Time Management for Lawyers: Making Every Six Minutes Count is a comprehensive guide designed to help legal professionals take control of their time and enhance both productivity and wellbeing. In a fast-paced and high-pressure profession, time management is the key to thriving – not just surviving. This book explores practical strategies for managing overwhelming caseloads, maintaining a healthy work–life balance, and preventing burnout. It covers the latest technological influences, including how AI is reshaping how lawyers manage time and tasks, while also addressing the mental and emotional challenges of working in law.

From optimising focus to managing client demands and avoiding distractions, this book helps lawyers achieve peak performance while still leaving room for creativity, innovation, and personal wellbeing. With expert advice on delegation, prioritisation and setting clear goals, Time Management for Lawyers: Making Every Six Minutes Count equips you with the tools to reclaim your time and thrive in your legal career.

Nikki Alderson
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikkialdersoncoaching/
https://nikkialdersoncoaching.com/

Nikki Alderson is an international talent retention and women’s leadership specialist, TEDx and keynote speaker, coach, bestselling author of Raising the Bar: Empowering female lawyers through coaching, and former criminal barrister with 19 years’ experience. Nikki supports law firms, barristers’ Chambers, and other legal organizations to attract, retain, and elevate female talent and empowers female lawyers and other professionals to achieve career ambitions. Nikki specializes in three areas – women’s leadership, enhanced career break return and new working parent support, and workplace resilience, confidence, and wellbeing. Although Nikki’s work focuses predominantly on one-to-one coaching within the workplace, she also delivers motivational keynote speeches and bespoke workshops, seminars and webinars on a variety of topics, such as Breaking Barriers to being your Best, Return and Rise, Finding Time to Have it All, and Workplace Wellbeing.

Alice Boullier de Branche
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alice-boullier-de-branche-53a23098/

Alice Boullier de Branche is senior HR manager in the Paris HR team at A&O Shearman. She graduated from business school (ESSEC Global BBA) and has a master’s degree in Sociology (Paris VII). Alice has been working on HR matters at A&O Shearman for over ten years. She joined A&O to work on training and development, then later specialized in providing human resources support to the fee earners population. She is especially engaged in areas such as performance evaluation, compensation strategies, recruitment, retention, and talent development, as well as wellbeing, diversity, and inclusion initiatives. Alice has contributed to a book produced for the International Bar Association by Globe Law & Business, Talent in the Legal Profession.

Rachel Brushfield
https://www.linkedin.com/in/energiseliberateyourtalent/
https://energiselegal.com/portfolio/rachel-brushfield-founder/

Rachel Brushfield is “The Talent Liberator”™®, and founder of EnergiseLegal, established in 1996. An experienced career strategist and coach with a marketing and brand strategy career heritage, Rachel helps mid-career lawyers overcome actual and perceived blocks and create an uplifting career breakthrough at major career crossroads. Women lawyers, portfolio careers, personal branding, and consultant lawyers are specialisms. Content creation projects include career webinars for the Law Society and D+I content for LexisNexis. Rachel is a published author in multiple topics including marketing, career management, professional development, and talent management. A seasoned events professional, Rachel has done multiple events for women lawyer networks including the Law Society UK, the Law Society Northern Ireland, Society of English and American Lawyers (SEAL), American Women Lawyers in London (AWLL), and Women in the Law (WITL).

Karen Dunn Skinner
https://www.linkedin.com/in/karendunnskinner/
https://www.leanlegal.academy/

Karen Dunn Skinner coaches legal professionals around the world to be as great at running their businesses as they are at practicing law. She believes lawyers can have it all – a thriving practice and a life they love. After more than 20 years as a lawyer, she co-founded Gimbal Consulting with her partner, David. Karen is a pioneer in legal process improvement, the author of The Power Zone Playbook for Lawyers, and a sought-after speaker and consultant. She’s a global advisor to the International Institute of Legal Project Management and a fellow of the College of Law Practice Management. Karen lives in Montreal, where she and David have raised two children and built a fulfilling life they love. In the last few years, she’s rediscovered painting and finds tremendous inspiration when she’s hiking and skiing at Tremblant or paddling her kayak on the St Lawrence River. Her art has given her a whole new understanding of the relationship between creativity, productivity, and happiness.

Joanna Gaudoin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joannagaudoin/

Joanna Gaudoin helps professional services firms and their people take a structured and skilled approach to business development. Many professionals find winning and retaining challenging, yet it’s a core part of their role. Joanna helps individuals and firms build clarity, confidence, and capability to develop and retain valuable client relationships. Through her company, ClientWise, Joanna works to reduce over-reliance on a few individuals bringing in work and supports a more consistent, embedded approach to growth. Her work spans consultancy, facilitation, and training through firm-wide programs, targeted workshops, and individual coaching. Her proven framework, The 5 Ps of Business Development©, underpins all her work. Joanna has 14+ years of experience with law firms, accountants, banks, and other professional services. She previously worked in brand marketing and consultancy. She's an experienced and engaging speaker and author of Getting On: Making work work, and co-author of two other Globe Law and Business titles, Business Development for Women Lawyers and Essential Reads for the Modern Lawyer.

Dr Todd Hutchison
https://www.linkedin.com/in/drtoddhutchison/
https://www.toddhutchison.com.au/

Dr Todd Hutchison is an international bestselling author, and listed in the Who’s Who of Business in Australia. He is the global chairman of the International Institute of Legal Project Management (IILPM), which has legal practitioner graduates in 65 countries. He is a consultant with commercial law firm Balfour Meagher, an adjunct associate professor (Business and Law) at Edith Cowan University, and teaches business law, contract law, and project management in an MBA program. His fascination with high performance led to his studies in behavioral science and he has personally led projects in over 260 organizations across 21 countries. He completed a doctorate in forensics and legal project management, and works as a digital forensic expert witness in Supreme Court cases across Australia, specializing in homicide and major crime matters.

Jean-Baptiste Lebelle
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jean-baptiste-lebelle-2789816a/

Jean-Baptiste Lebelle is the HR director of A&O Shearman’s Paris office. He holds a law degree from Paris II Assas and graduated from Sciences Po Paris. Jean-Baptiste has taught at the Sorbonne and HEC on recruitment, retention, and career management in law firms. He has over 25 years of HR experience in the consulting sector and is especially engaged in topics related to compensation policies, recruitment, talent retention, inclusion, and wellbeing applied to law firms. He switched from headhunting for law firms to HR, becoming PWC Legal’s HR director for Paris before A&O. Jean-Baptiste Lebelle has contributed to several books produced for the International Bar Association by Globe Law & Business.

Anna Marra
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-marra-5b651531/
https://www.annamarra.es/

Anna Marra is an Italian consultant and trainer, based in Spain, specializing in strategic and operational legal project management for law firms and corporate legal departments. She graduated in Law from the University of Milan, has been a member of the Varese Bar Association since 2004, and holds a Master’s degree in International Affairs from the Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) in Milan. She served as the executive director of Transparency International Italy, contributing to educational and legislative initiatives on ethics and anti-corruption. Since 2006, she has focused on legal project management, merging her legal expertise with project methodologies to introduce innovative approaches in legal matter management, becoming an international reference in this field. Anna is deputy chair of the International Institute of Legal Project Management (IILPM) and an advisor for the Global LegalTech Hub. She has authored books such as Legal Project Management: Techniques to Innovate in the Legal Market (2012) and LPM Bites – Purpose-Driven Management: A Humanistic Approach to Legal Project Management (2025). As the director of various international open and on-demand courses on legal project management and legal productivity, she founded the LPM Focused Hub in 2023 for legal professionals interested in new work frameworks, productivity, efficiency, and sustainability in legal practice.

Gary Miles
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-miles-freedom/
https://www.garymiles.net/

Gary Miles, a seasoned law practitioner for over four decades, has dedicated his career to litigation and, more recently, family law. As the managing member of Huesman, Jones, and Miles in Maryland for over three decades, his diverse experience includes being a trial lawyer, managing partner, author, leader, podcaster, coach, and entrepreneur. His true passion lies in helping lawyers solve their problems and guiding them toward liberation from the hurdles that hold them back. Having experienced the pressures inherent in the legal profession, Gary is deeply committed to his clients’ success and fulfilment. He equips them with practical tools to overcome the obstacles they face, enabling them to achieve the success and freedom they aspire to in their law practices. Gary's influence extends beyond the courtroom. He hosts a popular, highly-rated podcast, The Free Lawyer, with two weekly episodes, and is the author of the insightful book Breaking Free. These platforms allow him to share his knowledge and experience with a broader audience.

Catrin Mills
https://www.linkedin.com/in/catrin-mills-34484881/

Catrin Mills has over 25 years’ experience as a practicing solicitor specializing in employment law. Catrin trained with a City firm before pursuing her career outside London to become a partner in Hertford. Catrin has recently returned to private practice having spent a period in-house with a leading independent school where she became chief operating officer. Catrin has always had a keen interest in people management and especially how individual productivity and staff engagement contribute to the success of an organization. She now advises both employers and employees on all aspects of employment law, and particularly enjoys supporting employer clients with people strategy.

Sarah Murphy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-murphy-96503b22/
https://www.clio.com/

Sarah Murphy is the general manager of Clio International, overseeing EMEA, APAC, and Canada for Clio, the global leader in legal technology. With a strong emphasis on innovation, she leads and inspires her teams, ensuring Clio remains at the forefront of transforming the legal experience across these diverse regions. Sarah’s extensive career spans various industries, including finance, insurance, telecommunications, and legal technology. This diverse expertise enables her to empower legal professionals of all backgrounds to overcome the challenges of running successful law firms. Driven by her passion for building and scaling high-growth teams, Sarah combines a commitment to innovation with a focus on customer success and exploring new markets where Clio can make a significant impact. As the driving force behind Clio’s expansion across EMEA, APAC and beyond, Sarah unlocks untapped opportunities and steers Clio towards continued success. Under her leadership, Clio consistently sets new standards of excellence and innovation throughout the region.

David Skinner
https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-skinner-458b24/
https://www.leanlegal.academy/

David Skinner believes lawyers can have it all – a thriving practice and a life they love. The co-founder of Gimbal Consulting and the LeanLegal® Academy, he’s a Lean Six Sigma expert and lawyer with decades of experience in private practice and in-house in Canada, Europe, and the UK. David combines his profound knowledge of the practice with the perspective he gained as a client, to help lawyers build profitable and productive practices. David is a sought after thought leader and consultant. He’s the co-author of The Power Zone Playbook for Lawyers and a global advisor to the International Institute of Legal Project Management. David has facilitated process improvement projects across North America and taught Gimbal’s proven LeanLegal® approach to thousands of legal professionals. David was a member of the bars of Quebec, Massachusetts, and New York for over 30 years. He splits his time between Montreal and Mont-Tremblant and dedicates hundreds of hours a year to volunteering as a ski patroller and rescue technician.

Mila Trezza
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mila-trezza/
https://coachinglawyers.co.uk/

Mila Trezza is a former general counsel and vice president for a Fortune Global 500 energy company. With over 20 years of international experience as a lawyer, she is now an award-winning executive coach. Through her coaching, Mila partners with legal leaders and organizations worldwide – including global corporations, top-tier law firms, and leading in-house teams – to reframe challenges, strengthen leadership, and build the confidence needed to create meaningful impact and sustainable growth. Her contributions to the legal profession have been recognized with numerous awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award (In-House) from ALM | Women, Influence & Power in Law UK.

Alex Davies