Shields: The holy gritty surprise of systems that set you free.

Ah, devil details: the discipline of getting organized, staying that way, and making things happen on schedule at work. At WAC? we’ve written about making structure a habit–see In Praise of Structure–but not nearly as much as we should. A few key office “systems, processes and checklists” are short, simple, written, intuitive, simple to remember, monitor and enforce, and both pro-client and pro-employee. Sound too abstract? See “Need to Get Control of Your Practice? Systems May Be The Key” at Allison Shields’ Legal Ease Blog.