Lawyer's Learning Center with DHIA

Calculating Adequate Coverage When It Comes to Limits of Liability Ask the difficult question: Will my law practice be adequately protected with the insurance coverage and limits I have chosen? While professional liability insurance is unique to other lines of insurance, it still holds true to what insurance is.  Your policy will be there to financially protect your law firm and can help alleviate...

Understanding Lawyers Professional Liability Insurance will allow you to make confident decisions in protecting your practice.    Industry statistics show that lawyers starting their career in private practice today are likely to have one to three claim matters during their professional career.  This could be more if the legal work involves high-risk practice areas such as plaintiff’s personal inj...

How to Better Understand Insurance Coverage: What is a Claim? Claims-Made and Reported vs. Occurrence Policies Claim Reporting and Policy Renewal Pricing The more you know, the more confident you can be in your decision-making.  Finding a reliable and knowledgeable agent can help you to evaluate all your potential options for professional liability insurance and come up with a plan that fits your...

Should You Use Professional Liability Insurance for Cyber? Let’s weigh your options: Pay out of pocket Use your professional liability policy Use a cyber liability policy The more you know, the more confident you can be in your decision-making.    Download a Cyber Self-Assessment     ════════════════════ Sign up for email reminders so you catch every episode.  Stay connected with DHIA for updates...

Prior Acts Coverage 101 In this episode, listen to learn:  why Lawyers Professional Liability Insurance has been written on a claims-made and reported policy form since 1970,   what a Retroactive Date is and why it makes continuous coverage crucial, and  how to avoid gaps in your liability insurance coverage.   Download the Professional Liability Checklist     ════════════════════ Sign up for emai...

Preventing Gaps In Your Insurance Coverage Listen to this episode to discover five ways gaps in coverage occur and four tips on how to avoid gaps in your liability insurance coverage. TIP: Know your Prior Acts Coverage or Retroactive Date. Download the Professional Liability Checklist     ════════════════════ Sign up for email reminders so you catch every episode.  Stay connected with DHIA for upd...

Take action in finding the employees that drive prosperity.   What does it really take to grow your law firm to $1 million, $5 million, or even $10+ million?    True success in your law firm depends on finding employees who will drive your business to the next level.  Law firms rely on the creative spark that good employees bring to the job.    The secret to unlocking your firm's potential li...

Tracking sales may seem like a simple process, but what you don’t know may be holding you back. As Edward Deming once said, "If you don't know how to ask the right questions, you discover nothing."   We want to make sure you are asking the right questions so that you can uncover what your law firm is missing and take action to improve it.   This episode of the Lawyers MBA Series is...

Navigating your law firm's financial metrics with confidence comes down to understanding financials and analyzing your law firm’s performance, which can be a difficult task.   Gain confidence in making data-driven decisions to take your law firm to the next level.   This episode will explore new ways to look at your financials to make metrics fun.  Join Attorney Rjon Robins to learn from his...

Scale your law firm to $1+ Million in profits and beyond –   The problem with law schools is they don’t teach the business of law.  That’s why we created The Lawyer’s MBA webinar series.    The average small law firm grows 2%-5% per year.  Your law firm growth may be consistent, but have you tackled how to scale your business beyond that?  What would it take to get to 25% to 30%?   Law firms have...

Hear From An Entrepreneur Who Has Lived It   It is easy to feel run into the ground as a small business owner.   Surviving the struggle is only one step. Sticking with it is the real challenge. Reaching success is the ultimate goal.   Hear insights from someone who started a small law firm, stumbled along the way, and finally found the key to success.   Listen to this episode and learn from a fell...

Law school didn’t teach about hiring… especially hiring support staff.     The problem with law schools is they don’t teach the business of law. That’s why we created The Lawyer’s MBA webinar series.     There’s been a 300% increase in job openings at law firms for non-lawyer roles. That’s according to Wisnik Career Services who’s been recruiting for law firms for more than a quarter century.    ...

Law school doesn’t teach the business of law. So, how could you know?   You shouldn’t have to spend your time selling your law firm. Your time is best spent on billable hours.   Here’s what they didn’t teach you: ·         Sales folks can sell more legal services than lawyers. ·         They often cost less than lawyers. ·         Many law firms are already realizing this. ·         The law firm c...

Law school doesn’t teach the business of law. So, it should be no surprise that attorneys struggle with marketing.   Listen in to discover simple, low-tech, low-cost marketing tactics that deliver revenue to your law firm.   And for the more ambitious folks, we’ll also show you how to build an automated marketing machine that handles much of the marketing while you’re billing hours.   Episode Reso...

Make Success a Plan – Not an Accident   No lawyer goes to court without a plan. But they’ll start a law practice without one.    That is because law school doesn’t teach the business of law. So, we’re changing that with The Lawyer’s MBA webinar series.   This week we will show you how to profitably grow your law firm without burning out.     The MBA folks call that a business plan. But we believe...

How To Run a Profitable Law Firm and Take More Money Home    Law school doesn’t teach the business of law. And it is more fun to accrue billable hours than it is to do the billing.   So, we created the Lawyer’s MBA webinar series so you can run your law firm like a business and take more money home. In this edition, we’re going to show:   ·         How to manage the finances of your law firm. ·   ...

The mindset of an entrepreneur is the core of the business.  In this episode of the Lawyers MBA Series, listen as RJon Robins shares in this week’s episode on mindset, “It’s the gateway to every productive marketing conversation. Mindset is the gateway to every productive sales conversion conversation. Mindset is the gateway to every productive conversation about how you’re able to attract and ret...

Tune in to go over the 7 Parts of a Successful Business.   A contract has five essential items: ·         Mutual assent ·         An offer ·         Acceptance of the offer ·         Consideration ·         Legality   Similarly, a successful law firm has seven essential items: ·         Marketing ·         Sales ·         Production ·         People ·         Physical Plant ·         Money & M...