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 Hiring Struggles Still Persist Today
August 3, 2022
We’re over two years into the pandemic. Yet drive through downtown in most cities (and even rural towns), and you’ll see them…“Now hiring” and “help wanted” signs on practically every block, law firm social media post, and digital job site! So what’s going on? Why are business owners of all kinds (including law offices) still struggling to find and retain employees? Here are three reasons for this ongoing labor shortage.
Cost-Plus Legal Strategy: A Smarter Way to Grow Your Firm
July 19, 2022
Human beings are no good at long-term planning. If the record temperatures consuming Europe weren’t ample proof of this, the fact that only one-third of U.S. adults has an estate plan certainly is. We are simply a species hard-wired to survive the day, not the decade, and while this is natural, it’s also costly. What are you losing by not sending your employees to our Law Firm Admin Bootcamp for proper training? What is it costing you to not shell out a little extra for top talent? What is lost when you blow a referral by failing to stay on top of our email? The answer is: you don’t even want to know.
Employee Retention in Law Firms: Why Great Staff Leave
July 12, 2022
Great employees aren't being poached by bigger, badder firms offering bigger, badder salaries or "Cadillac" benefits. They're not overwhelmed by their to-do lists or workloads.
They're leaving because YOU—the attorney—are not holding up YOUR end of the bargain.