Legal Tasks Prioritization Template

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Efficiently manage and prioritize your legal tasks with the Eisenhower method. This template helps you categorize tasks based on their urgency and importance, ensuring that you focus on what truly matters.

Ideal for legal coordinators in non-profits, this template streamlines your workflow, helping you tackle urgent legal issues while planning for important long-term tasks.

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Proposed Tasks

Urgent and Important

  • Review new legislation due in 2 days
    ☐ Understand the implications of the new legislation ☐ Analyze how it affects our organization
  • Respond to a legal notice due in 2 days
    ☐ Understand the notice ☐ Prepare a response
  • Attend court hearing due in 3 days
    ☐ Prepare for the hearing ☐ Represent the organization at the hearing
  • Draft partnership agreement due in 1 week
    ☐ Understand the terms of the partnership ☐ Ensure legal compliance
  • Evaluate legal risks for new project due in 1 week
    ☐ Understand the project ☐ Identify potential legal risks
  • Negotiate a dispute resolution due in 1 week
    ☐ Understand the dispute ☐ Develop a negotiation strategy
  • Prepare for a regulatory audit due in 1 month
    ☐ Review relevant regulations ☐ Ensure the organization is in compliance

Important but not Urgent

  • Consult with external legal counsel due in 1 week
    ☐ Prepare questions for the consultation ☐ Take notes during the consultation
  • Train new staff on legal procedures due in 2 weeks
    ☐ Prepare training materials ☐ Conduct the training
  • Update employee contracts due in 2 weeks
    ☐ Review current contracts ☐ Make necessary changes
  • Update privacy policy due in 3 weeks
    ☐ Review current privacy policy ☐ Make necessary changes to comply with new regulations
  • Review insurance policies due in 3 weeks
    ☐ Understand the terms of the policies ☐ Ensure they provide adequate coverage
  • Review vendor contracts due in 1 month
    ☐ Understand the terms of the contracts ☐ Ensure they are favorable to the organization
  • Prepare for annual board meeting due in 1 month
    ☐ Review legal documents to be presented at the meeting ☐ Prepare a presentation summarizing legal issues

Urgent but not Important

  • Answer legal queries from staff due in 2 days
    ☐ Understand the questions ☐ Provide accurate and helpful responses
  • Attend webinar on non-profit legal issues due in 1 week
    ☐ Prepare questions to ask during the webinar ☐ Take notes during the webinar
  • Attend a networking event due in 2 weeks
    ☐ Prepare a brief introduction of the organization ☐ Meet with potential partners

Neither Urgent nor Important

  • Read legal blog posts due in 2 weeks
    ☐ Select relevant blog posts ☐ Take notes on important points
  • Clean up old legal files due in 1 month
    ☐ Identify files that can be discarded ☐ Organize remaining files
  • Update legal department's FAQ document due in 1 month
    ☐ Review current FAQ ☐ Add new questions and answers