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EMAIL MANAGEMENT FOR LAWYERS: Six Tips for Mastering Your Inbox

Email is an essential foundation of running your practice, but with the never-ending cycle of requests, questions, alerts, and notifications, your inbox can quickly distract you from focusing on higher-value work. Tackling your email can seem like a daunting task and getting your inbox to zero might appear unachievable.

That can change with the help of a strategy and a few technology tools and processes. A well-executed email management strategy ensures important emails are centrally stored and easily retrieved, saving substantial time, increasing productivity, and freeing up time for more meaningful work.

Here are six email management tips to help you master your inbox.

1. Take a time out.
2. Break the distraction cycle.
3. Develop a routine for batch processing email.
4. Set up processing folders.
5. Reduce email volume.
6. Implement an action process.