137: Reflections on Systematizing Your Law Firm (with Kerry Wallis)

Kerry Wallis practices family law in Los Angeles California, and aspires to spend more time traveling the world. She's been working on building systems by documenting workflows, and she's been traveling Europe with her family during the pandemic.

How is she able to do this? Listen to this episode and find out.

Show Notes

Gray Law Corp (Kerry's law firm website) Slack (tool Kerry uses extensively) Otter.ai (free transcription tool) Otter transcript of this episode Evernote (online note storage) Google Docs (online doc storage) SweetProcess (online process documentation service) Link to Ernie's 28-day free trial of SweetProcess Loom (free video creation tool) The E-Myth, by Michael Gerber (seminal business book for small business owners)

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