Latest Lawfirmpracticemanagement Podcast Episodes
192: Be Your Own Gatekeeper
The 80/20 Principle - February 22, 2022 09:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsYou need to protect your valuable time from people who want to steal it. Develop strategies for saying no more often, and for filtering out useless information masquerading as news - do this for your sake and the sake of your clients. Show Notes Free To Focus: A Total Productivity System to Ac...
191: Invisible Fences
The 80/20 Principle - February 15, 2022 09:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsMental blocks are like invisible fences that keep us from progressing and from achieving what we most want in our practices. Or has the old saying goes, "whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right." In this episode, we'll get clear about what invisible fences are holding y...
190: Text Automation for Lawyers (with TextExpander)
The 80/20 Principle - February 08, 2022 09:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsIf you want to turbocharge your text output, and triple your typing speed, you need to know about a powerful tool called TextExpander. This is the key to text automation on steroids. Show Notes TextExpander free trial Brett Burney's TextExpander courses for lawyers YouTube video demonstra...
189: How to Create and Effectively Market a Flat Fee Offer
The 80/20 Principle - February 01, 2022 09:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsIf you're looking to save money, increase revenue, attract better clients, and gain more freedom in the long run, then offering flat fee pricing is one of the best things you can do for your practice. But how do you figure out the flat fee? And how do you market your flat fee offer in a way ...
188: The '5 Whys' is a Powerful Problem Solving Tool
The 80/20 Principle - January 25, 2022 09:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsAs knowledge workers, we need to think well to solve important problems. Asking the right questions is how we find root causes for problems versus superficial ones. The "5 Whys" is a powerful interrogative process for asking better questions. What is the 5 Whys process? That's a great question...
187: Automated Scheduling
The 80/20 Principle - January 18, 2022 09:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsWorking out the best time to talk or zoom with someone is annoying, but not if you automate the process. Lawyers who do this are flabbergasted at how amazing it is. In this episode, you'll learn about the two best software options for automating your scheduling. And you'll have a clearer idea ...
186: Everything is Figureoutable (including how to create your dream practice)
The 80/20 Principle - January 11, 2022 09:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsHow do you create a rewarding law practice that earns you a good living, and is also enjoyable? And what's the role of technology in trying to do that? Well, the key is to start with the right frame of mind. If you see this goal as monumental then you'll probably be intimidated. But if you bel...
185: Don’t Do This (The Secret to More Effective Marketing)
The 80/20 Principle - January 04, 2022 12:52 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsMost lawyers do things that decrease the likelihood of getting good clients. Some even spend money on ads that are counter-productive. Don't do that. Instead, do what I'll explain in this episode. It's easy to do the more effective thing once you understand what not to do )and why the more eff...
184: My Well-Kept Secret (with Megan Hargroder)
The 80/20 Principle - December 28, 2021 09:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsIn this episode, Ernie is interviewed about a longstanding, well-kept secret that finally emerged to the public during a recent episode of NPR's This American Life. Megan probes Ernie in an interview designed to show you how being vulnerable (in some cases because of public revelations) can he...
183: Your Best Marketing Focus for 2022 (with Megan Hargroder)
The 80/20 Principle - December 21, 2021 09:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsIf you want to get better clients, consistently, and cost-effectively, you need to focus on this one thing above all else in the coming year. Megan Hargroder joins Ernie to delve into the thing that will make the best impact on your marketing efforts if you focus on it, and do so consistently...
182: What to Focus on in 2022 to Transform Your Practice
The 80/20 Principle - December 14, 2021 09:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsTransforming your practice means focusing on what's most important and consistently improving in that area. Next year I recommend you focus on this one thing above all else. If you're realistic about what it takes to make big improvements you can make them. You also need to proceed strategical...
181: Funny Online CLE programs (with Joel Oster)
The 80/20 Principle - December 07, 2021 09:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsJoel Oster is a comedian who practices law, and he puts on highly entertaining CLE programs that you can access online. Plus he just wrote a funny book. In this episode, Joel explains how he started using comedy to get speaking gigs. His thesis is that "the true role of the law can best be und...
180: Paperless Lawyering Questions from Attorney Joe O'Keefe
The 80/20 Principle - November 30, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsSt. Louis estate planning attorney Joe O'Keefe had some questions about optimizing his practice to be more paperless. In listening to this discussion, you'll learn about why you might want to use a digital document management system, and which one is best for lawyers. And many other aspects of b...
179: Mental Models - Part 2
The 80/20 Principle - November 23, 2021 09:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsIn the last episode, we talked about how mental models are helpful for simplifying our complex world to make it more understandable. Now let's delve deeper. We'll discuss different types of mental models, focusing on ones that attorney/businessman Charlie Munger believes are the most importa...
178: Mental Models (Charlie Munger)
The 80/20 Principle - November 16, 2021 09:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsIt's often hard to understand our complex tech-driven world. That's why we need "mental models" to simplify the complex and make it more understandable. Charlie Munger is a famously successful lawyer who popularized the idea of using mental models. In this episode, Ernie explores how lawyers c...
177: Building a Better Biography (with Megan Hargroder)
The 80/20 Principle - November 09, 2021 09:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsTo attract better clients you need to give greater assurance that you're someone they'd feel comfortable working with. Or even better that they yearn to work with. The best tool for doing this is your biography, but not via the usual "obituary style" litany of accomplishments. Rather, you need...
176: Make Knowledge Work More Visible
The 80/20 Principle - November 02, 2021 08:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsWe need to be constantly mindful of what we're working on because it's easy for important work to slip through the cracks, figuratively speaking. The best way to do this is to make our work visible. Not literally, but figuratively. The thing to keep in mind is that our knowledge work is mostly...
175: Make it Personal
The 80/20 Principle - October 26, 2021 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsIf you're willing to go beyond the superficial and get more personal, you'll attract much better clients. It feels awkward at first, but it's vital. In this episode, I'll share some really personal things that I don't normally share. Not as a "marketing ploy," but to demonstrate that deeper co...
174: Mental Trauma & Stress
The 80/20 Principle - October 19, 2021 08:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsThe modern world places even greater strain on our mental well-being. How can we become more resilient, strong, and balanced? Sometimes it's not easy to understand. But we can gain useful perspective that helps us stay calm, and make better decisions under pressure. Or just in the everyday str...
173: Reading Jurors' Minds (with Elizabeth Larrick)
The 80/20 Principle - October 12, 2021 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsJury consultants assemble focus groups and then use psychology-based interview strategies to help lawyers get in the minds of jurors. Now they can do it virtually. Elizabeth Larrick is an attorney who also does focus group consulting, and in this episode she shares insights into how this is no...
172: Review of The Law+Tech Evolution (with Denise Howell)
The 80/20 Principle - October 05, 2021 08:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsCalifornia attorney Denise Howell reflects on the many changes that technology has brought to the practice of law over the past two decades. Denise Howell was working in a large L.A. firm when started the fourth lawyer weblog. Five years later she went out on her own, and also was the host of ...
171: Virtual Executive Assistants (with Valerie Trapunsky)
The 80/20 Principle - September 28, 2021 08:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsA virtual executive assistant can be a boon to your productivity. But how can you get a good EA and what is it like to work with one? One person who knows is Valerie Trapunsky, the founder of a virtual assistance company called ChatterBoss. Her company pairs virtual executive assistants with e...
170: Effective Decision-Making for Lawyers
The 80/20 Principle - September 21, 2021 08:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsHow can we make better, more effective decisions? It's important to find out because the quality of our lives is determined by the quality of our decisions. Many of our decisions are impaired even before we start to make them because of cognitive blind spots. So what are some examples of these...
169: Self Sufficiency
The 80/20 Principle - September 14, 2021 08:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsThe less you need to rely on other people the greater your flexibility and resilience. The same goes for relying on resources. Keep your needs to a minimum to survive and thrive. In this episode, Ernie focuses on several key principles to help you be as self-sufficient as possible. Show Note...
168: The New Law Business Model (with Ali Katz)
The 80/20 Principle - September 07, 2021 08:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsA new law business model is vital now. Ali Katz’s book explains exactly how lawyers should revamp their practices to make them more enjoyable and more profitable. Ali's NLBM is most beneficial to lawyers with estate planning or business law practices that use flat-fee pricing, but the principl...
167: Crisis Management for Lawyers
The 80/20 Principle - August 31, 2021 21:03 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsLearning how to manage a catastrophic crisis like the hurricane that just hit New Orleans (or fires, earthquakes, and pandemics) will help you in everyday life for reasons that are surprising. Even "smart people" wind up making bad decisions in a crisis. But a prepared person who isn't that "s...
166: Q&A: Advice to a New Lawyer
The 80/20 Principle - August 24, 2021 08:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsWhen starting a new firm, what types of things are important to get right in the beginning to scale later? That's the question I was asked recently by a new lawyer. The answer is applicable or at least helpful to any lawyer thinking about how to improve their practice. Show Notes- Advice to...
165: Flat Fee Billing & Other Alternatives (with Kristin Tyler)
The 80/20 Principle - August 17, 2021 08:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsHistorically, the flat fee was the only "ethical fee" for lawyers. Now, it's more often the most sensible type of fee—both for clients and lawyers. The question is: what kind of flat fees are most successful and profitable for lawyers? In this episode, Kristin Tyler shares insights gleaned fr...
164: Being a Mom While Creating Law Practice (with Kim Felton)
The 80/20 Principle - August 10, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsKim Felton had her first child in law school, then figured out how to be a lawyer and build an online Immigration practice, using technology as much as possible. In this episode, she shares her challenges and how she met them using exceptional wile and grit, and by discovering how best to levera...
163: Visualizing Workflows using Kanban Boards (with John Grant)
The 80/20 Principle - August 03, 2021 08:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsMaking your work visible is vital for knowledge workers (like lawyers), and the best way of doing that is by using a Kanban Board. Task managers just can't cut it. In this episode, Ernie talks with John Grant a consultant who helps fellow lawyers fix their legal workflows using Kanban Boards t...
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