Wealthy Woman Lawyer Podcast, Helping you create a profitable, sustainable law firm you love

Today, I read yet another post from a woman law firm owner “venting” about a “bad” client. Certainly, some people will never be easy to work with. Most “bad” client stories I read and hear, though, could have different outcomes if the law firm had a better client control or client management system. In this episode, I share one that was taught to me when I started my practice years ago, and one I’...

Are you suffering from the “success dilemma” in your firm? It’s one many women law firm owners seem to be struggling with right now... they are so successful that they are turning away work and yet, they can’t hire the talented A+ associates, paralegals and admins they need to meet the demand. If you are feeling the hiring pinch, know it’s not just you, and it’s not an illusion. Daily media report...

Online reviews can either be a magnet for new clients to your firm, or a ghost town that looks abandoned. Having a healthy review profile for your law firm is no longer optional. The problem is happy clients don’t always stop to leave reviews, and unhappy ones (or their friends and relatives) can’t get to the keyboard fast enough. In this episode I share with you five specific strategies to get mo...

According to experts, many of your deeply held beliefs are established by age 7. This includes our “money stories”—those stories we tell ourselves about money, hard work and wealth. Depending on what you’ve been taught and internalized, you may have created a subconscious limit to what you believe you can achieve financially. On this week’s episode of the Wealthy Woman Lawyer® podcast, I’m talking...

On this week’s episode of the Wealthy Woman Lawyer® podcast, I want to introduce you to 3 questions you can ask yourself when you are feeling overwhelmed and exhausted by all the items on your “to do” list, or when you feel out of control. I remember the first time someone asked me to ponder these questions in relation to my business. At the time, my ideas about time and money were very fixed, but...

On this week’s episode of the Wealthy Woman Lawyer® podcast, we focus on 7 foundational systems to put in place for a successful law firm.  When I’m talking with law firm owners who want to scale and create a profitable, sustainable law firm, it’s common to hear “I need systems.” But finding the time to set up those systems seems impossible, and even if you did, who knows where to start.  My purpo...

On this week’s episode of the Wealthy Woman Lawyer® Podcast, we welcome attorney Joan Wilson, Managing Partner of the all female firm of RWC, LLC. Joan received her law degree from Boston University School of Law. She is the President Elect of the Connecticut Chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA), and is one of 15 attorneys chosen by the Connecticut Attorneys Title Insuran...

We’re excited to welcome Ashley Kirkwood to this week’s episode of the Wealthy Woman Lawyer® Podcast. After graduating with honors from the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, Ashley began her career at one of the largest and most profitable law firms in the world, Kirkland & Ellis. Ashley was living the dream as a well paid corporate lawyer but when she changed firms based on an o...

On this week’s episode of the Wealthy Woman Lawyer® Podcast, we welcome Lindsey Egan.  Lindsey attended Massachusetts School of Law where she graduated Cum Laude and in the top 10 percent of her class. Prior to starting her own practice in 2018, she provided litigation support for a Fortune 500 company. Now, she runs Egan Law Center, a boutique client-centered family law and estate planning law of...

Our guest on this week’s episode of the Wealthy Woman Lawyer® Podcast is Amanda Abella. Amanda is an award-winning content creator, business coach, and the founder and CEO of Make Money Your Honey, a marketing and sales training company that specializes in creating world-class business programs for women.   She’s also a recovering under earner, people pleaser, and over giver who spent years afraid...

On this week’s episode of the Wealthy Woman Lawyer® Podcast, we welcome attorney Anna Byrne. Anna has over 25 years of estate planning experience and is the founding partner at Eckert Byrne LLC. Lawyers Weekly selected her as a Top Woman of Law in Massachusetts in 2014, and she was named SuperLawyer™ by Thomson Reuters from 2015 to present. But it was her life experience as a young widow that insp...

On this week’s Wealthy Woman Lawyer® Podcast, we speak with attorney Jennifer Abelaj. A first generation American, Jennifer’s career has a unique trajectory. She started out as a Certified Public Accountant with Ernst and Young before going to law school, and eventually starting her own firm, Jennifer V. Abelaj Law Firm in New York. Today we sit down with Jennifer to learn more about her and what...

On this week’s episode of the Wealthy Woman Lawyer®️ Podcast, we are joined by Jessica Medina, a former Big Law attorney who gave up the velvet handcuffs in favor of following her dreams. The decision was not an easy one, says the Columbia Law grad, because at the time, she also was shackled with hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt. And, she was a single mother of twin babies. Jessica shares...

On this week’s episode of the Wealthy Woman Lawyer® Podcast, we speak with attorney Sarah Poriss. From the beginning of her career at Consumer Law Group in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, Sarah was focused on representing consumers who were experiencing a personal financial crisis. Sarah was a member of Connecticut’s Bench-Bar Foreclosure Committee for its first seven years, helping draft the foreclosure...

In the third and final episode of our series focused on The Wealthy Woman Lawyer’s Guide to Law Firm Marketing in the Virtual Age: 10 Bold Actions to Take Now to Attract Your Ideal Clients with Total Ease , we cover: Understanding sales funnels Creating a website that converts How to select your distribution channel The number one secret to effective marketing And much more.

In the second of our three-part series focused on The Wealthy Woman Lawyer’s Guide to Law Firm Marketing in the Virtual Age : 10 Bold Actions to Take Now to Attract Your Ideal Clients with Total Ease , we discuss developing your law firm’s brand message including: How to articulate your value Crafting your message Creating a content plan with ease And much more!

On the first of three episodes focusing on how to effectively market your law firm business and attract ideal clients, we share with you excerpts from The Wealthy Woman Lawyer’s Guide to Law Firm Marketing in the Virtual Age: 10 Bold Actions to Take Now to Attract Your Ideal Clients with Total Ease . In this episode we cover getting to know your prospects including: How to identify your ideal clie...

On this week’s episode of the Wealthy Woman Lawyer®️ Podcast, we sit down with Sheereen Middleton. Sheereen is the Founder of Middleton Legal, a boutique, virtual law firm that focuses on bankruptcy, real estate, and estate planning in the state of Maryland. She has successfully created and operated her firm, growing it to include a team of 9, most of whom are distributed, remote workers. Based on...

On this week’s episode of the Wealthy Woman Lawyer® Podcast, we sit down with Jenna Zebrowski. Jenna has over a decade’s worth of experience as an attorney working with leasing, franchise, mortgages, and more, and she is a landlord, investor, and property manager herself. Jenna knows better than anyone that the key to building wealth is in investing and networking.  “The point is to meet this one...

On this week’s Wealthy Woman Lawyer® Podcast, we speak with Michelle Dellino. Michelle is the Managing Attorney of Dellino Law Group. Seattle-based Dellino Law Group focuses on family law matters, including intimate relationships, asset dissolution, domestic violence, and prenuptial and postnuptial agreements; criminal defense; and estate planning. Michelle, who was forced to face her own mortalit...

On this week’s Wealthy Woman Lawyer® Podcast, we speak with Elizabeth Franklin-Best, Founder of Elizabeth Franklin-Best P.C. in Columbia, South Carolina. A former career public defender and death penalty defense attorney, Elizabeth focuses her private practice on federal criminal defense; state and federal direct appeals; federal post-conviction; and habeas proceedings. Elizabeth’s goal has been t...

On this week’s Wealthy Woman Lawyer® Podcast, we speak with Iffy Ibekwe, an Estate Planning Attorney and Founder of Ibekwe Law. Ibekwe Law is dedicated to giving women and families that don’t fall under the “traditional” wealth umbrella a chance at building wealth and setting their families up for success. She also runs the We Read Her book club, a book club committed to reading works written by w...

On this week’s episode of the Wealthy Woman Lawyer® Podcast, we speak with Brooke Lively, Founder and CEO of Cathedral Capital. As a Chartered Financial Analyst, Brooke specializes in helping entrepreneurs turn their companies into profitable businesses by working with closely held companies with revenues up to 10 million dollars. She is the author of the 6 Key Numbers book series, which includes...

On this week’s Wealthy Woman Lawyer® Podcast, we speak with Jacquette M. Timmons, the President and CEO of Sterling Investment Management. Jacquette is a Financial Behaviorist who is committed to helping others manage their choices around money more effectively. She is also the author of Financial Intimacy: How to Create Healthy Relationships with Your Money and Your Mate . Her work has been featu...

On this week’s Wealthy Woman Lawyer® Podcast, we speak with Alexandra Davis. Alexandra is a litigation attorney based in North Carolina and the founder of Davis Legal Media. Davis Legal Media provides attorney-written content for lawyers and law firms in need of high-quality, ghostwritten thought leadership pieces. Alexandra is a graduate of Campbell Law School where she served on the Board of Edi...