This post was originally published on Oct. 13, 2016 and updated on April 11, 2018.
As the owner of a small or mid-sized law firm, your primary focus – after gaining competency as an attorney – is to understand and apply the key principles of business development, operations, management and law firm marketing every single
How happy are you about your pursuit of financial independence through the practice of law?
If the answer is, “not very,” then it’s time to start taking the necessary steps to build a lifestyle law firm — one that lets you do what you want, when you want to do it. There is no magic
All of the highly successful lawyers I know have one thing in common: they take the time to plan for the future of their law practice. They don’t just let things happen, they make things happen. They guide the destiny of their business with a firm hand and an eye on the future.
Would I
Up to this point, your competitive nature has been necessary for your survival.
Competition in the legal industry is drilled into you from taking the LSAT, to being ranked in law school, to competitive internships, to selling your soul to Big Law in hopes you will be looked at as partner material.
Once you become
It’s been several years since I joined my first Mastermind Group. Since then, my business has grown from under a million dollars in revenue to several million. We’ve grown the team from under a dozen employees to over 60 team members and we’ve gone from helping over 6,000 attorneys to over 18,000 attorneys. In my
Have you ever wished you could tap into the minds of law firm owners more successful than you to learn their secrets?
Have you ever wanted to have the expertise of some of the greatest strategists in law firm marketing at your fingertips?
Would you like to be part of an elite group of law
Frankly, I think whoever said, “It’s lonely at the top” has never been there.
It has been my observation that those at the top of the legal profession have lots of company. Because no one who gets to the top gets there by themselves.
For example — over the last 17 years, our company has
It’s a new year, but are you working on becoming a new you? This year, I’ve made one of my goals to let go of doing things that do not serve me (or my business) well. You cannot truly build the law firm of your dreams without first working on yourself, banishing the bad habits
I’d like to share with you an interview with one attorney who took what most lawyers can identify with as an adverse condition — grinding away at a practice he found unfulfilling — to reinvent himself and create a lifestyle law firm in a
There are certain similarities that successful law firms have that unsuccessful ones don’t. I call them habits, since they must be deeply ingrained in an organization to bear full fruit.
A few years ago, Forrester Research — a global business research and advisory firm — studied the successful habits of small businesses, and it is