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...
After a career in corporate America, Ruth Kaufman launched into her second act, leaving the security of her day job behind. Kaufman had been acting and doing voice work for two decades, a long enough runaway that she was confident in her ability to succeed in the creative work she was prepared to make her day job. Ruth Kaufman’s Second Act In Episode 23 of Lawyerpreneur, Ruth Kaufman and I discuss her second act of acting, writing award-winning novels, and other creative work. You can listen here or on your favorite podcast apps: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart...
This is the Lawyerpreneur episode that I should have recorded yesterday. That I should have released yesterday. But I didn’t. You want to know why? Because I chickened out. Because this episode is about how personal relationships are central to our businesses and necessary for our long-term success. And it’s somewhat personal, so I bailed on it. Then I felt ashamed of myself the rest of the day. This is a topic that I’ve been thinking about for a week. Ever since I went to visit my mentor last week who is in the last stages of terminal cancer. So...
Our regularly scheduled programming got derailed by both life and work this past week. So Episode 21 of Lawyerpreneur is a short episode with updates about various projects I’m working on both on my own and with other lawyers, and how you can interact with them. 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 can get 25% off one CLE seminar from ALPS. Go to alpsinsurance.com/cle and use promo...
We all have this hope, which is sometimes so strong as to become a belief, that it’s just a matter of time until we catch our big break. We are one personal interaction away from landing that big client that is going to change the landscape of our practice. My next book is going to land on the bestseller list. The next podcast episode is the one that is going to bring hoards of listeners. We want so badly for our big break to be right around the corner that we choose not to believe it is unlikely to materialize....
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