Practice management for lawyers should be based on the same principles that any successful modern business uses.
The following books are the ones that have helped millions of successful businesses, including law firms.
Top Recommended Books
- Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less, by Michael Hyatt
- The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy, by Chris Bailey
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, by Carol Dweck
- Wink – A Modern Day Parable of Wealth Beyond Words, by Roger Hamilton
- The Effective Executive, by Peter Drucker
- The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
- The Four Hour Workweek, by Tim Ferriss
- Super Thinking: Make Better Decisions with Mental Models, by Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann
- The 80/20 Principle, by Richard Koch (also check out this free weekly newsletter on the 80/20 principle)
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, by Greg McKeown (uncommonly effective practice management for lawyers in the modern era)
- Brain Rules, by John Medina
- Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, by Joshua Foer
- Information Anxiety 2, by Richard Saul Wurman
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, by Cal Newport
- A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload, by Cal Newport
- Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, by Nir Eyal
- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, by James Clear
- The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It, by Michael Gerber
- Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business, by Gino Wickman
- Rework: Change the Way You Work Forever, by Jason Fried
- Remote: Office Not Required, by Jason Fried
- It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work, by Jason Fried
- The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, Atul Gawande
- Work The System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less, by Sam Carpenter
- The Ultimate Law Firm, by Craig Kahn (a concise primer on effective practice management for lawyers)
- The Power of A System, by John Fisher
- Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts, by Annie Duke
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, by Robert Cialdini
- Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade, by Robert Cialdini
P.S. If you're a practicing lawyer, check out this Law Practice Assessment . After answering a few questions, you'll get detailed recommendations for improving five key areas of your practice.
