennifer Gumbel on Oct 17th 2018
In her Motion to Organize weekly column, lawyer Jennifer Gumbel talks organization, productivity, and more.Paper law doesn’t have the rush of trial law. In some matters, you don’t have the deadlines.
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Checklists for Trial Law
Posted by Jennifer Gumbel on Oct 10th 2018
In her Motion to Organize weekly column, lawyer Jennifer Gumbel talks organization, productivity, and more.I am a big fan of checklists. I have one for every type of law I handle. And I find them incr
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Tabs Are Nerdy, but Useful
Posted by Jennifer Gumbel on Oct 3rd 2018
In her Motion to Organize weekly column, lawyer Jennifer Gumbel talks organization, productivity, and more.Tabs are nerdy. I associate using tabs with hyper-organized people. The kind that have&n
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Your Documents’ Looks Can Be as Important as Content
Posted by Jennifer Gumbel on Sep 26th 2018
In her Motion to Organize weekly column, lawyer Jennifer Gumbel talks organization, productivity, and more.I’m a paper lawyer. When people come to see me, they’re probably at some point going to leave
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My Stapler, aka Good Equipment Helps Your Productivity
Posted by Jennifer Gumbel on Sep 19th 2018
In her Motion to Organize weekly column, lawyer Jennifer Gumbel talks organization, productivity, and more.
Call me Milton. I enjoy a good stapler. My favorite one in the whole building is the one i
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Organizing Your Office Is Important
Posted by Jennifer Gumbel on Sep 12th 2018
In her Motion to Organize weekly column, lawyer Jennifer Gumbel talks organization, productivity, and more.Are you the cliché? You know. The hard-working and hard-thinking attorney (or professor, or w
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ROYGBIV Organization
Posted by Jennifer Gumbel on Sep 5th 2018
In her Motion to Organize weekly column, lawyer Jennifer Gumbel talks organization, productivity, and more.Lawyers are known for staid colors. Maroon, Forest Green, Navy, are ubiquitous in our profess
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Organization for Trial Lawyers
Posted by Jennifer Gumbel on Aug 29th 2018
In her Motion to Organize weekly column, lawyer Jennifer Gumbel talks organization, productivity, and more.I’m a paper lawyer…and obsessed with how to make the paper easier to understand and utilize f
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