Haley Altman had just become an equity partner at her firm when she announced to her husband that she was resigning to pursue an opportunity that she knew she'd regret passing up. In one of my favorite interviews yet, Haley talks about her transition from a law practice to the CEO of a startup. We also discuss having an appetite for risk, considering the possibility of failure and worst possible outcomes, and stories about learning to manage people. [Note: We had some audio difficulties in recording, so there may be a bit of wonkiness with volume levels. But I think...
Michael La Ronn is an author (of 55 books since 2012!), podcaster, insurance professional, and law student. To make time in his schedule for creativity, he dedicates time in the morning to write and also fills the small cracks that might otherwise be wasted with writing time. Michael and I also talk about diversity in fiction writing and the importance of being your authentic self. You can follow Michael La Ronn's fiction work at michaellaronn.com and his non-fiction work at authorlevelup.com. For other episodes about diversity and authenticity, check out my interviews with Frank Ramos and Alex Su. Make Time...
In Episode 29 of Lawyerpreneur, I talk about exploring new solutions by thinking like a child, challenging conventional approaches to problems, and refusing to play your opponent's games. This episode is a snippet of two chapters of my second book, Stop Putting Out Fires, which you can purchase from your preferred retailer. Challenging Conventions with Creative Problem Solving You can listen here or on your favorite podcast apps: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, TuneIn, YouTube, and RSS. Today's show is sponsored by ALPS, the nation’s largest direct writer of lawyers’ malpractice insurance. Right now you can get...
In Episode 28 of Lawyerpreneur, Claire Parsons discusses how her mindfulness practice has helped her be a happier person and a better lawyer. We talk about how writing and speaking about mindfulness and struggles she has experienced has opened up a new community to her. And in my favorite segment on this episode, we discuss the importance of getting comfortable with your own weirdness.You can find and follow Claire Parsons on LinkedIn and on her YouTube channel. I also mention for the first time in this interview a novel I'm writing under a pseudonym. If you're interested, you can find...
When you love your work as an intellectual property rights lawyer and you're an artist at heart and you have small children, that might all culminate into writing a children's book to help children understand what intellectual property is from an early age. Or at least that's what happened for Atlanta-based lawyer, Becki C. Lee. Teaching Kids about Intellectual Property with Becki C. Lee A month or so into the COVID shutdown, she had an idea for a children's book about intellectual property rights. She sat down and wrote out a poem about what patents, trademarks, and copyright are so...
I was interviewed on Answering Legal's new podcast "Everything Except the Law," where we talked mindset, marketing, client relationships, and a dozen other things. Check it out on YouTube or your favorite podcatcher.
For as long as I've had the idea for Lawyerpreneur, Marc Randazza was always on the list of people I wanted to talk to. Sometimes when you've been thinking about something for so long and built up an expectation for it, you find that the thing can't actually live up to it. But that wasn't the situation with Marc Randazza. I derived the title from an H. L. Mencken quote that Marc recently tweeted: “The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are...
Be authentic. Be true. Present your successes. Talk about your failures. Discuss your struggles. Provide useful content. Develop relationships, not networks. Alex Su sees these ideas as fundamental to his social media marketing success. But they aren't just principles he applies, they are a part of who he has formed himself into. Alex Su talks marketing, career changes, and self awareness You can listen here or on your favorite podcast apps: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, TuneIn, and RSS. Today's show is sponsored by ALPS, the nation’s largest direct writer of lawyers’ malpractice insurance. Right now you...
For a while after my interview with Sam Mollaei, I was thinking about our conversation (and there was a lot to think about). I was struck with a line from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, when Butch says, "I got vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals." That's what it was like talking with Sam. He's applying proven business principles -- like sales funnels, automation, and scalability -- that five years from now, other lawyers will still be arguing with themselves that those ideas just wont work in their law practices. Sam's got vision while so many...
I wrote an article for DRI's September issue of For the Defense called, "The Comfortable Don't Grow: The Importance of Setting Goals and Implementing Metrics to Track Them". Goal-setting has been really transformative for me over the last four years. Then last year, I combined the ideas of goal-setting and metrics (KPIs) -- I know this isn't new to a lot of folks but it was revolutionary for me -- and elevated its effects. This article is about some of the things I've learned along the way. You can download the article below or access the magazine online: For the...
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