by Molly McGrath | Feb 1, 2023 | Coaching for Lawyers
If you’re an entrepreneurial attorney, and you’ve felt like the walls are closing in around you, you’re not imagining it. The legal industry has been pulling hard at the drawstrings, and margins are narrowing around nearly every metric that determines success. In...
by Molly McGrath | Jan 25, 2023 | Coaching for Lawyers
Nobody goes through life alone, and nobody gets out alive. There aren’t a lot of certainties in this world, but these two principles hold true for everyone. We’re not in this for long, but we’re in it together. Don’t shoot yourself in the foot, then, and try to go it...
by Molly McGrath | Oct 3, 2022 | Coaching for Lawyers, Employee Engagement, Employee Retention, Increasing Business, Law Firm Business Development, Leadership, Legal Staffing & Leadership Development, Personal Growth
You don’t become an attorney without a healthy dose of ambition, which is why so many in the profession suffer when they hit their mid-career slump. You studied, stressed, and ultimately survived law school. You passed the bar, waded into the sharky waters of the job...
by Molly McGrath | Sep 21, 2022 | Coaching for Lawyers, Employee Engagement, Employee Retention, Increasing Business, Law Firm Business Development, Leadership, Legal Staffing & Leadership Development, Personal Growth
There are two types of attorneys: those that spend their day worrying about what their admin team is (or isn’t) doing and those that spend their day micromanaging their admins to relieve this worry. Neither is good—not for you, not for your firm, and not for your...
by Molly McGrath | Sep 14, 2022 | Coaching for Lawyers, Decreasing Stress, Employee Engagement, Employee Retention, Increasing Business, Law Firm Business Development, Leadership, Legal Staffing & Leadership Development, Personal Growth
When you started law school you knew it was going to be busy, stressful, and hard but if someone had told you then that ten, fifteen, or twenty years on you’d be struggling to carve out vacation time and have no margin for self-care, you might not have signed up....
by Molly McGrath | Sep 8, 2022 | Coaching for Lawyers, Employee Engagement, Increasing Business, Law Firm Business Development, Leadership, Personal Growth, Team Training
If you didn’t love law, you wouldn’t run a law firm and yet let’s be honest: you won’t put in long hours every day for the love of the game; you do it to make money. Profit is the whole point of running a business, after all. It’s the raison d’être of every...