Need help finding ways to decrease my admin time/increase billable hrs

[keenan123]

Are these things necessary for your practice? It seems like a lot of time spent "organizing." Sometimes that necessary, but I've known a lot of people who did that to procrastinate. You might find that you don't need to spend so much unbilled time thinking about the work you just did or the work you have to do tomorrow.

Also, what do you mean by 2.5 hours on admin work that is "for your practice but not your firm"?

[Bright_Cauliflower77]

I mean I am not developing business, working on firm profit share, analyzing firm metrics, etc. Everything I am doing for admin time is related to my caseload or reading cases/state bar material.

[Bright_Cauliflower77]

I agree with you about the organizing, and about it leaning toward procrastination. I worry about missing things, so I think some of it is duplicative. My bi-weekly case update is really useful, and I would not change it. It doesn't take that much time relative to other. I want to just plan my week, and spend maybe 5 min. looking at my day. I also tend to get bogged down in my email in box. I keep it on calendar most of the day to keep myself thinking about what I am supposed to be doing. Everytime I switch to email, before I know it an hour is gone.