Beyond Billables

Today on the show we welcomed the remarkable Cullen Haynes, finance specialist and mortgage broker extraordinaire. Cullen is part of the team at Legal Home Loans who specialise in helping Partners and Barristers with their lending needs. Cullen has a fascinating story that demonstrates the value of focusing on a niche, bringing huge amounts of value, and building a strong brand. As one of the most...

This week on the show I had the tremendous privilege of interviewing EJ Wise, Cyber Lawyer and founder of WiseLaw. EJ has a remarkable story that spans 25 years working in the legal industry with the Australian Federal and State Governments and in private practice specialising in cyber law, policy, advice, international humanitarian law, law of the sea and criminal law! EJ is an internationally re...

Today on the show I had a great pleasure of welcoming Sacha Kirk, co-founder and CMO of Lawcadia.   In her role Sacha draws on over 15 years experience in marketing, brand strategy, innovation and professional consulting experience in Australia and the UK. Lawcadia is a legal technology company with a web-based platform in-house legal teams and their law firms can use to manage projects, matters a...

On the Insight show today we cover quite some ground!  In part one I chat about carving out time to do more stuff you love and give some tips on small changes that can make a big difference. It is a struggle as a busy professional but super important to find even small chunks of time for your own pursuits to make sure you never feel like you are missing out.   Part two is a follow up from my recen...

Today on the show I had the privilege of interviewing Wes Young, lawyer, proud father and Co-Founder of Legally Yours. Wes has a super interesting story which took him from journalism to law and shares his motivations for each step along the way. Wes has worked with some of the best known corporates and corporate personalities in Australia, and brings his experience to Legally Yours in what is a f...

On today's insight show we share a sneak peak of an upcoming episode with Wes Young, Co-Founder of Legally Yours. I also chat about leads, the way firms can attract more clients, and why you need a short, medium and long term plan. Finally we finish off the show with a short shoutout of a great blog post by Ian Whitworth all about the scourge of saying "I'm busy" and the need to connect with those...

On the show today I had the pleasure of sitting down with Alex Nicol, Director of Aptum Legal and Insolvency practitioner extraordinaire. Alex is a Co-Founder of Aptum Legal, a leading disputes practice that focuses on a range of complex disputes and insolvency work, all with a fixed price model. Alex and I discussed how Aptum Legal have been able to successfully implement a client focused pricing...

Today on the show we sat down with the remarkable Michael Chesterman, Consultant of Helix Legal. Michael brings his decades of knowledge of the construction industry to the Helix team, and he's not even a lawyer! Michael is in fact an industry expert that is a huge part of why Helix can deliver such a client centric approach to their service. Michael shares on the parallels between the constructio...

This week we've gone back to the vault and brought out some great short clips from one of our most popular shows ever with the amazing Kate Cliff. Kate has a remarkable story about using meditation to overcome chronic pain and then turn it into how she helps people in the world. https://www.beyondbillables.com/blog/kate-cliff-leaving-law-meditation-living-good-life We also tackle the massive "shou...

On the show today we had the privilege of sitting down with Fionn Bowd, Founder of the recently launched Bowd Legal. Fionn has a great story of excelling in practice both in top firms and in-house, and share many great lessons on what she learned along the way. Fionn has a true passion for empowering lawyers so that they can re-ignite their love for law and providing law firms with better solution...

This week on the insight show I drop some truth bombs around what to expect from your marketing spend, relive some epic advice from our recent show with Fiona from Girl Friday IP, and do a quick review of the awesome book "Can't Hurt me".  Most firms struggle to understand exactly what they should be getting out of their marketing spend, so I tell it straight. From brand building to lead generatio...

On the show today I had the privilege of interviewing Sarina Eggers-Stable, Founder of Business Kitz and entrepreneur extraordinaire. Sarina shared her professional story on how she has grown a number of businesses and all the lessons she's learned along the way. Sarina grew a business based on delivering a solution to client needs and is a great example of how anyone can take an idea and make it...

On the Insight show today Mike share's 5 of his biggest learnings from the last 12 months in business, we do a throwback to a great clip from a recent show with Anthony Curtin, and finish with a quick review of "The Obstacle is the Way" and "Ego is the Enemy" by Ryan Holiday.

This week on the show I had the epic privilege of being joined by the one and only Fiona Nguyen, founder of Girl Friday IP and all around awesome human. As a Patent Attorney and business owner Fiona has grown a great brand and business which was central to our discussion. Given our mutual love for branding we were able to do a deep dive into how lawyers of all kinds can grow great personal brands...

This week on the show we sat down with the brilliant Anthony Curtin of Merton Lawyers. Anthony is not only the co-founder of a growing commercial firm but also the founder of multiple other businesses from Christmas trees to mineral exploration companies! He has some outstanding insight into what it means to understand your clients business and has put in place process in his practice to help his...

This week on the show I had the absolute privilege of interviewing Matthew Karakoulakis, founder of AMK Law in Melbourne. As well as being the founder of AMK, a proud indigenous man who serves his community and an outstanding lawyer, Matthew and I are Brazilian Jiu Jitsu brothers! We had a great chat about Matthew's journey in all facets of his life, his drive to help his community and how his jou...

This week on the bite sized Beyond Billables Insight: Mike goes back to the archive and pulls out a cracking quote from Janelle Kerrisk on using technology in legal businesses. We highlight one of our favourite podcasts, the Joe Rogan Experience, and a recent episode on the catastrophic war on drugs and the realities of addiction. Finally we cover Facebook ads and why your firm probably has no ide...

This week we're proud to launch our brand new Beyond Billables "insight" show. Every fortnight we'll bring an upbeat 10 minute show to the lawyers of the world to give you inspiration to lead a better law life. On the show today Mike highlights the growth in legal technology investment, does a review of Matthew Walkers "Why we sleep" (for all those sleep deprived lawyers out there!), and recaps a...

Today on the show we had the absolute privilege of sitting down with Angus Murray. Angus is a partner at law firm Irish Bentley Lawyers, Vice President of the Queensland Council of Civil Liberties, the Chair of Electronic Frontiers Australia's Policy and Research Committee and Co-Founder of the Legal Forecast!  We spoke in depth about his journey in law, how he became a partner and what he has lea...

This week on the show Mike sat down with Kim Wiegand, Director of Business Development and Marketing at McCullough Robertson lawyers in Brisbane. Kim has experience working in Australia and in the UK with some of the largest law firms in the world and in a variety of BD and Marketing roles. We had a fabulous in depth discussion about how lawyers and law firms can improve their BD, get their brand...

On the show today we had the great pleasure of interviewing the amazing Dr George Beaton. George is the Founder of Beaton, the pre-eminent ratings and review consultancy for professionals around the world. George has had a long and distinguished career in academia as well earning MBBCh, MBA and PhD degrees. George is a senior fellow in the Law School at the University of Melbourne and taught at th...

On the first show of 2019 we sat down with Co-Founder of Josef and legal technology expert Sam Flynn! Josef is a legal technology business that was created to empower access to justice and help legal service providers build tools to better serve clients. In their own words "With Josef's automation platform, your organisation can create legal chatbots, streamline processes, eliminate repetitive tas...

James Edwards is the founder of Edwards + Co Legal, a boutique commercial law firm in Sydney providing quality, value-added legal solutions for modern business. The firm specialises in corporate and commercial work for media and digital industry clients, from household names to emerging start ups.   The firm began in 2012, after James returned from 7 years working across Asia for one of the world'...

Claudia Conley is the head of Talent Acquisition for Media Stable and manages their Melbourne office. She loves all things communications and has a passion for hearing great yarns and meeting diverse Subject Matter Experts. Media Stable's main purpose is to pitch said SME's and their content to the media, so Claudia's finger is always on the pulse of the latest breaks and happenings in the news cy...

We love to talk new law models on the BB podcast and this week we sat down with the Founder of another great Australian success story. Legally Yours is a lawyer matching platform that help connect clients with connect with lawyers on a fixed fee basis. It's another innovative model that seeks to increase access to legal services and also bring transparency to the way we all engage with legal servi...