Crushing Chaos with Law Firm Mentor

How can I be successful? I get this question a lot from lawyers when they have a call with us, or a breakthrough session with our office. They assume that what they really need is the tactic, the strategy, the know how. But what most people will encounter when they realize that there's a lot more to building a business than just what you do, in fact, what you do is far less important for the m...

Today I’m talking about the fact that you must decide what you want. What you want to create in terms of how big a profile you want to have, what types of accomplishments you want for your career, all of those things are a matter of intentionality. We don't create those things in our lives without some level of intentionality. And the more intentional that you are, the easier time you're g...

Ann Brennan is the owner of ASMM Digital Marketing and host of the Small Business Connections podcast and has a passion for marketing. Ann has her own show ASMM Digital Marketing, and it's a wonderful resource of information about marketing. I had a lot of fun talking to Ann because her marketing is different than what you usually would expect from a marketer. We talk about some of the highlig...

A lot of you may be thinking, I can't afford a recruiter. That's far too much money. I always use the traditional pathway of writing an ad, posting it on the usual places, seeing who applies, maybe asking around, and hopefully I'll find the right person for the role. In this week’s episode I share my thoughts on why I think that may or may not be the right perspective for you and anoth...

Jordan Ostroff is a visionary entrepreneur, the president of Legal Marketing, the managing partner and CEO of Jordan Law in Florida and host of the Exhibit A Attorneys, and Let's Get Up to Business podcast. His firm uses the latest technology and automation to provide top level legal work with a low volume of cases, but a high touch level of care and compassion.  When he started out he was ign...

Shawn Hill is the community marketing director for Nice Job, a reputation marketing company and host of the Nice Job podcast. He is an expert in community engagement and activation and is passionate about connecting people and protecting their reputations. Shawn and I talk about the distinctions between reputation management and reputation marketing and why you need to have a strategy for both. We...

Annette Choti is the CEO and owner of Law Quill, a legal digital marketing agency focused on solo and small law firms. Law Quill is the only legal digital marketing agency that provides unique SEO optimized content videos, SEO audits, backlink strategies, prepackaged content and courses for lawyers to learn themselves through Law Quill Academy. Annette is the host of the Legal Marketing Lounge pod...

Many of us struggle with whether or not to use credit cards in our business. We say, why pay the processing fee? I can just wait a couple of extra days and get the check. But as I love to say, and I said during this podcast episode, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. So, how do we use it effectively? And how do we consider having as many options as possible for our clients in a way that...

Brita Long is the creator and founder of The Happier Attorney, LLC. She is an attorney, author, coach, entrepreneur and all around happy person. She has completely revolutionized the business of law in the firm that she owns, as well as helping lawyers across the country to do the same. Brita has practiced law for over twenty two years and she saw how happy people's lives, including other atto...

Today our special guest guest is Kathryn Burmeister, a personal injury lawyer with an interesting perspective. Kathryn started a virtual law firm before virtual law firms were a thing.   Kathryn never anticipated starting her own business, but after a number of tumultuous events and what she describes as “having the rug yanked out from underneath her for the third time”, she opened her own law fir...

As the owner of Pineapple Consulting Firm, Jack Tompkins helps leaders to analyze and visualize their financial and marketing data and interactive charts, graphs and dashboards. They don't have to deal with the annoying data gathering and manipulation of it all and can quickly see the full picture. Jack and I explored several topics during our conversation, including some of the nuts and bolts...

Dave Lorenzo is the guy that can share all the business insider success secrets. Want to close the deal in 60 seconds? Dave's the guy. Want to open the door to a Fortune 500 CEO? Dave's the guy. Want to make more money and get home on time for dinner? Dave is definitely the guy. And that's the reason why I was so excited to have Dave on Crushing Chaos this week. Dave has a wealth of kn...

This week I had a phenomenal conversation with Mia Hewett, the founder and CEO of Allied Intelligence. She is the best selling author of Meant For More and an expert on the topic of human potential. She helps entrepreneurs, of which some are lawyers, stop secretly struggling and make six and seven figure leaps in their business using her aligned intelligence method. This methodology works consiste...

In this week’s episode I talk about the need for growth. You may think you don't really need to grow your law firm, which is fine. But I want to invite you to join the conversation about the need for growth, because it isn't necessarily about scaling your law firm. There are certain things that you have to do in order to continually keep a healthy business. These involve growth not only in...

In this episode, I discuss a disturbing pattern of behavior that I often see in the solo and small firm attorneys community and it's always been there. A lot of us create standards for how we want other people to engage in the world, how we want other people to show up in our lives, how we want other people to behave in our businesses, yet we do not meet our own standards. I wanted to share wi...

Amanda Berlin believes she was born to make sure we all are heard and seen and appreciated for our unique genius. And she does just that as a publicity strategist and content consultant. After studying journalism at George Washington University, she interned at CNN, wrote for a local paper, and ultimately became an expert in the creation of publicity strategy and content writing products and progr...

As the host of Be That Lawyer Podcast, Steve Fretzin acts as a kind of business development therapist. He coaches and trains lawyers on the most modern day business development skills, providing precise tips, fresh ideas and actionable tasks that drive tangible results. In today’s episode we discuss sales free selling. Many lawyers have an aversion to selling, Steve offers great insight, as well a...

Elise Buie, Esq., is a family law attorney who creates solutions, not obstacles. Her practice involves all aspects of family law, guided by a collaborative philosophy and her deep understanding of complex parenting issues. In this episode, Elise talks with us about her podcast, which is dedicated to the trifecta of three of the most challenging statuses that any person can have in our life; being...

Bill Coletti is an impressive leader in the space of crisis management, with more than 25 years of global experience managing high-stakes crises for both Fortune 500 companies and winning global political campaigns. You might think that a crisis for a Fortune 500 company differs from a crisis for a solo or small law firm and certainly, there are differences - but a crisis is still a crisis. Bill h...

Lawyers who have ventured online to market their businesses are often surprised at how powerful it is to have clients and colleagues review their services.  The online review has quickly become the staple of impactful online marketing.  Of course, with every positive phenomenon, we also encounter the flip side - the dreaded negative review.  What can be done about them?  Should we address them, an...

In this episode we discuss: The uncertain future of continuing to work from home, post-pandemic. The time and energy savings of working from home. How connecting with people is more difficult with only Zoom call interactions. Opportunities for hiring talent from all over the world when geography is no longer a dictating factor. Making a conscious effort to maintain and continue to develop your com...

When it comes to progress you can either get ahead of it, embrace it, or stand in its way and ultimately get run over by it. In today’s episode my guest Moshe Amsel and I  look at how you can embrace technology and the changes that occurred in 2020 to encourage growth in your law firm.  In this episode we discuss: The acceleration of change in the legal industry because of working virtual. Setting...

If you want to grow your law firm and be able to step away from it when you want or only handle the cases you want to handle then you need to change the way you think about your law firm. In today’s episode we are going to look at how to change your mindset about what your law firm has to be in order to allow it to transform into what you need it to be.  In this episode we discuss: Adjusting your...

Can your law firm run without you if you were to go on sabbatical or just take time off? In today’s episode we talk about what you need to do to make sure you can step away from your firm without everything falling apart.  In this episode we discuss:   Contemplating the possibility of being able to take time away from your law firm.   A list of specific things you absolutely need in place to be ab...

Many law firm owners think that they don’t have time to serve existing clients and perform marketing activities to generate new clients. In this episode not only are we going to talk about how to do both sustainably but also how to set up your marketing so that it generates recurring revenue.  In this episode we discuss:   How do you create a marketing plan and what is it?   The smoothing out of t...