5/26/2023 By Beth Worthy

8 Stylish Decoration Tips for Your Law Office

As a lawyer, you spend a lot of your time in the office preparing for court hearings, out-of-court settlements, and meeting clients. Therefore, it is not surprising that your desk may be cluttered with lots of documents and files. The clutter can make you detest going to work every morning. However, this does not have to be the case.

Since you spend a lot of time in the office, why can’t you make it cozy and ambient for your work? Decorating the office and organizing your desk will help you be more efficient and productive.

Follow our tips below to declutter your desk and make the office more aesthetically pleasing and conducive for your work.

Eliminate the Clutter

The last thing you want to see when you get in the office is a pile of mismanaged files and papers spread all over your desk. When you have cases to research and clients to work with, you need a serene and organized environment that leaves your mind open to think.

De-clutter the office and leave as much space as possible on your table. Put the case documents in folders and arrange them on the shelves to keep the office desk clutter-free.

Light Up the Office

A bright office is more inviting and highlights the decor on the walls, shelves, and desks. Moreover, proper lighting is essential for the health of your eyes. Therefore, ensure the office is well-lit with natural or fluorescent light.

Check all areas of the office, particularly those where you keep important items or use frequently, and confirm that they are adequately lit. For example, the front office may have sufficient natural light, but the cubicles may be a little darker. In this case, you can install fluorescent lighting in the cubicles to make them brighter.

Show Your Academic Excellence

The long lectures, grueling schedules and long nights in law school finally culminated into you graduating top in your class. This is an achievement that you deserve and should be recognized.

Celebrate your academic excellence during your practice years. For example, get custom diploma frames for your graduation photo and display it on your desk. Anytime you hit a dead end during your career, you can motivate yourself by remembering how hard you worked to become an attorney.

Go Green in Your Cubicle

Add color and natural freshness in your office with some beautiful flowers, a small bamboo plant or green hanging plants. The flowers should be fresh and changed regularly before they start withering.

Flowers of different colors can play nicely with the interior color, enhancing creativity and making the office more inviting to prospective clients that may consider you an “unreachable” attorney.

Store Stationery Supplies Properly

You also want to store your stationery suppliers, calendars, and folders properly. But here is where the magic comes; put them in colorful storage accessories. Color has been proven to affect mood and creativity.

You want to be in your top form at the office. Use color-coded files or stationery for specific cases. For example, you can store documents needed for urgent cases in red files to reflect urgency. As you tackle the cases, you can change the documents to different colored-files, depending on their priorities.

Highlight Professional Achievements

Increase the confidence of prospective clients by hanging the professional accolades you’ve gathered over the years on your wall and cupboards. For example, your law school and bar accreditations should be displayed prominently on your office. 

Stay Motivated With Quotes

You need motivation regularly to keep pushing on, especially if you are handling difficult cases or clients. Since you spend most of your time at the office, it would be the perfect place to get your daily dose of motivation.

Get a couple of quotes printed, cut and pasted on your whiteboard to keep your going. You can also get motivational quotes inscribed permanently on the board or changed from time to time on plaques.

Given how challenging legal cases can be, a dose of motivational quotes will come in handy when you feel like giving up.

Hang Beautiful Artwork

The legal career is demanding, challenging and can easily wear you down. There are issues to deal with morality, ethics, and personal convictions. You will hit a snag at one point or the other and get gloomy.

To avoid the gloom, decorate your office with different artworks to show your personality. Looking at your favorite paintings can be therapeutic, and this can help you make headway when you are bogged down. Hang a couple of creative artworks on the wall that you can see and rejuvenate your mind from time to time.

Follow the tips above to decorate your law office and get back your mojo.