by Molly McGrath | Feb 2, 2022 | Coaching for Lawyers, Communication, Employee Retention, Hiring, Increasing Business, Law Firm Business Development, Leadership, Legal Staffing & Leadership Development, Team Empowerment
Where innovation is concerned, it’s rarely large, unwieldy institutions that lead the charge. In tech, for instance, start-ups drive new ideas while behemoths in the field rely on vast cash reserves to buy out innovation when it grows hot. Think Amazon snapping up...
by Molly McGrath | Jan 19, 2022 | Communication, Employee Engagement, Employee Retention, Increasing Business, Leadership, Team Empowerment, Team Training
January is the month of Janus, the Roman god of new beginnings, gates, and transitions. If there were ever a month to plan a leadership retreat aimed at refreshing your firm, then, this is it. Executive team building retreats are like nitrous oxide for an engine: a...
by Molly McGrath | Oct 15, 2021 | Increasing Business, Law Firm Business Development, Leadership, Team Empowerment, Team Training
Most small law firms and solo practitioners have year-end goals they’d like to achieve before the fourth quarter comes to a close. While 2021—much like 2020—has forced business owners to continue to adapt to ever-changing social dynamics and, of course, a seemingly...
by Molly McGrath | Mar 25, 2021 | Increasing Business, Leadership, Legal Staffing & Leadership Development, Personal Growth
The paralegal profession is evolving at breakneck speed. Only influencers, SEO writers, and a short list of other hyper-modern occupations outpace paralegals in the way the scope of their required skills has grown. To anyone who’s been paying attention, this is no...
by Molly McGrath | Mar 11, 2021 | Increasing Business, Leadership, Legal Staffing & Leadership Development, Personal Growth
Law firm marketing and business development are trendy topics but not all advice offered carries equal weight. All too often, media outlets drop terms to earn your clicks without investing any real research into their recommendations. The following list is different....
by Molly McGrath | Sep 23, 2020 | Increasing Business, Legal Staffing & Leadership Development, Team Training
We live in an accelerated world. If you’ve read Juliet B. Schor’s pathbreaking book, The Overworked American, you know that US workers log more hours and less vacation than the average medieval peasant. This was true in 1991 when Schor’s book was published and, if...