by Molly McGrath | Mar 8, 2023 | Coaching for Lawyers, Employee Engagement, Leadership
Picture an employee on the verge of burnout (which shouldn’t be too hard to do considering today’s working climate). What do you see? An overworked, run-down, disengaged shell of the person you hired? A scattered, erratic, and increasingly bitter former team player?...
by Molly McGrath | Feb 22, 2023 | Coaching for Lawyers, Increasing Business, Leadership
If you run a small law firm, you already know a thing or two about how to be a successful entrepreneur, and yet it never hurts to brush up on basics. Discipline got you where you are, and it’ll also get you to where you want to go—but, of course, that’s easier said...
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...