Law Firm Motivation Recovery: How to Reignite Your Drive
October 3, 2022
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 market, built a career, and had the moxie to start your own firm. It wasn’t always fun, but it gave you purpose. Now you’re here, in calmer seas… What's next?
Law Firm Admin Transparency: Boost Performance & Retention
September 21, 2022
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 ability to retain talented employees—and yet it’s easy to feel as if there’s no alternative. This article exists to tell you that there is but to see it, you need to learn the value of transparency.
Law Firm Growth Strategy: Avoid Burnout and Boost Revenue
September 14, 2022
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. Furthermore, if they’d told you that every day would be a grind, retaining quality employees would feel impossible, and even finding slivers of joy in your routine would feel out of reach, you would have fled. So how did you get here? Or perhaps, more importantly, how do you change?
Law Firm Revenue: How to Boost Profit Without Burnout
September 8, 2022
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 enterprise and so it always shocks me when entrepreneurial attorneys don’t understand incremental revenue.
Law Firm Admin Bootcamp: Unlock Growth and Efficiency
August 24, 2022
Actions speak louder than words and so while no attorney will admit that they’re afraid of growth, plenty display this fear in the ways they act (or fail to do so). Growth requires a leap of faith, after all, and not everyone is confident enough to jump. You don’t gain a competitive advantage by sitting idly but by doing upfront work that only later translates into increased productivity.
Motivating Law Firm Teams with Admin Bootcamp
August 18, 2022
If there’s one characteristic every employee needs, regardless of their duty, it’s intrinsic motivation. When your team is as driven as you are, untold success is at your fingertips. The issue, of course, is that building such a team doesn’t come easy. It takes planning and, crucially, time—and if you’re like every attorney out there, you haven’t got much of the latter to spare.