Margaret Spencer Dixon is a lawyer and consultant specializing in time management, project management, and stress management seminars for lawyers and legal professionals. Meg came to the field of organization and time management by way of a career in law, during which she practiced in the litigation and energy groups of the law firm formerly known as Shaw Pittman in Washington, D.C. She received her undergraduate degree, cum laude in economics, from Princeton University in 1982, and received her law degree from Stanford Law School in 1985. After law school she clerked for Judge Cecil F. Poole of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco.
In 1992, Meg left the practice of law to found Spencer Consulting, and since then has been giving speeches, writing articles, and conducting public and in-house seminars on many aspects of time management and related subjects such as procrastination, project management, stress management, and how to run effective meetings. She has presented seminars for numerous clients including law firms, CLE providers, government agencies, Harvard Law School, and organizations such as the Women’s Bar Association, the National Law Firm Marketing Association, and the District of Columbia Bar.
Her writings include articles entitled "Yes, You Can Learn to Keep Your Desk Clutter-Free," "Time Management Habits: How to Develop Good Ones and Kick Bad Ones," and "Overcoming Procrastination: How to Get Things Done Despite Yourself." She has been chair of the Time Management Interest Group of the American Bar Association's Law Practice Management Section, authored the chapter on time management in the ABA's book, "Living with the Law: Strategies to Avoid Burnout and Create Balance," and recorded the audiotape programs "So Little Time, So Much Paper"™ and "The Palm® Approach to So Little Time, So Much Paper" for the ABA's Center for CLE. Her book, "The Lawyer's Guide to Palm Powered® Handhelds," was published by the ABA in 2004. Her most recent recording project was the audio program "So Many Meetings, So Little Time: Making Meetings Shorter, Better Organized, and More Productive" for the ABA's Center for CLE.
One of Meg’s role models is her father George H. Spencer, who is currently in his second half-century of practice in international patent, trademark and copyright law in Washington, D.C.
Meg lives with her husband and daughter in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Kensington, Maryland. She can be reached at 301-949-2214 and at MegSpencerDixon@TimeManagementForLawyers.com.