Where does all your time go?

So many things to do, so little time. For a profession with a long tradition of recording time task-by-task as the day goes on, we still seem to lose time during the workday. Every lawyer has had the experience of working hard all day and noticing completed time sheets total far less than hours worked.

David Whelan does a review of three time-tracking products in his "Lost in Time" piece in Law Technology News. I've been hearing a lot lately about Chrometa, one of a class of these programs that can record everything you do on your computer for help in recovering lost billable time. It was good to learn more about Chrometa, along with Nestersoft's Worktime and Black Hill Software's TimeSprite.

Sure it will take you some more time to review the data from these, but if you just capture an additional half hour of billable time (or a single completed task under an alternative billing mode) each day, it would be a nice return on the review time.

(And it was good to hear from David Whelan, too. You can read more of his work at his site. He is someone we never should have exported to Canada!)

It's about Time! Websites dealing with time.

In our Sites for Sore Eyes column this month, Courtney Kennaday and I cover Websites having to do with time. We hope you can make time to read it. *rimshot* But seriously, folks, there are times you need to know how to determine the time anywhere. Now you can.

Just Too Busy

Here are a few words of wisdom on "Why Are We So Busy?" by Robert Harris. These points are very brief so you do have time to read them.

Do you have the time?

My feature article in the August 13, 2005 Oklahoma Bar Journal was "Do You Have the Time? A Few Thoughts About Time Management  for Attorneys." It was inspired in part by a great program on time management given by Tahlequah, OK attorney Tery DeShong at our Oklahoma Bar Solo and Small Firm Conference. Tery's much better at living time management principles than me. Most lawyers are well aware of the need to efficiently use time and probably do a better job in this area than they think they do. But I do think that is one of these topics that we all need refreshers on from time to time. It's short so you can read it in a brief time.