Like many tech-savvy lawyers, Joshua Stein, a partner at Latham & Watkins, has had to rethink the way he works with his assistant in recent years. In an article published in ALI-ABA's The Practical Lawyer, he discusses a clever method for quickly delegating items in his e-mail inbox. Specifically, Joshua forwards action-oriented e-mail messages to his assistant with a one letter code in the subject line. For example, "N" means add the person to his Outlook contacts. Read the article.
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