Latest Lawfirmpracticemanagement Podcast Episodes
137: Reflections on Systematizing Your Law Firm (with Kerry Wallis)
The 80/20 Principle - February 02, 2021 09:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsKerry 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 epis...
136: Subscription Outsourcing of Legal Work (with Kristin Tyler)
The 80/20 Principle - January 26, 2021 09:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsIf you’re need to hire an associate but don't have enough work for a full-time person check out a legal outsourcing service called Lawclerk. In this episode Kristin Tyler (one of the founders) explains how their service works, and talks about their new subscription program. Show Notes LawCl...
135: Persuasion & Polarization
The 80/20 Principle - January 19, 2021 09:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsYou can learn to be more persuasive, but if you want to learn the most important elements then you should read the short book discussed in this episode. You'll also learn why polarization is persuasive even though it's usually immoral and improper. Episode Notes The One Sentence Persuasion C...
134: Be a Better Lawyer (wtih Dina Cataldo)
The 80/20 Principle - January 12, 2021 09:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsLearn how to recover 5 more hours of your time per week. Dina Cataldo is a criminal defense lawyer turned coach who helps lawyers master time-management, grow their businesses, and have more fun. In this episode, she and Ernie talk about getting leverage in your law business and gaining margin...
133: SWOT Analysis
The 80/20 Principle - January 05, 2021 09:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsLeveraging strengths and conquering weaknesses is vital to your success. When you harness strengths you can make big improvements in your practice that make your life a lot easier. The key to doing this is with a well-known 4-step analysis called S.W.O.T. which many business managers find to b...
132: Update: Paperless Lawyering
The 80/20 Principle - December 29, 2020 09:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsThe less paper you handle the more freedom you have in your practice. David Sparks is a California business attorney who teaches others how to use technology to shed paper and be more productive and less stressed out. While he focuses on Mac-based technology in terms of the tools he uses, his ...
131: A Tool for Documenting Systems
The 80/20 Principle - December 22, 2020 09:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsYou want your practice to run better, with less involvement on your part. But there are several challenges to making this happen. One is finding the best tool to document, refine, and optimize all your workflows. The more workflows you document the less involved you can be. The better those wo...
130: Trust Your Intuition
The 80/20 Principle - December 15, 2020 09:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsYour intuition is a vast repository of life experiences, insights, and deep knowledge. There are times you should trust your intuition, and times when not doing so will put you in peril. In this episode, you'll discover when and how to tap into the immense power of your subconscious knowledge to...
129: Cranking The Gears of Your Business
The 80/20 Principle - December 08, 2020 09:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsDocumenting your workflows is boring but essential if you want to crank the gears of your law business, and evolve into something that doesn’t depend on you doing all the work and making all the decisions. Why is it so hard to document workflows? Well, it has to do with the nature of the work ...
128: Subscription pricing with Dan Lear
The 80/20 Principle - December 01, 2020 09:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsHere are links resources mentioned during the episode : Financially Legal Podcast (Dan Lear’s podcast) Dan's White Paper on Subscription legal services How do you “show up” for your clients? (Dan Lear podcast episode with Kim Bennett) Can you sell legal services by subscription? (Dan L...
127: Accountability Drives Growth (with Melissa Shanahan)
The 80/20 Principle - November 24, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsMelissa Shanahan is a business coach who helps solo and small firm lawyers make massive changes to their practices —by harnessing the power of accountability. She does this through her 30-day “sprints” and exclusive Mastery Groups. In this episode, Melissa and I discuss things like super-think...
126: Online reviews with Andy Stickel
The 80/20 Principle - November 17, 2020 09:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsGetting clients to write reviews is vital to your marketing success, but most lawyers struggle to gather reviews. Andy Stickel has helped hundreds of lawyers develop solid marketing strategies, especially showing them how to effectively and most easily gather reviews that are posted online. Hi...
125: Case Study - Attorney Pete Clancy
The 80/20 Principle - November 10, 2020 09:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsAfter doing commercial litigation in an Oakland law firm, Pete Clancy and his wife started their own personal injury law firm. Pete is a member of the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association where he strives to help fellow lawyers learn to improve their practices in various ways, including the s...
124: Low-Cost Outsourcing
The 80/20 Principle - November 03, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsIn his law practice, Joey helps entrepreneurs protect their brands by securing trademarks. And he’s also a brand strategist and entrepreneur. In this episode, he and Ernie talk about how he is able to find and hire virtual assistants for as little as $6 per hour. He also shares his special hac...
123: E-Discovery Opportunities
The 80/20 Principle - October 27, 2020 08:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsAndy Wilson is the CEO of Logikcull, an e-discovery company that (in his words) aims to “democratize the process of discovery.” With over 1,300 law firm clients, Logikcull has been responsible for helping process many terabytes of valuable data. And as a result, they have their finger on the pul...
122: The Tax Terminator
The 80/20 Principle - October 20, 2020 08:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsLarry Weinstein understands the special needs of lawyers and helps them create clever tax plans to save more money. As he points out “the less you pay in unnecessary taxes, the more money you can invest in your life and business.” In this episode, Larry shares six tax-reducing strategies that ...
121: Mind Over Law
The 80/20 Principle - October 13, 2020 08:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsLexlee Overton became a trial lawyer just like her dad, but then found herself anxiety-ridden and suffering from what she terms “trial psychosis.” She learned to overcome her stress and turned to helping other lawyers. Now she helps lawyers learn how to use scientifically proven techniques to tr...
120: People Over Technology
The 80/20 Principle - October 06, 2020 08:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsVisionary attorney Matt Homann shares insights garnered from practicing law as a solo lawyer, and as a consultant who now helps businesses innovate in practical ways. Among the topics discussed are the joys and practical benefits of systematically firing clients, the “ideal average client,” an...
119: How Small Things Make a Big Difference
The 80/20 Principle - September 29, 2020 08:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsThere are three important things to leverage to make your law business easier to manage: (1) The Tetris Business Model; (2) the power of short phrases, single words and even single letters; and (3) the importance of focusing on curiosity over opinions. Let’s talk about how these things relate to...
118: How to Get Free Advertising Online
The 80/20 Principle - September 22, 2020 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsBelow are the resources Ernie discussed in this episode. How to use free online “billboards” to market your practice, blog post by Ernie (summarizes the points covered in the podcast) Loom video demo- (Ernie demonstrates how he tweaks his LinkedIn “headline” bio on his iPhone) Linktr.ee se...
117: Frameworks, Tags & Two Important Books
The 80/20 Principle - September 15, 2020 08:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsFrameworks (or “mental models”) help you better leverage high-value information, such as the kind you’ll find in books like the ones I discuss in this episode. And when you’re organizing information you should consider using tags as much as possible (and be aware of how they are better than fold...
116: Zooming out
The 80/20 Principle - September 08, 2020 08:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsIf you feel like you have too many responsibilities, tasks or things you’re “supposed to do,” then you’re probably feeling anxious. The key to ridding yourself of this kind of anxiety is learning to zoom out and put things in a larger context. In short, greater perspective will cure harmful perf...
115: Chatbots are helpful
The 80/20 Principle - September 01, 2020 08:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsShow Notes While some prospects want to talk to a person at the law firm, many want answers to questions without having to book a call. For example, in family law situations, many clients want to ask questions by texting so their soon-to-be ex-spouse won’t overhear. So chatbots are being wid...
114: Systems Building with Attorney Jeff Lewis
The 80/20 Principle - August 25, 2020 08:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsLearning to systematize your practice isn’t that hard, and so it helps to hear how other lawyers are tackling this important aspect of running their businesses. Jeff Lewis is quite thoughtful and incisive because he just spent time focusing on developing systems in Ernie’s new course on systems ...
113: Evernote for Lawyers (with David Ward)
The 80/20 Principle - August 18, 2020 16:50 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsEvernote is for lawyers as much as it is for anyone else. And no lawyer knows more about using it well than David Ward (the author of Evernote for Lawyers). David shares his insights about how to get more organized with Evernote. But he's also is a thoughtful student of marketing, which many ...
113: Evernote for Lawyers (plus marketing)
The 80/20 Principle - August 18, 2020 16:50 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsLawyer David Ward is the author of Evernote for Lawyers. David is a thoughtful student of productivity and marketing, and shares his insights about how to get more organized with Evernote. And he explains why successful marketing is merely an extension of who you are, and not so much something y...
112: Digital Evidence
The 80/20 Principle - August 11, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsShow Notes Craig Ball is a highly successful plaintiff’s lawyer who became a nationally respected computer forensic examiner. He is currently teaching a course on digital evidence at Tulane Law School. He teaches regularly at the University of Texas Law School (his alma mater) and Georgetown U...
111: Amazing transcription tool (and more…)
The 80/20 Principle - August 04, 2020 08:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsStreamlining and improving your key workflows can result in improved revenues and profits for your firm, like Lori Gonzales discussed in this blog post (i.e. 260% revenue increase for a solo practitioner in less than six months. As she said, just being curious about how to leverage technology ...
110: Information Anxiety
The 80/20 Principle - July 28, 2020 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsInformation overload created by digital technology causes us a lot of anxiety. But the real source of trouble is less obvious. Once you get clear about the root cause of anxiety you can better understand how to counteract it. Information Anxiety, by Richard Saul Wurman (an invaluable guidebo...
109: Improving Your "Knowledge Factory"
The 80/20 Principle - July 21, 2020 08:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsShow Notes In the Information Age you need to understand how to more effectively process information, and how to create valuable knowledge. You need to be systematic and thoughtful. And you need a good way to capture ideas and refine them over time to create valuable knowledge. Let’s talk abou...
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