Little did I know when I decided to hang out my shingle that I’d have to become a manager. 
I guess a part of me had this idea that I’d be a true solo, seeing a few clients here and there, drafting estate planning documents and that’d be it.
Ha!  That’s a joke.
There was so much more […]

To get your law business running on auto-pilot, you need these 6 systems:
1. A system for managing your numbers.
You should be getting daily, weekly and monthly reports that tell you within a tenth of a percentage point whether you are on track to meet your goals.
Once you know how to set this up, its super […]

I’ve just spent the last couple of hours playing around on my various social networking sites and doing a little research into which ones are effective for lawyers and which ones aren’t.
When you are just starting out in your practice, you can’t afford to lose time on things that are not going to be a […]

According to one of my business mentors, Brett Harward, the first law of business is that “it is impossible to manage or control what you cannot or do not measure.”
Tis a truth that took me a long time to grasp.
I was afraid of the numbers, frankly.  And, I didn’t know what questions to ask.  Or […]