Your law business is your vehicle for realizing your dreams in life. Done properly you will create a business that provides you with the money you need to live the life you desire, and the time to enjoy it with loved ones – meaning you’re not working 50-70 hour weeks, and when you’re home, you are pleasant to be around. To write an effective business plan, like any effective communication, you need to know your audience. Who is this plan for? There’s a big difference between a business plan for seeking bank funding, and a business plan to keep yourself … Continue reading »

In my last post, I shared with you that the number one thing your clients will happily pay more for is “an experience”. Now, this doesn’t mean you have to have a lot of experience as a lawyer. I don’t mean that kind of experience… It really doesn’t matter how much legal experience you have in order to create an experience for your prospects and clients. What your clients want is to feel something when they come in and work with you. However, this is not an across the board truth. Some prospects are shopping around based on price, that’s true. But … Continue reading »

In this two-part series, I’m going to share how the New Law Business Model can change your practice and your life. Let me start with how it came to be… The New Law Business Model was born after I went out on my own, starting my own law practice, expecting I would follow the model of so many other lawyers and create success and freedom for myself rapidly. Very quickly though, I saw that the old model of law practice is broken. If I followed that model, I would not have anything close to what I considered to be success … Continue reading »