The Gen Y Lawyer Podcast: Recent Episodes
Nicole Abboud
Practicing law doesn't have to suck. Crafting a meaningful career is possible. Leaving the law doesn't have to be scary. That's why this show exists. You don't have to navigate through this profession and world as a Millennial lawyer alone.
Join host, Nicole Abboud, former practicing attorney, leadership speaker and consultant, each week as she brings you conversations with lawyers, legal innovators, and leaders in the profession to help you in your journey to building a meaningful life and fulfilling career.
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We’re celebrating our 200th episode by answering your questions. We’ve sharing our thoughts on work/life balance, content creation, branding, advancing women in the profession, and securing sponsors.
Thank you for your attention and support over the years. It means a lot to me!
Resources Mentioned:
ABA Commission on Women in the Legal Profession study
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It’s the last week to join in on the 200th episode celebration by submitting your question via voice message at www.genylawyer.com/speak
Joining us in this episode is Nora Riva Bergman, attorney, law firm coach, and author of 50 Lessons for Lawyers: Earn More, Stress Less, Be Awesome and 50 Lessons for Women Lawyers – From Women Lawyers. She is joining us to chat a bit about the lessons she’s learned along the way in her life and that she covers in her books.
Resources Mentioned:
Atticus Advantage website
Marshall Goldsmith – What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There
Contact Information:
Twitter: @lawfirmcoach
www.reallifepractice.com
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Celebrate our 200th episode with us by sending us your questions! We want to hear your questions and answer them on-air in just a few weeks. Leave your Q’s as a voice message over on www.genylawyer.com/speak
Joining me in this episode is healthcare lawyer, personal trainer, health coach, plant-based chef, and host of the Fit to Practice Podcast, Angela Han. While attending college in the U.S. after having moved here from South Korea, Angela developed an eating disorder. She struggled with this for 7 years until she was able to begin to turn her life around. Angela joins us to share her story of recovery and how she was able to reclaim her identity and life.
Resources Mentioned:
Timothy Pakron – Mississippi Vegan
The Money Love Course
Contact Information:
Website - www.angela-han.com
Fit to Practice Podcast
LinkedIn profile
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During the first few years of Dina Cataldo’s career with the District Attorneys office, things took a turn. She was in the midst of prepping for trials when she received a diagnosis of breast cancer three years into her five-year plan for success. That diagnosis forced her to pause and reevaluate the way she was living her life. It also forced her to face her fears and go after the life she truly wanted.
Dina is a prosecutor, life and career coach, and host of The Soul Roadmap Podcast.
Grab Dina’s free resources just for you as a listener and be sure to connect with her:
www.dinacataldo.com/genwhy
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Celebrate our 200th episode with us (in September) by leaving your voicemail question by August 30th, 2019 and we’ll answer your question on air! Leave your question here www.genylawyer.com/speak
Joining me today is Sam Glover, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of www.lawyerist.com, an online community of innovative lawyers building the future of law and a place for lawyers to learn how to start, manage, and grow a modern law practice
Sam is just splendid and I think by the end of this episode, you will see why. Sam’s vision of what the future of law can and should be is refreshing and definitely worth listening to, especially if you’re a lawyer who wishes to build a law practice that thrives in the future. Along with learning more about the Small Firm and Solo Practice Score Card, which can help lawyers assess their strengths and ascertain how to improve and grow, we also dive into Sam’s life as a father of two daughters and an avid skateboarder.
Resources Mentioned:
Jordan Furlong's book – Law is a Buyer’s Market
Rebecca Sandefur's study
Contact Information:
www.lawyerist.com
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This episode originally aired as Episode 143 on May 7, 2018.
After two decades, Lee Rosen figured out how to own a lucrative law firm without having to work in his firm 24/7/365. One he realized he could be the owner, not the practitioner, Lee found a team to run the business and then sold it. Now, he travels full-time while teaching other lawyers how they can build their practices into sellable businesses.
Lee joins former host, Karima Gulick, in this episode to share how he built a lucrative firm, how he set up his systems that eventually helped him expand his business, and how you can build a solid business that allows you to work from anywhere.
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No, your LinkedIn profile should not just be a replica of your resume. While LinkedIn used to be the most boring of all the social media platforms, it has evolved over the years. It is now a place where lawyers and other professionals gather to connect, engage, and do business.
Joining me to share her insight on how to bring your LinkedIn profile and engagement to life is digital and social media marketing consultant and teacher working with lawyers, law firms, and legal marketers, Nancy Myrland of Myrland Marketing.
Resources Mentioned:
Headliner
Coschedule
Buffer
Sprout Social
Checklist: LinkedIn for Lawyers: Eight Essential Ways to Get Noticed By the Right People
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Sexual harassment and bullying in the workplace occur more frequently than one would think. For many lawyers who find themselves victims of sexual harassment and assault, it can be difficult to speak up or seek the necessary help, especially in the workplace. They suffer in silence out of fear that speaking up will cause too much damage to their careers or that their reports won’t be taken seriously.
Joining me to shed light on sexual harassment, bullying, and what law firms should be doing to end workplace harassment is Lauren Rikleen, Founder and President of the Rikleen Institute for Strategic Leadership. She is the author of the new book: The Shield of Silence: How Power Perpetuates a Culture of Harassment and Bullying in the Workplace.
Lauren speaks, trains, and consults on a variety of issues relating to workplace culture including women’s leadership and retention, unconscious bias, multi-generational teams, and negative workplace conduct including sexual harassment.
Resources and Contact Information:
Lauren's books
www.rikleeninstitute.com
lrikleen@rikleeninstitute.com
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Customers don’t want to be sold to. However, they do want to hear from business owners who can offer solutions to their problems. So how can you craft your marketing and sales messages in a way that resonates with your prospective clients and gets them to take action? Through storytelling!
I’m joined by Chris Lema, leader, speaker, and Vice President of Products and Innovation at Liquid Web. Chris is a master storyteller with a story for every scenario. He shares a few of his powerful storytelling techniques in this episode.
Contact Information:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/chrislema
www.chrislema.com
Chris’s Leadership Blog
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What do Millennial lawyers want? What drives them? How can law firm leaders better understand them and how to work with them in order to create a harmonious and productive workplace?
I'm joined by lawyer, author, speaker, and law career counselor Susan Smith Blakely, author of What Millennial Lawyers Want to chat all about Millennial lawyers.
Susan and I explore why finding meaning in one's career is so important to young lawyers, what lessons we can learn from lawyers of the Greatest Generation, and how we can all make the profession a a better place going forward.
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If you’re convinced that you have a powerful message, valuable insight, or helpful experience when it comes to your practice area or business subject matter, then you must share it with the world. This particular episode is focused on one way you can do that using live streaming video but ultimately, the platform doesn’t matter. The message and your dedication to consistently showing up and sharing your knowledge is what will help you build brand awareness and grow your business.
I’m joined by livestreaming coach and trainer, speaker, and author, Jenny Q. Jenny Q has been in the digital and social media marketing space for many years, and now she teaches professionals how to use live video to build their brands. She literally wrote the book on livestreaming, called Leverage Livestreaming to Build Your Brand: Start, Master, and Monetize Live Video.
Jenny shares why all lawyers should be using live video to build their practices and even walks us through the exact process of starting, delivering, and ending our live broadcasts powerfully.
Contact Information:
16 Point Checklist for Going Live - Text “checklist” to 345345
www.jennyqlive.com
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Whether you love it or hate it, you can’t ignore the importance of technology in helping change the legal profession. If you’re hoping to continue to build an innovative law practice that differentiates itself based on its services and/or that offers a product that helps bridge the access to justice, you’ll be interested to hear what my guest today has to say about how lawyers are using technology to accomplish these goals.
Joining me for this conversation is former litigator and current Founder and CEO of Theory and Principle, a legal technology product design and development firm, Nicole Bradick. Nicole is an expert in the legal tech space and super knowledgeable about building great legal products.
Resources Mentioned:
Typeform
Concierge Wills and Trusts
Hello Divorce
Brittany Ratelle
Contact Information:
Twitter @nicolebradick
www.theoryandprinciple.com
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Many Millennials are at a point in their lives where they’re thinking about having or are already having babies. The thought of having children while managing a full workload as a lawyer can be stressful because, lets face it, being a parent is a full time job on its own. So if you’re considering starting a family, are currently pregnant, or already have a kiddo, what can you be doing right now to best prepare yourself for parenthood while also running your law practice?
I’m joined by Family Law attorney and Certified Family Law Specialist in Redondo Beach, Ca, Lovette Mioni. Lovette runs her own law practice and along with her husband, is raising two young children. She joins me to talk about how having children affected her business and changed her view of how she wanted to practice. She talks to me about what she had to do to prepare her assistant and those she worked with to carry on with office work while she was on leave and what she did to manage her client’s expectations while she was unavailable.
Contact Information:
Mionifamilylaw.com
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Are you inching closer and closer to burnout? Be honest! You might be. It’s fairly common for high achievers to burn out, especially if they’re not taking care of themselves physically and mentally. That’s what happened to me at the end of last year, 2018, when I found myself facing a breakdown of the sort I’ve never experienced before. I had been busy trying to grow my business for two years that I drove myself into the ground.
Luckily, I discovered meditation and yoga right at the 11th hour. In this episode, I share a personal story about how I how I spent 2 years building a business that led me to a breakdown, the one thing I did that proved to be a breakthrough, how I became 10% happier, and how you can too.
Joining me for segments of this conversation are attorneys and yoga and meditation instructors Lee Holcomb and Joanna McCracken of www.lawyersandyoga.com
Resources Mentioned:
Million Dollar Consulting by Alan Weiss
Social Media Detox Episode 185
10% Happier by Dan Harris
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We are living in a DIY world and lawyers can no longer be protective of their old ways of practicing law. Consumers are turning online for legal answers and many even go to YouTube to get help. This is a good sign for lawyers looking to fill a gap in the market by providing help to consumers who don’t need full representation but instead, require help with a specific aspect of their legal matter. That’s why I wanted to explore the world of limited scope representation.
This conversation will shed light on the growing appeal of limited scope representation, especially for lawyers who are seeking an alternative way of practicing law. Joining me are Brooke Moore and Laura O’Bryan, co-Founders of MyVirtual.Lawyer, a virtual law firm offering limited scope representation in the areas of Family Law, Estate Planning, and Business Law. Brooke and Laura break down what limited scope representation is, how it can help your existing law firm grow (or how it can replace your existing practice all together), and what you can do to get started with LSR.
Contact Information:
Lawyering Outside the Lines live show on Facebook at 12pm CT
www.myvirtual.lawyer
brooke@myvirtual.lawyer
laura@myvirtual.lawyer
Brooke on Twitter: https://twitter.com/virtuallawgirl
Laura on Twitter: https://twitter.com/virtuallawlady
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Along with running her own Immigration Law firm, Genie Doi is pioneering her way through the esports industry. Esports is professional video gaming and it is a booming industry! Genie gives us a little glimpse into this world and shares the immigration work she’s doing for these players. Then, our conversation shifts to talking about our own experiences as children of immigrants. This one is a powerful one!
To get in touch with Genie, find her at www.immigrate.la or on Twitter @puregenieus
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On March 3rd, 2019, I woke up, I went to Instagram and proceeded to delete the app off of my phone. I also deleted the Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, and LinkedIn apps and made the decision to not log in for the next 30 days. I needed a break.
I’m a social media-lover so this decision was huge for me, but it was necessary. I noticed that there's this feeling of overwhelm going around when it comes to social media. There’s a lot of push back against this state of always having to post on the platform in order to remain relevant. Many people are outright deleting their accounts because they're exhausted. As more and more articles surface highlighting the negative effects of social media on our mental health and behaviors, the more intrigued I became with reassessing my own usage of the platforms.
In this episode, I share the results of my 30-day social media detox experiment and describe how I plan on using the platforms in a more sustainable way going forward.
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The legal environment these days almost demands that lawyers become experts in their practice areas. So before you can begin building your authority in a specific practice area or industry, it’s important to select a niche that provides the best possibilities for growth. That’s what we’re discussing in this episode: how to identify the five qualities of a lucrative business niche to build your law practice around.
Joining me today is Jacob Slowik, a partner with Joseph, Aleem & Slowik who represents healthcare businesses and co-author of the book, Small Law; Big Success: How to Use Business Niche Specialization to Grow a Multi-Million Dollar Law Practice. Jake and his law firm partners built a multi-million-dollar law practice before they were 30 years old. That is impressive! They did this by using a novel strategy of business niche specialization.
Prior to Joseph, Aleem & Slowik, LLC, Mr. Slowik was an attorney with the real estate practice group of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP in New York, New York. Mr. Slowik is a graduate of Harvard Law School and received his B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University.
Resources Mentioned:
Carolyn Elefant’s emerging practice areas list
Contact Information:
www.elgaronline.com
www.josephaleem.com
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- Giveaway runs from April 1, 2019 to April 15, 2019 at 5pm PT
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Growing a practice is never easy. There are many moving parts to think about at all times: marketing, legal work, admin work, accounting and client communication. In this episode, Karima shares some behind the scenes on growing a law practice, hiring a part time assistant, launching an online course and Voice search. Voice search is here to stay, and it’s something we cannot neglect as we’re growing our law firms and brands.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- Hiring an assistant
- Content marketing and search engine optimization
- Online courses: Content, marketing and the technology
- Voice Search and how it’s affecting search engine optimizations
- Tweaks to your content to make it relevant to voice search
- What’s a flash briefing and how to start one.
Resources Mentioned:
Previous Gen Y Lawyer Episodes
Jenn Ruiz, the attorney and travel blogger
Dina Eisenbergon delegating -
Cindy Nicholsonon building an online course
https://maketraffichappen.com– to learn about SEO
Tim Ferris 4hour work week
Kajabi.com – a platform for online courses
Teachable.com – a platform for online courses
Upwork.com – A freelancing platform where you can find your next Virtual assistant.
https://medium.com/effct-voice/how-to-quickly-and-easily-start-an-amazon-alexa-flash-briefing-370a843194db
https://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/alexa-flash-briefings-what-marketers-need-to-know-chris-brogan/
https://texaslaborlawblog.com– A blawg launched by one of our listeners
https://kgulick.com– to see what I’ve been up to and content progress.
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Jeffrey Greenman is a solo practitioner at GREENMANLAW P.C. in Aliso Viejo, CA. He specializes in catastrophic personal injury and medical malpractice cases and is often hired for his abilities in premises liability and medical malpractice cases as they approach trial. In this episode, he shares his story about how he got started in a crowded practice area and how he made a name for himself. He also talks about how he got started in real estate investing.
Jeff has developed and had interests in real estate projects throughout the United States worth over $300 million, including over 500,000 square feet of commercial retail space. He has worked on ground up construction projects for Hyatt Hotels as well land entitlement for large scale home builders in the Detroit area. Recently Jeff has focused on syndicated purchases of NNN single tenant industrial and commercial properties, with notable tenants such as Caterpillar, Premier Packaging and American Fire Protection Group.
In this episode we discuss:
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Starting a personal injury practice,
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Popular multi-million-dollar verdicts, how much do attorneys get to take home, and how much work goes into those cases
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How to get started in real estate investing,
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Best practice for real estate investment.
Contact Information:
Greenmanlawpc.com
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We are celebrating our four-year anniversary on the pod! Yowza! Thank you so much for your continued support. It means the world to Karima and me. In this celebratory episode, Karima and I are chatting about a symptom that many Millennials seem to be suffering from and don’t even realize it – Millennial burnout. We also touch upon the issue of perfectionism that many lawyers find themselves grappling with. Must we spend hours reviewing a simple email out of fear of sending a less-than-perfect draft? We round out the conversation by exploring what “self-care” really means and if it truly lives up to its promise.
Resources Mentioned:
How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation article
Millennials Care About Job Titles So Much They'll Take a Pay Cut For Them article
Millennial Attorneys and the Pressure to Be Perfect article
Preply language learning website
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For many, public speaking is terrifying. For others, it’s just a fun hobby. For me, having the opportunity to stand in front of a crowd and capture their attention for a prolonged period of time is a privilege and an opportunity for business development, when done right. Over the past 7 years, when I decided to take public speaking more seriously and to make it part of my business, I’ve learned how to work the stage, so to speak, to make public speaking an additional source of revenue in my business.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- Before you begin your speaking journey, you should know what you’re talking about
- Why selecting a few topics to become known for is way more effective than listing about 30 things you can talk about
- Practice and preparation is key and can mean the difference between delivering a mediocre presentation and delivering a presentation that helps you secure business long after you present
- Even if you’re serving on a panel with others, how can you best prepare?
- Set up a speakers page either on an existing website or as an entire website dedicated to you as a speaker
- Should you speak for free or only accept engagements that pay you?
- What can you be doing with your slides to help provide the necessary information for attendees to know about you
- When responding to questions
- How can you promote an upcoming speaking engagement on social media without sounding obnoxious?
- What is the best way to get the most out of video footage that you might have recorded while you were presenting?
- How to find conferences to apply to speak at
Resources Mentioned:
The Rebel Speaker Podcast (now renamed the Rebel Rising)
The Speaker Lab demo video episodes, Ep. 40 and 56
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The way you think about things affect how you feel and that impacts how you behave and how you show up in the world. If you’re like me, you might have a lot of negative self-talk that feels limiting. If only we knew how to change our mindset, we could probably unlock a whole new level of amazingness, right? Well, let’s undo some mindset damage, shall we?
My guest today is Master Certified Life Coach, former women’s rights lawyer, and host of the popular podcast, Unf*ck Your Brain, Kara Loewentheil. Kara holds a B.A. from Yale and a J.D. from Harvard Law. She helps women break through their confidence issues and negative self-talk and finally put into action their true desires. Her work isn’t based on manifestation and law of attraction bs, it’s rooted in cognitive psychology-based techniques and feminist theory.
Kara shares how we can decipher between helpful and unhelpful thoughts, what the two steps are to begin retraining our brains, why “fake it til you make it” is utter crap, and how to assess our thoughts throughout the day.
Contact Information:
Unf*ck Your Brain Podcast
5 Day Confidence Challenge
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As we celebrate Valentine’s Day this week (and yes, we realize this is a totally made up “holiday”), we thought it’d be fun to talk about love and relationships as a lawyer. Lawyers are busy and often work long hours so finding time to date or nurture a loving relationship can often be difficult.
Joining me today is Dr. Sharon Cohen, relationship and love consultant. She received her PhD from the University of Texas and has been helping busy professionals have committed and fulfilling relationships.
Dr. Cohen shares why it’s important for women to tap into their inner energy when seeking a partner, how you can reignite the spark in a long-term relationship, and how to make time for your loved ones.
Contact Information:
sharon@drsharoncohen.com
www.drsharoncohen.com
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California-based lawyer, law professor, writer, and accomplished speaker Rachel Gezerseh is the author of The Law Career Playbook (February 2019), which focuses on helping new and aspiring lawyers learn to market themselves and get ahead in the competitive legal industry. After 10 years as a Business Litigator at Jones Day in Los Angeles, Rachel is now a partner at boutique law firm Liang Ly LLP and continues to focus on complex commercial litigation in federal and state courts. She recently joined the part-time faculty at the University of Southern California as an adjunct law professor. In addition to creating the popular Break Into BigLaw and BIBL Voices blogs, Rachel has also been featured in Bloomberg Big Law Business and ABA For Law Students. Rachel holds a law degree from Southwestern Law School.
Rachel shares with us:
- A blueprint of how she landed her dream job,
- Tips on how to differentiate yourself in the legal marketplace,
- How to network strategically
- And on becoming a law professor.
Contact Information:
Blog: www.breakintobiglaw.com
www.lawcareerplaybook.com
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There is more to social media than just mindless scrolling and Instagram rabbit holes. In fact, Jaime Santos and Kendyl Hanks have managed to create a forum celebrating women in the law, highlighting their war stories, and occasionally outing stupid sexist stuff under the Twitter account @LadyLawyerDiary
Kendyl is an appellate advocate, who litigates high-stakes business litigation and test cases involving contract disputes, fraud, fiduciary duty, alter ego, constitutional law, to name a few.
Jaime A. Santos is an appellate litigation associate where works on cases in the U.S. Supreme Court and federal appellate and trial courts, on a wide range of cases. She has helped to spearhead sexual harassment reforms within the federal judiciary and has testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding these issues.
Jaime and Kendyl share:
- How the idea for the account @LadyLawyerDiary came about, their main goal and purpose for the forum,
- Changes and impact made by the forum in the community,
- Why they chose Twitter as opposed to other social media platforms,
- And interesting stories from account users.
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Contact Information:
https://twitter.com/LadyLawyerDiary
https://twitter.com/ClerksForChange
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Is it time to rethink success? Maybe you dream of buying a big house or you want to travel all over the world. Maybe you want to work fewer hours each week or you want to spend more time with your family. Lawyers have so many aspirations but for some reason, we tend to think that there is only one way to achieve those dreams – work ridiculously hard for many years and then eventually, acquire everything you want. Well, it’s time to get creative and smart with how we make our money and how we craft our dream lives.
If that’s what you want, then it’s time to opt out.
Joining me on the show today to explain what opting out means is attorney, entrepreneur, law professor, and LinkedIn Learning educator, Dana Robinson. Dana shares his proposal for a new way of achieving success and wealth which rely on three income pillars:
- Establishing a side gig
- Owning a business
- Investing in real estate
A huge thank you goes to our two show sponsors:
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Resources Mentioned:
The last time Dana was here - Episode 49
The 4 Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss
Opt Out by Dana Robinson
Contact Information:
www.danarobinson.com
dana@danarobinson.com
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You are going to be moved by my guest today, Jennifer Hoverstad. Her story will make you reconsider your priorities and will force you to reevaluate where and with whom you’re spending your time.
Jen is a lawyer, speaker, and breast cancer survivor. In 2018, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and her life changed for ever! She was courageous enough to share her treatment journey on social media and through her blog. Jen's authenticity and openness with her treatment journey broke down the fear and anxiety often associated with cancer and allowed her to connect with other women who were going through similar journeys.
Jen's Contact Information:
www.jenhoverstad.com
Instagram: @jenhoverstad
Twitter: @jenhoverstad
Jenfluence on Facebook
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Seeing that it’s the beginning of a brand new year, assuming you’re listening to this right when it airs, I thought it would be perfect to talk about clarifying our vision, laying down some goals, and fiercely chasing after them. Whether you already set your intentions for the year or you’re just now getting around to thinking about the year ahead, it’s never too late to learn how to properly align your goals for the year with your vision for your life and career. If you’re thinking of adding a new practice area, transitioning to a new job, or leaving the law all together, you’ll find the courage and the action plan in this episode.
Joining me to help us do just that is attorney, speaker, author, and personal and professional development strategic coach, Heather Hubbard.
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Highlights from the Conversation:
- Start with your vision of what you want in life (and you can DREAM BIG here!)
- What if you can’t formulate your vision because it’s too scary or overwhelming? What do you do then?
- Once you’ve locked down your vision, you have to ask yourself: where am I now and where do I want to be?
- After setting your strategy, you then begin to lay down some goals to support the strategy
- What should you use to measure your progress and determine if you’re even moving in the right direction?
- When you finally reach your goal(s), you should celebrate! So should you pop bottles, buy new clothes, or celebrate with others?
Resources Mentioned:
Life and Law Planner
Hustle and Flow Podcast
Contact Information:
www.heatherjoyhubbard.com
Instagram: @heatherjoyhubbard
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It has been a whole year since I hosted this show so in this bonus episode, I update you on what I've been doing and where Karima and I plan on taking this show.
It’s the last episode of 2018! What a whirlwind of a year it has been, right?
As we wind down for the year, I thought it would be great to invite Nicole Abboud, founder of this podcast, to join me in chatting about some of the resources, apps, and podcasts that got us through the year and helped our businesses grow.
Also, stick around until the end of the episode for a super special announcement!
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Resources Mentioned: :
Online Marketing Made Easy by Amy Porterfield
How I Built This by Guy Raz
The Gary Vee Audio Experience
The Minimalists Podcast
Happier with Gretchen Rubin
Ep. 142 Jason Gershenson
Trello
Dropbox
Venmo - phone app
LawPay
Quickbooks
Calendly
Stripe
Paypal
Sparemin
Zubtitle
Toggl
Upwork
Abby Connect
The One Thing Gary Keller
LegalMinds mastermind led by Mitch Jackson
Toastmasters International
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About this episode:
Talitha Gray Kozlowski and Kristin Tyler are Co-Founders of LAWCLERK, where attorneys go to hire freelance lawyers. LAWCLERK was designed to allow solo practitioners and small firms to tap into a nationwide network of skilled freelance attorneys and add subject matter expertise or an extra set of hands whenever they need it without increasing their overhead by adding full-time employees.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
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How the idea for LAWCLERK came about;
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Steps involved in hiring and finding the right contracting attorneys?
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Who the freelance attorneys on the platforms are;
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Most creative ways busy attorneys use LAWCLERK;
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Advice for overwhelmed attorneys who are hesitant to outsource.
Contact Information:
lawclerk.legal
Special Offer to our listeners:
The rebate code mentioned is GENWHY200 and they’ll send a $200 rebate check when a new user posts a project of $200 or more. This is a one-time per user code.
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I would really appreciate it if you shared this episode with a friend who could benefit from listening to this particular episode. If there is any topic you’d like us to cover or guest you’d like us to have on the show, you can email me at: karima@genwhylawyer.comAlso, don’t forget to subscribe to the GWL Podcast in Apple Podcasts or in Stitcher Radio. That way, every time I prepare a new episode for you, it’ll automatically show up in your phone.
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About this episode:
Mike Whelan is an author and podcaster. He writes about the future of attorney work, effective collaboration, and the legal supply chain. His book Lawyer Forward will be available January 29, 2019 on Amazon.com in both digital and print. Register at lawyerforward.com/bookupdates to stay informed about Mike's process for writing the book, as well as release news.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
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The lawyerforward conference and how Mike tried changing the way CLEs are taught and earned,
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The process of writing a book and sharing your ideas with the world,
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CEO v. expert and is this model feasible for solo/small firms.
Contact Information:
Twitter: @mikewhalenjr
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About this episode:
On this week’s episode, Jeff Richardson shares his story with us: how we started iphonejd.com and how he continues to blog about the latest tech tools in the market. iPhone J.D. is the oldest and largest website for lawyers using iPhones and iPads. Jeff is an attorney in New Orleans, Louisiana.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- How Jeff started his blog iphone JD, the oldest and largest website for lawyers using iPhones and iPads.
- How Jeff reconciles between his mac tools (iphone and the latest iPad pro and his Microsoft devices at his law firm)
- How to differentiate yourself as a young attorney in the marketplace.
Contact Information:
jeff@iphonejd.com
Twitter: @jeffrichardson(occasional updates from Jeff Richardson on iPhone topics and sometimes other items), and
Twitter: @iphonejd (automatic notice of every new post on iPhone J.D.)
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About our guest David Bitton:
As a best-selling author, CLE speaker, and founder of PracticePanther.com, David is obsessed with automating law firms with the help of today’s technology. He’s revolutionizing the legal industry by helping lawyers get more done in less time using PracticePanther’s law practice management software.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- How to automate and make your business and law practice efficient
- Automating social media
- Schedugram
- Hootsuite
- Using Upwork to find a content marketer / copywriter
- Email campaigns automated with mailchimp or infusionsoft or lawmatics
- How to make your day more efficient
- ABC of time management
- David Allen’s 2 minute rule
- Touch it once philosophy
- Get in early, or stay late
- Automating your practice, scaling up without losing quality of service without having to bring on other full time employees
- Live chat
- Virtual Receptionist
- lawPay, automated payment plans, invoice reminders
- Lawmatics – Automated email campaigns
- Acuity or Calendly for calendars or ai
- Calendar deadlines
- Docusign, AdobeSign, HelloSign, Lawmatics
- Lastpass
- Solo practices using excel/word and want to move to a docketing system, what are best practices to using a pr mgmt. software. Setting up businesses for success for 2019.
- Setup processes and procedures
- Setup intake forms, doc templates, and workflows
- Automating social media
Contact Information:
david@practicepanther.com
Resources
1 Month free trial to practice panther if you email David at david@practicepanther.com
https://www.upwork.com/
LawPay.com
Lawmatics.com
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Regina Edwards is the Owner and Managing Attorney of Edwards Family Law. She has been practicing law in Gwinnett County, Georgia since 2001 and went from having quite a few attorneys reporting to her to scaling it down to a firm of 3. I have been following her work online for over a year and really excited to have her on the show with us!
Thank you to our show sponsor Lexis Nexis. From predictive analytics to research solutions, legal tools from LexisNexis can help you research more thoroughly, work more efficiently and build stronger strategies. Visit http://lexisnexis.com/podcastand see how you can get a custom solution tailored precisely for your budget.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- How to delegate your intake practice and grow your business,
- How to scale your practice up or down to fit your personal needs,
- How to best market yourself.
Contact Information:
regina@edwardsfamilylaw.com
Resources
https://www.dubsado.com
https://www.smokeball.com/
https://www.upwork.com/
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Jordan Couch is an attorney and Cultural Ambassador at Palace Law where his practice focuses on plaintiff's side workers’ compensation and personal injury litigation. Outside of his practice Jordan is heavily involved in state, local, and national bar associations, advocating for a better, more client-centric future to the legal profession. Find him on social media @jordanlcouch or email jordan@palacelaw.com.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- Benefits of instilling values in your firm,
- Setting up proper expectations with your clients,
- Productivity hacks,
- Technology and methodologies to work efficiently.
Contact Information:
Twitter: www.twitter.com/jordanlcouch
jordan@palacelaw.com.
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I am honored to have Carolyn Elefant join us on the Gen Why Lawyer Podcast. She’s truly inspiring!
In this episode we discuss serving the community, niching and focusing new practice areas and bridging the access to justice in rural areas.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- Carolyn Elefant’s 7 figure e-book: a nontraditional way to market and grow your practice.
- Quality content to build authority in your field
- Pioneering new practice areas and how these innovative areas level out the playing field.
- Access to justice in remote rural areas and challenges these areas face despite technology improvements.
Contact Information:
Twitter: http://twitter.com/carolynelefant/
carolyn.elefant@gmail.com
Resources
https://myshingle.com/41practiceareasCaorlyn’s new book on 41 new practice areas that did not exist 15 years ago
https://vimeo.com/288630435- The 7 figure e-book webinar
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Billie Tarascio a family law attorney and owner of Modern Law, a six attorney family law firm in greater Phoenix, Access Legal, a legal technology company providing do it yourself resources for self-representing family law litigants, and Modern Law Practice, a plug and play operational model for law firms looking to scale. Modern Law was opened in 2010 in Arizona and was recently named one of the fastest growing firms in the country for the third consecutive year. Their model focuses on the use of technology, customer service, automation, and whole health.
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What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- How Billie started and grew “Modern Law”, Access Legal and Modern Law practice,
- How using business methods and technology can help you grow and scale your practice.
Contact Information:
https://mymodernlaw.com
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/MyModernLaw/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mymodernlaw?lang=en
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/billie-tarascio-62322bb/
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Former product development engineer Neil Thompson is the founder of Teach the Geek, an online platform for STEM professionals. The platform's first offering is the public speaking course, Teach the Geek to Speak. Neil turned his early failings in public speaking into a 6 step process to deliver any speech, and he is committed to sharing the process with fellow geeks.
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What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- What lawyers can learn from other service businesses,
- How Neil switched from STEM to entrepreneurship, and how he identified a need in the market when brainstorming for business ideas,
- How Neil tried various methods to market himself before deciding to hire professionals,
- Knowing when to switch gear and experiment with your business.
Contact Information:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/teachthegeek
Twitter: www.twitter.com/teachthegeek
Instagram: www.instagram.com/_teachthegeek_
YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCW-8BcMcqnJLAYOhJtwy5wQ
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/neilithompson
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As we enter the last quarter of the year, I decided it would be a good idea to reflect on goals I set at the beginning of the year to see how far I've come and to assess where I'm going with my law practice in the next 3 months. I decided to reach out and invite Nicole Abboud, former host of the Gen Why Lawyer Podcast and owner of Abboud Media, a video and podcast production and marketing company helping lawyers and law firms, to chat about both of our businesses and how we plan on growing them.
What we discuss in this episode:
- How to make the decision to change practice areas or career trajectories when you realize you’re not happy in your current position
- Should you experiment with your marketing or should you stick to one method to see what happens?
- Why the client is the real hero of your marketing efforts
- How can you figure out whom your ideal client is?
- How we set goals for the year and how we adjust them as we go
- Does writing down financial goals actually help?
- What is minimalistic marketing and how can we apply this concept into our practices?
- How to avoid giving into the madness that is social media and instead, focusing on one or 2 platforms and posting quality content on those platforms
- How do you measure success in your business?
- The importance of tracking potential clients and noticing trends
Contact Information:
Connect with Nicole on Instagram @nic_abboud
www.abboudmedia.com
Resources:
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Stephanie has been coaching law students and attorneys for the past decade – helping them navigate the profession, build their reputation, and develop their careers. Having been a prosecutor, judicial staff attorney, solo practitioner, magistrate, and law firm associate, Stephanie understands the dynamics at play in each environment. She has been successful in different settings and has been elected by her peers to serve the profession and the community at high levels.
The secret? Mastering The Other 85. Stephanie knows what it takes to develop and maintain key relationships, how to value people skills, and how to fit it all into an attorney’s busy practice and life. She has condensed all she has learned into The Other 85 and is excited to share it with you.
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What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- How to make building a network less awkward, and turn encounters into friends and colleagues,
- Managing your time efficiently,
- How to bring value to your network and newly built relationships.
Resources:
https://theother85.net/hire/ Make sure to use the Code GENWHY for 10% off
Contact Information:
www.theother85.net
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As a former teacher and corporate trainer, Cindy Nicholson works with entrepreneurs who have dreams of building their business beyond just trading dollars for hours. They’re ready to grow their business by offering online courses but have no idea where to start. Cindy helps walk them through the process so that they can create a course that they’re proud of and that their clients will love.
In short, Cindy helps amazing entrepreneurs turn their incredible content into effective and engaging learning material. So often, small business owners are experts in their field but struggle with how to translate their vast knowledge into an engaging, life transforming online course. They know they want to scale their business and reach a broader audience (and earn some passive income along the way) but need some help to make it happen. That’s become The Course Whisperer, Cindy Nicholson’s, calling.
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What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
How do people come up with their course ideas? Do most have an outline already? know the details of the course or does Cindy help them flush out their ideas?
Sometimes, it’s hard to break down material to teachable portions when you’re an expert in your field. Cindy shares advice for people to take a step back and think about the basics and what need to be taught.
Resources and Platforms Cindy recommends to people thinking about starting a course.
Resources:
http://coursewhisperer.co/genwhy
Contact Information:
http://coursewhisperer.co/
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Megan saves lawyers’ careers. She defends lawyers before the State Bar of California in disciplinary investigations and proceedings. She also looks for new ways to help lawyers face ethics challenges, including creating The Playbook: The California Bar Discipline System Practice Guide, a membership website for lawyers defending themselves on disciplinary charges; podcasting on Lawyers Gone Ethical; writing for online and print publications; and speaking to lawyers on ethics issues.
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What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- Ethical issues of content marketing, creating videos and blogging on topics, how to answer questions on platforms like Avvo and Justia or even your blog without violating ethical rules,
- Ethical challenges of implementing new technologies that have not been regulated by state bars yet,
- Why Megan started her podcast “Lawyers gone ethical” and some of the ethical rule changes she’d like to see in the upcoming years.
Resources:
http://zaviehlaw.com/
Megan Zavieh’s Podcast: Lawyers gone ethical
Contact Information:
https://twitter.com/zaviehlaw
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Award-winning immigration attorney Alexandra Lozano is author of Be the CEO of Your Law Firmand founder of the Association of Mother Immigration Attorneys (AMIGA), which helps solo women attorneys transform their practices into thriving businesses. In this episode, Ally and I chat about the mistakes she’s made as a solo practitioner and the steps she took to take her practice to 6 figures and now to a 7-figure practice.
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What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
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Starting a law practice, business development, practice management hacks, and best tools Ally has found,
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The transition from treating her business as a hobby to building a strong business after she made a few changes,
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Some of the main takeaways from Ally’s new book: Be the CEO of your Law firm.
Resources:
Be the CEO of Your Law Firm: Gain Control, Turn a Profit, and Reclaim Your Life.
http://www.amigalawyers.com
Contact Information:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/191122438092413/
https://www.instagram.com/allylozanoesq/
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Phil Singleton is a web designer, an SEO expert and an award-winning author. Phil co-wrote SEO for Growth: The Ultimate Guide for Marketers, Web Designers & Entrepreneurs. SEO for Growth is an Amazon bestseller and has been listed as a top marketing book by Mashable, MSNBC, Entrepreneur and Search Engine Journal, and was named by Forbes as the #1 SEO book on its list of “Essential SEO Books for Every Startup to Read”. He is also the author of a popular WordPress SEO plugin that has been downloaded over 200,000 times in the last year.
Phil’s latest startup venture, Podcast Bookers, is a service that helps marketers and executives get booked on established podcasts as way to develop authority and personal branding, improve SEO, and most importantly, generate new leads and sales.
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What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
Can you please briefly describe who you are and what you do
Basics of Search Engine Optimization (“SEO”) - on page and off page SEO,
Timeline for SEO,
Reviving old content,
Local SEO, online reputation and building citations,
How writing a book can help with your SEO and authority
Resources:
Kansas City Web Design
SEO for Growth
Podcast Bookers
Blog Writing Services
My WordPress Schema Plugin
Grade.us Review Funnel
Google Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines (GSQEG)
Contact Information:
Kansas City Web Design®
Kansas City SEO®
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Neha Sampat is CEO, founder, coach, and consultant at GenLead|BelongLab, where she focuses on building belonging and true inclusion. Through consulting, training, speaking, and writing, she helps organizations create peak-performance, inclusive teams by addressing hidden barriers to belonging, such as Imposter Syndrome and internalized bias, unconscious bias, generational diversity, and distrust in teams. Through professional development coaching, she helps her individual clients develop job situations and leadership styles that engage their true and best selves. Neha practiced law at both large and boutique law firms, and later joined law academia as dean of students and adjunct professor of law and leadership, so she is a Gen Xer fan of Gen Y.
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What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
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Recognizing impostor syndrome,
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Overcoming impostor syndrome - exercises that Neha uses with some clients,
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How to deal with difficult situations and unconscious bias and how to deal with stress,
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GenZers and how they’re disrupting work as we know it.
Resources:
learn more and register here for the online course, "Owning Your Value: 10 tactics to bust your self-doubt, step into your true value, and be your best self." Use the discount code: GENWHYLAWYER to receive 15% off.
sign up for Neha's newsletter to stay informed and receive free resources and tips on cultivating confidence and building belonging.
http://time.com/5066641/generation-z-disruption/
Nehas’s Story
www.genlead.co
Contact Information:
www.facebook.com/belonglab
Twitter: @BelongLab @nehamsampat
Instagram: @belonglab
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After a year of solo practice, I wanted to share the good, the bad and the ugly of starting a law firm.
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What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
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Starting a law firm,
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Having a vision for your firm,
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Marketing for your firm,
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Setting up systems and processes for your firm.
Resources:
www.upwork.com – website for freelancers from around the world
www.udemy.com– website for online courses
www.moz.com
www.linkedin.com
www.wordpress.org
www.semrush.com – Great free courses on search engine optimization
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1924192371133759/?ref=bookmarks
Directory listings (Google Places, Bing, Yelp) linked back to your website.
Lawyer directories (Avvo, Justia, Lawyers.com) linked back to your website.
Contact Information:
karima@genwhylawyer.com
twitter.com/thepatentlady
https://www.instagram.com/thepatentlawyer/
https://twitter.com/thepatentlady
https://Kgulick.com
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A lawyer and a therapist Will Meyerhofer has many accolades after this name: JD LCSW-R. He is a psychotherapist and former biglaw attorney with a private practice treating lawyers and others in TriBeCa, New York City (visit www.aquietroom.com for more information.) He is the author of four books, including “Way Worse than Being a Dentist: the Lawyer's Quest for Meaning,” and its sequel "Still Way Worse..." about life in biglaw, as well as a book introducing and elaborating upon the central concepts of psychotherapy, “Life is a Brief Opportunity for Joy.” A graduate of Harvard College, The NYU School of Law, and The Hunter College School of Social Work, Will writes regularly for Above The Law, and maintains a blog about life, the law and psychotherapy, at www.thepeoplestherapist.com .
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What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- Understanding burnout and best treatment for it,
- Understanding procrastination,
- Anxiety and depression in the legal profession,
- How therapy can help you regain control of your life.
Resources:
Articles on Burnout - https://thepeoplestherapist.com/2017/09/26/the-finish-line-problem/
Lawyer self-care - https://thepeoplestherapist.com/2015/12/16/something-upbeat-and-constructive/
Will’s NEW book, a sequel to Way Worse Than Being a Dentist, cleverly titled Still Way Worse Than Being a Dentist
Will’s first book, on the ideas underlying psychotherapy: Life is a Brief Opportunity for Joy
His second book, about the state of the legal profession: Way Worse Than Being a Dentist
His third book, a comic novel: Bad Therapist: A Romance
A recent podcast
..and, finally, a television interview
Contact Information:
www.thepeoplestherapist.com
www.aquietroom.com
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From professional musician to CEO of a 60 year old non-profit, Bob’s climbed the career ladder through a series of career pivots.Before becoming a CEO, he was a Navy Supply Corps Commander, technology consultant for PriceWaterhouseCoopers and IBM Business Services, a risk management consultant and the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for a major insurance company,
He’s successfully pivoted 12 times to obtain career success and is a career transition practitioner and expert. As a former “C” level executive, hiring manager, and on occasion job applicant, he knows what management’s looking for. He believes that finding a better, higher paying job requires more than just a great resume and LinkedIn profile. You need a complete toolkit, which also includes networking, interviewing, and negotiation skills to name a few.
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What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- Career changes,
- How to find what you enjoy,
- Skills that translate through career transitions.
Resources
Career Do-Over Self-Assessment Tool
Online Career Assessment Tools
Get Noticed: 8 Great LinkedIn Hacks
Free Video: “How to Write a Resume that Lands the Interview” + Bonus Training: Resume Keyword Optimization
Blogs Discussed on the Podcast
Do you need a career do-over?
Online Career Assessment Tools
Resume Keywords: Beating the Applicant Tracking System (ATS)
How to identify your transferable skills for a mid-life career transition
What is the Toughest Interview Question You Will Ever Be Asked?
Contact Information:
www.fixmycareernow.com
bob@robertbaird.us
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Travis founded Student Loan Planner after helping his wife figure out her six figure med school loans and realizing that all their friends needed help too. He's consulted on more than $250 million of student debt, which is more than any one person in the country. He loves helping clients realize that financial freedom and security is possible no matter how high their student loan balance. He lives in St. Louis, MO.
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What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- Managing your finances,
- How to take control of your finances even with high student loans,
- Your options for paying the loans back, and living a financially healthy life.
Resources:
https://www.studentloanplanner.com/refinance-student-loans/
https://www.studentloanplanner.com/hire-student-loan-help/
Contact Information:
https://www.studentloanplanner.com
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Lily Li is a privacy lawyer and the owner of Metaverse Law, a practice dedicated to helping businesses comply with privacy and cybersecurity laws across the United States and Europe. She is a graduate of Duke Law School, and holds the Certified Information Privacy Professionals' certificates for the United States and Europe from the International Association of Privacy Professionals.
Prior to founding Metaverse Law, Lily was a commercial and intellectual property litigator at Brown Wegner in Irvine, and an intellectual property consultant and director of marketing and business development at IP Checkups, a patent analytics and valuation firm in Berkeley. In her free time, she is a total geek and loves reading and watching anything science fiction.
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What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- General Data Protection Regulation,
- How to stay compliant if you deal with European clients.
- Your obligations as an attorney
Contact Information:
https://www.metaverselaw.com
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Dan X. Nguyen is an attorney in Orange County, California that assist businesses with general counsel, franchising, trademark, and immigration matters, and facilitates a monthly mastermind for attorneys. He is a business nerd and his wife and 2 kids loath about his soliloquies on business strategies. Fun fact, in 2016, he tried out for a professional basketball team. In this episode, we chat about the importance of quarterly goals and importance of having a community to keep you accountable and keep you on track.
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What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- Starting your practice,
- Business development,
- Practice management hacks,
- Best productivity tools,
- The importance of building a community to stay on track for your goals,
- 12 Week year,
- Write-ups: a weekly time to get things done! 1 hour a week can change a lot.
Resources:
Dan’s 12 week Write In: http://subscribepage.com/12weeks
zapier.com
zoom.us
Calendly.com
Uberconference.com
Contact Information:
Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn
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Somya Kaushik is a former litigator turned legal tech entrepreneur, having started the company EsqMe, Inc. (www.esqme.com), a legal document marketplace and legal service platform for lawyers, by lawyers. Kaushik is an expert in legal tech and has spoken across the country on entrepreneurship, legal technology and its rapid advancements in the practice of law, and most recently gender bias in the law and technology. In this episode, we chat about how you can save time with legal templates by attorneys for attorneys and how you can generate additional income by selling the templates you have worked so hard for on Esqme.com
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What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
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How Somya started a legal tech company,
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Saving time by buying legal templates and editing them to your liking,
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Selling your legal templates and making money.
Resources:
https://esqme.com
Contact Information:
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Tom is a legal bot advocate, lawyer, author and speaker. He is CEO and founder of LawDroid Ltd. (a bot development and consulting company for the legal industry). Tom is also co-founder of Vancouver Legal Hackers, advisor to ATJ Tech Fellow Program, member of ARAG Technology Innovation Committee, and Chair of Education for Group Legal Services Association. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Tom now lives in Vancouver, Canada with his wife and two daughters. In this episode, we discuss how chatbots can help you save time and convert leads into clients.
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What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
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What chatbots are, and how you can implement them in your practice,
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When chatbots would make sense for your practice,
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All the different options and flexibility of chatbots,
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How to use chatbots efficiently for your firm to save you time and convert leads into paying clients.
Resources:
LawDroid Receptionist Bot:
https://zaviehlaw.com/
https://eastbaylevinelaw.com/
https://www.spigglelaw.com/
LawDroid Legal Health Check:
https://www.palacelaw.com/patbot-intro-page/
Tom Martin’s articles on chatbots:
- "5 Often-Overlooked Steps to Building a Useful Chatbot for Your Law Practice," published in Lawyerist on April 17, 2018
- "2 Chatbot Platforms for Lawyers, No Coding Required," published in Lawyerist on November 21, 2017
- “The Promise and Peril Chatbots Pose for the Legal Industry,” published in Law Practice Today on June 24, 2017
- “How I Learned to Embrace the Law Robot Revolution,” published in Law Technology Today on October 4, 2016
- “How a Small Practice Attorney Used Automation to Build Profits and Reclaim Time” published by ARAG
- Many other articles available at: https://lawdroid.com/blog
Contact Information:
https://twitter.com/lawdroid
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Dina Eisenberg prepares lawyers to let go, delegate effectively and lead with assurance. Her passion is helping lawyers create the law practice that fits the life they desire, earns them more and practically runs itself. She likes to give people power through knowledge. She works with fellow attorneys to give them the power and tools to create a better law experience for them and their clients. (Happy lawyer, happy clients).
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What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
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Identify which tasks can be delegated first,
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Learn to let go,
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How giving others clear directions can set you up for success when delegating
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It’s okay not to do everything yourself and get some help!
Resources:
https://www.outsourceeasier.com/attract-your-ibc/ - This is a link to Dina’s Free webinar on attracting your best clients
www.rescuetime.com/
www.fiverr.com
www.upwork.com
www.toggl.com
www.dropvox.com
www.taskrabbit.com
Contact Information:
https://twitter.com/DinaEisenberg
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dinalyncheisenberg/
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Aastha started her own practice focusing on business law, franchise law, and estate planning. She is a strong advocate of good planning, in life and in business. Aastha often writes and speaks on the topic of cultural competency in the practice of law. In this episode, we discuss moving out of a virtual practice and into an actual office, hiring your first staff and dealing with impostor syndrome
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What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
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Starting your own practice,
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moving from a home office to an actual office and creating some work separation,
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Hiring your first staff,
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Dealing with impostor syndrome.
Contact Information:
https://madaanlaw.com/
https://twitter.com/MadaanLaw
https://www.facebook.com/madaanlaw
https://www.instagram.com/move.associates/
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Drew Amoroso is the founder of Move Associates, an innovative training company that empowers associates to achieve their performance goals, accelerate their growth and development, stay professionally fulfilled, and take control of their practice. Prior to Move, Drew was a senior associate at an international law firm and served on the firm's hiring committee and as the head of its summer associate program. Drew also was the owner of his own firm where he practiced fitness law--representing innovators in the fitness and health and wellness industries. He’s currently the President of the Barristers Club at the Bar Association of San Francisco and a visiting lecturer at UC Davis School of Law, Golden Gate University School of Law, and University of San Francisco School of Law.
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What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
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How to set goals and a development path,
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Essential tools for professional,
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How to stay professionally fulfilled.
Resources:
http://www.move-associates.com
Contact Information:
https://twitter.com/fitlawdrew
https://www.facebook.com/move.associates/
https://www.instagram.com/move.associates/
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As a practicing attorney himself, Chris understands how important a native mobile experience is becoming for clients interacting with legal websites. When he couldn’t find a white label native app for his firm, he built one himself. He launched Your Firm App, a practical development in legal technology. It may not be blockchain or AI, but it will help make life better for attorneys and clients.
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What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
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How to start a tech company,
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How to hire the right people for the job,
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Partnership and how to make partnerships work,
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What makes partnerships successful.
Resources:
https://yourfirmapp.com
http://abbyconnect.com/genwhy
Contact Information:
chris@yourfirmapp.com
https://twitter.com/attychrissmith
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Finally! After two decades, Lee Rosen figured out how to own a lucrative law firm without having to be working in your law firm 24/7/365. Once he realized he could be the owner, not the practitioner, Lee found a team to run the business, then sold it. Now, he travels full-time while teaching other lawyers how they can build their practices into sellable businesses.
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What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- How Lee built a lucrative firm
- How setting up systems for your firm can help you expand your business
- How to build a solid business and be able to work from anywhere
Resources:
The 10 rules that all successful law firms follow – I highly recommend getting these rules, while very simple, they will definitely get you to think about basic concepts to grow your business - https://roseninstitute.com/ri/get-rosens-rules/
Rosen Institute - http://roseninstitute.com/articles
Contact Information:
https://roseninstitute.com
https://twitter.com/leerosen
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Inspired by the surging startup communities in Portland, New York, and around the world, Jason started a law practice to serve those communities, then joined another firm to help them start a New York office. He admires the problem-solving and creativity required to introduce a product or service to the world. He is a tech lover and is always looking for ways to make every day work more efficient.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
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How Jason started his practice and later joined a law firm and found their New York office,
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How Jason automates a lot of his administrative tasks, and
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A step by step guide to how he uses Zapier, among other tech tools.
Resources:
https://workfrom.co/magazine/story/8-essential-tools-nomadic-lawyer
www.zapier.com
www.Slack.com
www.Trello.com
Contact Information:
Jason@jasongershenson.com
https://twitter.com/jasongershenson
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This episode is fun and packed with great lessons. From how to start and manage a successful mobile practice, to getting your affairs in order with estate planning tips, meet Catherine Hodder.
Catherine is the co-author of Law Office on a Laptop: How to Set Up Your Own Successful Mobile Law Practice and manages www.GoSoloForSuccess.com. She focuses on helping attorneys in their solo law practice with tips, support and resources for their firm.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- How Catherine and her partner set up their mobile practice and helped clients at their homes when needed,
- How she cornered the mommy market and created a law practice that will answer the needs of that market,
- Estate planning for the “sandwich generation”.
Resources:
http://www.gosoloforsuccess.com
Contact Information:
https://www.instagram.com/gosolo4success/
https://twitter.com/gosolo4success
https://www.facebook.com/gosoloforsuccess/
https://www.pinterest.com/gosoloforsuccess/pins/
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As always, if there is a topic you’d like us to cover or guest you would like to see on the show, you can write me at karima@genwhylawyer.com
The power of travel and vacations! I personally love travelling to new places and love exploring new countries and learning about new cultures. Today’s guest became an expert on travelling on a budget and even wrote an Amazon bestseller on the topic. Jen Ruiz is a solo travel blogger and lawyer who took 20 trips in 12 months while employed full-time. She has been featured by The Washington Post and ABC News for her budget travel secrets and is the author of "The Affordable Flight Guide," an Amazon bestseller across 4 categories."
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
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How Jen changed her career to fit her travelling,
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How Jen journaled her travels, travel resources and wrote a book on the topic,
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From travel blog to an amazon best-selling,
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Writing, self-publishing and marketing a book,
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Travel tips.
Resources:
The Affordable Flight guide by Jen Ruiz: https://amzn.to/2Hm3mZj (affiliate link)
https://www.bargainbooksy.com
https://maketraffichappen.com
Melyssa Griffin’s Podcast
Contact Information:
http://jenonajetplane.com
https://www.instagram.com/jenonajetplane/
https://twitter.com/jenonajetplane
https://www.facebook.com/jenonajetplane
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Libby Jamison is an attorney with the Department of Veterans Affairs based in Washington, D.C.; previously, she managed her own firm focused on business and family law and served as Of Counsel to a firm in Claremont, CA. She also currently serves as the president of the Military Spouse JD Network, a bar association serving over 1,200 military spouse attorneys and law students. Libby volunteers with the Junior League of Washington and Hire Heroes USA. In 2015, she was named as the AFI Military Spouse of the Year for Naval Station Newport and recognized with the Mary Reding Smith Excellence in Leadership Award. Libby is admitted to practice in California, Washington State, and before the Supreme Court of the United States.
The Military Spouse JD Network (MSJDN) supports military spouses in the legal profession by advocating for licensing accommodations for military spouse attorneys; educating the public about the challenges faced by career-minded military spouses and their families; encouraging the hiring of military spouses; and providing a network connecting military spouse attorneys with each other and their supporters.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
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Who Libby Jamison is and how she got involved with the MSJDN,
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What the MSDJN does,
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Challenges faced by military spouses in the legal profession,
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And how you can help support military spouses in the legal profession,
Resources:
https://www.msjdn.org
https://www.msjdn.org/about/jmf/justiceformilfamilies/
https://www.taps.org
https://www.army.mil/goldstar/
Contact Information:
https://twitter.com/milspousejd
https://www.facebook.com/MilitarySpouseJDNetwork
https://www.pinterest.com/msjdn/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/military-spouse-jd-network/
https://www.instagram.com/msjdn/
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Lenise Williams is a business attorney and consultant who takes a special interest in advising entrepreneurs, assisting them with growing their businesses (strong personal branding, strategies, strategic partnerships, franchising, merger and acquisitions), increasing their bottom line and legally protecting their businesses.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
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Who Lenise Williams is and how she manages a law practice, a consulting business, a new product business and being a single mother of 2 boys,
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Her most exciting accomplishments since she last spoke to Nicole Abboud on the show,
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Some of the most valuable lessons she learned in the past few years and advice she would give to her younger self,
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How she keeps the spark and passion for what she does,
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Made Leather - How the idea came about and the steps she took to start and grow a business,
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Advice for someone about to start working on their online presence and digital footprint.
Resources:
https://lenisewilliams.net
https://www.madeleatherco.com
http://www.passionplanner.com/dated-2018
Contact Information:
https://lenisewilliams.net
http://instagram.com/mompreneur_esq/
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Just like you, there is no shortage of the different roles that Tamsen takes on in any given day. She has seamlessly blended her roles as a mother, business executive, and lawyer to give her the unique perspective and platform to not simply talk about ideas and how to create them but also how to make sure that what you are working so hard to build is safely protected: personally, and professionally.
Most recently, she released her debut book, Easy As PB&J, with her husband Chris where they use their stories to help you learn how to share what you know and make money doing it.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
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Some of Tamsen’s most exciting accomplishments since she last spoke on the show,
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Recent legal trends,
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How to define and live your best life or vacationing life,
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Advice on how to start working on your online presence and hot to find your unique voice.
Resources:
www.tamsenhorton.com
Book | www.easyaspbj.com
Contact Information:
Where you can find me on social media:
bit.ly/tamsenhortonfacebook
bit.ly/tamsenhortontwitter
bit.ly/tamsenhortonperiscope
bit.ly/tamsenhortoninstagram
bit.ly/tamsenhortonlinkedin
bit.ly/tamsenhortonyoutube
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Mitch Jackson enjoys combining law, social media, and technology to disrupt, hack, and improve his clients' companies, causes, and professional relationships. He's an award-winning 2013 California "Litigation Lawyer of the Year" who has been profiled at Inc.com and named on Mashable as one of the top 50 influencers to follow on Snapchat. In addition to being on shows with Katie Couric and Anderson Cooper, he's also shared business and branding tips from the stage at Tony Robbin's Business Mastery Event before an audience of 2,000.
- Mike the Milkman’s 3 keys to success: take care of yourself, take care of your family and take care of your profession,
- Mitch’s most exciting accomplishments for the past 3 years,
- How Mitch keeps his passion and the spark in what he does every day,
- His Legal Minds group, how it got started, and his vision for the group,
- Advice for someone about to start working on their online presence and digital footprint, despite the fact that most channels might seem crowded and how you can differentiate yourself online and stay ahead of the curve.
Contact Information:
Mitch can be found on various social media platforms and his handle is @mitchjackson
http://twitter.com/mitchjackson
https://www.instagram.com/mitchjackson/
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Nicole Abboud started the Gen Why Lawyer Podcast 3 years ago. To celebrate the 3-year anniversary, I interviewed Nicole about how the podcast idea came about, how she started it and the main lessons she’s learned in the past few years. Nicole is a business owner, Millennial speaker, adjunct college professor, attorney, and podcaster. She loves studying businesses: why they exist, how they operate, what sort of impact they make, how they grow, how they die! She started a new podcast called Leaders Love Company where she interviews Leaders on these topics. Along with her podcast and speaking, she writes about building a sustainable business and making the leap into entrepreneurship for Forbes Bankable.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- What Nicole has been up to lately,
- Her greatest accomplishments/successes in the past 3 years,
- Lessons learned from the past few years and from starting a podcast,
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video and podcasting as a young lawyer - How can lawyers find their brand and unique voice and be able to share that via audio, video, writing etc,
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Time frame for trying social media platforms or various content delivery platforms,
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Is there a time frame for trying new things?
- Definition of success and how to come up with a personal answer.
Resources:
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff . . . and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life (Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Series) by Richard Carlson (Author)
http://amzn.to/2H3se6T (affiliate link)
Contact Information:
Websites: http://www.nicoleabboud.com/
https://www.abboudmedia.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/nic_abboud
Email: Nicole@abboudmedia.com
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Annette Stepanian is an attorney and business strategist who equips other creative professionals and small business owners with the legal and business knowledge needed to confidently start and grow their businesses. After practicing litigation at a national law firm in San Francisco for over five years, she took a leap of faith and started her own creative business. Today, through one-on-one services, contract templates, trainings and her Office Talk podcast, Annette strives to make the law practical, approachable, and dare we say it – even a little fun. Learn more at www.annettestepanian.com.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- How Annette went from Big Law to starting a jewelry business, then to starting her own practice
- How taking a break from the law has helped her find her ideal clients and tailor her legal services to that ideal community,
- How she created legal products such as a podcast, webinar and legal templates to answer some of the needs of her ideal clients.
Resources:
Annette’s podcast – The Office Talk
Contact Information:
Website: www.annettestepanian.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/annettestepanian/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/annettestepanianesq
Twitter: https://twitter.com/annetteesq
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/annetteesq/
Linked In: www.linkedin.com/in/annettestepanian
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Kelly Phillips Erb is a Senior Editor at Forbes where she writes about tax and tax policy; she also serves as editorial lead for Bankable by Forbes. She was previously a managing shareholder at The Erb Law Firm, P.C., where she focused on tax law for businesses and families. Kelly is also a mom to three children, so she can add "dinosaur expert," "cupcake baker" and "hockey mom" to her resume. In this episode, she shares her story about how spending time developing her craft, writing about tax law, finding her unique voice and making tax law accessible to everyone didn’t go unnoticed.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- How Taxgirl got started with her career and writing her blog,
- How she found her unique voice and unique writing style and how she managed to make tax law understandable and accessible to most people,
- How she thought her blawg went unnoticed for a while until she started winning ABA awards and then got an offer from Forbes,
- Her book "Home, Sweet Rental: Busting the Hype Of Homeownership” and how home ownership is declining with Millennials, and how home ownership might not make financial sense to everyone,
- How her family factors into the mix, and how she always knew that she wanted to be a mom and also wanted to work. How it was important for her to have the two co-exist.
Resources:
Home, Sweet Rental: Busting The Hype Of Homeownership Kindle Edition
by Kelly Phillips Erb (Author), J. Christopher Erb (Author)
http://amzn.to/2BEs32E
Contact Information:
Kelly can be found on various platforms and her handle is @taxgirl
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Andrea Evans is an intellectual property attorney who started the Kidgineer program, a creative and fun educational program that captures kids’ interest! Kidgnieer is designed to accelerate kids interest and growth in science, technology, mathematics and engineering or STEM. In this episode, she shares her story about how that program came about, how she got started with her TV appearances and how she grew her Intellectual Property practice.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
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How Andrea started the Kidgineer program, and how she turned her passion for spreading STEM education into an award-winning program,
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how she got her initial training at a government office and the thorough training that government offices offer their employees,
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Andrea's TV appearances, how she is part of a national TV show and how that opportunity arose,
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Best advice on how to be involved in your kids life in a fun and productive way.
Resources:
http://kidgineer.com
Contact Information:
https://evansiplaw.com
https://www.facebook.com/evansiplaw/
https://www.linkedin.com/evansiplaw
You can also find Andrea on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter under the handle @evansiplaw
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Sonia Lakhany is a trademark attorney and the owner of her own award-winning bicoastal trademark law practice with offices in Atlanta, Georgia and Orange County, California. In addition to her practice, Sonia has recently become well-known for her online courses teaching other attorneys content in the areas of practicing trademarks and marketing and branding their law practices.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
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How to build a strong reputation in your field,
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How Sonia started teaching other lawyers her craft and how she used her legal expertise to create courses and teach others trademark law. She also shares how she came up with her idea, the execution portion of it and how she spread the word about her courses.
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Marketing – How Sonia has been showcasing her expertise through writing for some of the biggest names such as Bloomberg, Entrepreneur Magazine, Glamour Magazine, Atlanta Business Chronicle, Business News Daily, USA Today and CBS
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Advice for attorneys trying to diversify their income and not be enslaved to the billable hours - or basically how to use the education and knowledge to make money in creative ways.
Resources:
https://www.helpareporter.com to get published with some of the big names
For Sonia’s Trademark and Marketing classes, you can reach her at sonia@lakhanylaw.com
Contact Information:
sonia@lakhanylaw.com
www.lakhanylaw.com
You can also find Sonia on Instagram under the handle @trademarklawyerlady
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Andrea Bird, a founding attorney at Bird Law Group, shares her story about how she became a leader in the cannabis law field, a new and ever changing area of the law, going from Big law to starting her own practice, how she managed to have a thriving practice in the span of a few months and her pro bono cases where, changed her client’s life, and set legal precedent ensuring that she helps others in the same situation. A lot of us go to law school wanting to help other and change the laws – Andrea managed to do that in her practice.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
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How Andrea got started in the field of Cannabis Law and how she managed to become a leader in the field in a rather short amount of time,
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Showcasing your expertise through CLE presentations and industry related events,
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Andrea’s pro bono case where she argued at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on behalf of Carey Avendano-Hernandez, a transgender woman from Mexico who was tortured by police and military officials, resulting in a published Ninth Circuit opinion granting relief under the Convention Against Torture.
Resources:
Public Law Center (if you’re in Southern California)
Contact Information:
abird@birdlg.com
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For this episode, I interviewed Zack Levine. We had a great conversation about how he became a video game lawyer, interesting facts about video game law and the clients he works with, and his advice on becoming an expert in a new area of the law. Zack is a partner with Wolk & Levine, LLP, a business and intellectual property law firm in Glendale, California. He is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School and Glendale College of Law, where he teaches a number of classes covering video game law, contract drafting, and corporate law; he is also a regular contributor to the LA Times and the Cyberspace Lawyer. Zack's practice is focused on representing content creators and technology companies.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
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What video game law involves,
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How Zack started practicing in video game law, who his ideal clients are and some of the most interesting issues he has encountered,
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Advice on becoming an expert on a new area of the law.
Contact Information:
You can reach Zack at his firm’s website or Facebook page at:
wolklevine.com , and
facebook.com/wolklevine
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Toya Gavin, Esq. is an attorney, legal consultant and founder of Legally Bold, an online coaching and consulting agency where Toya shows women how to make an impact and income with their law degree while creating a life they love. She challenges women in the law to peel back the legal label and reveal the person and professional they always wanted to be.
Before founding Legally Bold, Toya worked as a prosecutor and owned a solo practice focused on small business law. Toya loves her friends and family. She also is obsessed with YouTube videos on natural hair, cooking and eating, any show created by Shonda Rhimes, and working out (because she cooks and eats). Find out more by visiting www.legally-bold.com and connect with Toya on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
She joins us in this episode to share her journey from working as a prosecutor, to having her solo practice and then starting a legal consulting company. She shares her tips on learning new skills and a new practice area, and how she decided to switch gears after dealing with anxiety and depression
What you’ll learn in this Episode:
- The 5 steps to learning new skills and how to come up to speed on a new practice area
- How writing can help you figure out what you really to do in life.
- Learning when to take a break to take care of yourself and when to switch gears to best help people and be the best lawyer you can be.
Resources:
- Marie Forleo’s B School program
- The first 20 hours – how to learn Anything.. Fast - by Josh Kaufman (affiliate link)
Contact Information:
Toya Gavin Law on social media and Toya’s website: www.legally-bold.com
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Ed Monsour is a tax attorney and a professor. He joins us in this episode to share his journey from working at the Ohio lottery office with deferred prize winners to starting his own practice, and how teaching allowed him the travel the world. He also shares tips on how to build an efficient practice and attract your best clients.
What you’ll learn in this episode:
- How using the Pareto Principle (80-20 rule), focusing and attracting your best clients can save you time and headaches and help you grow your practice.
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Paradox intention: How facing and following your fears allows you to grow and live life to the fullest.
- a technique pioneered by Victor Frankl who wrote a book called Man's Search for Meaning.
- For anyone unfamiliar with him or his work, Viktor Frankl was a psychologist who was a Holocaust survivor. His book is an account of his experiences while imprisoned, and the discoveries he made about human nature when we are put through such extreme and dire conditions.
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Using an anchor, be it a picture of your family on your desk or whatever is important to you, to remind yourself of your whys and to stick to your important goals.
- How there will always be changes in tax law, giving the practice area some security.
Resources:
- Man’s search for meaning by Viktor Frankl (affiliate link)
- On the shortness of life: Life is long if you know how to use it by Seneca (affiliate link)
Contact Information:
elm2669@gmail.com
Thank you to our show Sponsor CourtCall
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Well, the time has come. In this episode, I share my farewell message with you, dear listeners. It is the last episode with me as your host. Starting January 2018, Karima Gulick takes over as the new host of The Gen Why Lawyer. Get excited!
It has been a wonderful ride! Thank you for being a part of it. I appreciate each and every time you pressed play on this show.
I'm looking forward to all of the wonderful conversations Karima will share with you on this podcast. Stay tuned and keep in touch.
Email me: nicole@genwhylawyer.com
Instagram: @nic_abboud
Kelly Street, the marketing director with Attorneysync, a digital legal marketing agency, joins us today to share her top tips on how lawyers can go about incorporating content creation into their marketing efforts.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- What the 6 rules are:
- Engaging content leads to better search results
- Be true to your own style
- Keep your audience in mind
- Localize your content
- Content provides context
- Always ask, “why?”
- How to be true to your own style and personality and allow that to show through your content
- Keep your audience in mind when creating content
- Where to find topic ideas
- Why you should localize your content
- Always ask yourself “why” first before you embark on any content creation efforts
- Why video marketing is something lawyers should give some serious consideration to
- How to prepare your script and yourself to record a legal video
- When you have your content created, how can you best promote it?
- Should you create content specifically for social media?
Resources:
Grab Kelly’s free resource - www.attorneysync.com/geny
Soapbox by Wistia
Biteable
Teleprompter iOs app
Canva
Fiverr
Upwork
Contact Information:
kelly@attorneysync.com
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Karima Gulick is an intellectual property attorney and registered patent attorney. She joins us to share her journey that took her from working at a large aerospace company to law school and then to eventually opening her own patent and aviation law firm. Karima shares how she found her space in the legal profession.
In this episode, Karima and I break some exciting news that will affect the future of this show. You’ll want to hear it, especially if you’re someone who turns to this podcast for inspiration and insight on how to grow your law practice and build a fulfilling career as a lawyer.
Resources
Pomodoro technique
Contact Information:
Instagram: @patentlawyerlady
Website: www.kgulick.com
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Bailey Standish loved her job at her law school until sexual advances from her supervisor made working there unbearable. She joins us and shares her experience with sexual harassment in her legal position. She shares advice on how young lawyers, who find themselves in similar positions, can approach the situation.
We discuss the importance of having a supportive mentor and a strong tribe of friends who will guide you. Bailey talks about some of the signs to look for that help tip you off to an inappropriate situation, and she also shares a few resources that are available to victims of sexual harassment.
Contact
baileystandish@gmail.com
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Nicholas Hite from Hite Law Group is building a thriving family and domestic law practice in New Orleans, with a special focus on members of the LGBTQ community. In this episode, Nick joins us to share his insight on choosing the right niche and growing a law practice to profitability within 6 months.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- How Hurricane Katrina changed the city of New Orleans and how that affected Nick’s practice
- How he chose his niche within the family law field based on his passions and desires
- Why he offers LGBTQ cultural competency trainings and how it helps him grow his brand
- How narrow is too narrow when it comes to choosing a niche?
- Why Nick decided to set up his attorney fees based on a sliding scale
- What Nick did when he took an entire year off after leaving his law firm position
- How he grew his firm to profitability within the first 6 months of launching
- Why it’s important to be involved in the community you want to serve
Resources
PFLAG – New Orleans chapter
NOAGE
BreakOUT
Contact Information
www.hitelawgroup.com
(504)2520678
nicholas@hitelawgroup.com
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Leaving the law to launch a nonprofit is not easy. That’s precisely what today’s guest, Mariam Morshedi, did when she saw there was a need for simplified law. Mariam left her legal position at AARP to launch Subscript Law. Subscript is a committed to enhancing the legal and political decision-making of Americans. She accomplishes this by breaking down legal concepts, Supreme Court cases, and government functions into visual explainers.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- How she channeled her interest in philosophy and anthropology into her legal nonprofit
- What inspired her to launch her nonprofit
- Why she believes that the public has a right to not only know the law but understand it as well
- How she decided that visual graphics were the best way to present information
- Her steps in assembling her board and team at the nonprofit
- How to find the right marketing channels for your business when marketing isn’t your strength
- Why she chose a non-profit as opposed to other types of organization
- Why it’s important to prepare yourself financially if you’re going to launch a non-profit
Contact Information:
mmorshedi@subscriptlaw.com
Subscript Law
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I'm sharing a preview of my new show, Leaders Love Company, which launches this week. I explain the basis for the new podcast show, what I'm hoping to accomplish, and why you should tune in.
I also share a few snippets from the first couple of episodes of the new show.
I hope you like it!
I would truly appreciate it if you SUBSCRIBED to the new show.
Stay connected with me on my favorite platform, Instagram.
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The fearless duo from Selogie and Brett, Amanda and Vickie, join us to share their insight on how they launched their law practice focused on helping children living with disabilities. They also share how they’ve channeled their passion for helping special needs children into their non-profit and their newly launched podcast.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- What it takes to be a special education law attorney
- How they figured out it was time for them to open their own practice together
- Is going solo for everyone?
- How can you make a law firm partnership last and how to make sure you’re protected in case the love doesn’t last
- How someone in a niche practice area can generate business
- What to use to market your practice when you don’t have a big budget…or a budget at all!
- Why they started their non-profit and a podcast to support the non-profit’s mission
Resources Mentioned:
Connection Café
Contact Information:
www.selogiebrett.com
Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter
Inclusive Education Project
Facebook, Instagram
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Joining us today is young attorney and digital marketer, Sam Mollaei. In just over 2 years, Sam managed to grow his virtual law practice from zero to over 600 clients. He shares his insights on how to build a sales funnel that continuously attract clients to your law practice.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- How Sam’s content marketing efforts began to pay off about 12 months after he began writing blogs
- What type of good quality content you should be creating to attract legal clients
- The importance of links and link-building on your website for attracting visitors
- 3 essential elements to figuring out the right niche
- High urgency
- High demand
- Premium pricing
- 2 main ways to begin attracting clients online
- Why it’s important to build a system and sales funnel in order to get clients
- Sam shares his 4-part sales funnel
- How (and when) to properly ask for a Google review from your clients
- Sam’s 3 most valuable lessons learned
- Which practice areas lend themselves the best to sales funnels
Resources:
Google Trends
Google Keyword Planner
Google Adwords
MixMax – email plugin that connects with Gmail to set up automatic follow up sequence
Contact Information:
Email: sam@legalfunnel.com
www.mollaeilaw.com
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The mind is powerful. There’s no doubt about that. But if you’re like me, then you haven’t learned how to tap into its power to unlock your full potential. Thankfully, Leila Nosrat is joining us today to teach us to do just that. She has perfected a 4-step process to help us rewire our brains in order to achieve our goals.
Leila is an attorney, mindset coach, and an academic success strategist. She is the host and producer of the YouTube series, Law with Leila, and is the founder of Bar Prep Mindset, a bar prep company helping law students get in the right mindset for the bar exams.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- Why managing stress, both in law school and as a lawyer, forms the basis for success
- Can we rewire and retrain our brains to accelerate our learning and do more?
- How you can train your brain to wake up with more motivation and use certain strategies to perform at your optimal level
- Leila’s 4-step “IPSA” system to help you set and achieve your goals
- The importance of affirmations, even in the absence of immediate results
- Why Leila believes YouTube is a worthy platform to spend time on
Resources Mentioned:
Carol Dweck
Legal Seagull YouTube channel
Contact Information:
Law with Leila YouTube channel
Instagram: law_with_leila
Facebook: Leila Nosrat
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Wayne Pollock joins us in this episode to share his insight on how lawyers, can use the press and various media outlets to help tell the stories of their clients and help shape the opinions of those who might have some say in the outcome of our clients’ cases, i.e. a jury or other decision makers.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- What is the Court of Public Opinion and why should young lawyers know about it
- Who are the members of the Court of Public Opinion
- How a lawyer can engage members of the Court of Public Opinion and how that’s beneficial from a legal service perspective, client perspective, and marketing perspective
- The ethical concerns when it comes to engaging the media and press
- Do transactional attorneys need to worry about how their clients’ cases appear in the press too?
- Why it’s important to think critically about your brand and how you position yourself when it comes to your own media pursuits
- Part of being a competent attorney might include telling their story to the public
- What are the first steps to engaging the media for any of our cases
- How Wayne is marketing his niche law firm
Contact Info
www.copostrategies.com
Email: waynepollock@copostrategies.com
LinkedIn: Wayne Pollock
Twitter: @waynepollock_cs
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I love leadership! That’s why I’m glad to have our guest, Mark Beese, on the show today. Mark is a leadership expert and he’s here to chat about how Millennial lawyers can step up and become the leaders they are meant to be.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- How lawyers can learn to become better leaders
- The impact of leadership on business development and sustainability of firms
- Why Mark believes Millennials will save the legal profession
- Why it’s important to understand negative and positive stereotypes in order to start building your leadership skills
- What makes Millennial employees loyal
- How to ask for and give feedback the right way
- How to construct highly effective teams even as a young lawyer
- Why we can do a lot better in teams than as individuals
- Does teamwork make sense in a fiercely competitive legal profession?
- What it’ll take for law firms to build better workplace culture
Resources:
Center for Creative Leadership
Jennifer Deal, "What Millennials Want From Work"
Contact Information:
mark@leadershipforlawyers.com
www.leadershipforlawyers.com
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Between trying to remain calm before presenting at the Clio Cloud Conference and trying to enjoy the conference as an attendee, I managed to snag 4 short interviews with some of the attendees. The question I asked them? What is your best business development tip for getting your first client (or any client!)?
I was grateful that I recorded my quick chat with the following individuals who contributed their insight on this question:
Rehan Hasan, corporate attorney and business advisor
Julia Shapiro, Founder and CEO of Hire an Esquire
Adam Callahan, One400
Paul Rummel, CTO of Vijilent
Prior Episodes mentioned in this Episode:
Julia Shapiro - Episode 62
Creativity - Episode 80
Thank you to our show sponsor - MM.LaFleur
Is happiness an inside job? How can we, as lawyers, take responsibility for the choices we make that ultimately impact our level of happiness? Joining us this week is Okeoma Moronu, a young attorney and host of The Happy Lawyer Project Podcast where she explores this concept of happiness.
What You’ll Learn
- How she transitioned from BigLaw to in-house counsel
- How she manages the pressures of being part of a small in-house legal team
- Why she launched The Happy Lawyer Project Podcast
- Why is it that lawyers are unhappy?
- How can young lawyers figure out what it is they want and what they enjoy
- How diversity in the profession all starts with being happy and feeling like we belong
- What role her two children play in her decision making
- How she was able to make it known that her family is a priority while interviewing for her position
- Where her interest in personal finance stems from
Resources:
The Happy Lawyer Project Podcast
Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook: @thehappylawyerproject
If you’re wondering how to make the best use of your connections, then my guest today, Lou Shapiro, will certainly shed some light on how to go about doing that. Lou is a state and federal criminal law attorney, and he is a master at making friends online and offline and nurturing those relationships into referrals and opportunities.
What You’ll Learn:
- What experience is needed in order to eventually open your own practice as a criminal defense attorney
- Why he considers his firm to be a “concierge law firm”
- Where he gets his best referrals from other lawyers
- What exactly he posts on Facebook to invite conversations and generate attention
- How his involvement in his volunteer work at his temple led to a spot as a legal consultant on a tv legal comedy
- How he managed to secure Amanda Knox as a speaker for his local bar association
- The right way to stay in contact with people that you meet
- Why he’s waiting for the case that “defines” him
- Why you don’t need to experience every area of law in order to find out what you truly love
Thank you to our sponsor, MM.LaFleur – a women’s workwear brand that provides a complete wardrobe and personal-style service for the professional woman who has #BetterThingsToDo than shop.
Contact info:
Email: lousijshapiro@gmail.com
With internet creators becoming more and more popular in today’s YouTube-crazed world, wanting to become a lawyer who serves the needs of this group of people is a viable career path. That’s why I reached out to my friend Franklin Graves, General Counsel for Naxos Music Group. Franklin is immersed in the world of internet creators and YouTubers and is a content creator himself. He creates content to help educate creators of the legal side of digital content.
What We Discuss:
- How he networked the smart way and made the most of his connections to land his first job
- Why it’s important to get involved in a bar association’s project instead of merely networking
- How a trip to an ABA conference started him off on his branding journey
- How an article he wrote for the ABA eventually led to an opportunity to speak on a panel at the massive video conference, VidCon
- What drew him to wanting to create content on YouTube and for YouTubers
- The importance of immersing yourself in the industry you wish to represent
- Should lawyers create videos to market their law firms?
- How to figure out what type of videos you should create for your firm
Resources:
The Law School Strategy
Frankly Legal YouTube channel
Naxos Music Group
Contact Information:
www.franklingraves.com
@franklingraves – Twitter, Instagram, Facebook
franklingraves@gmail.com
Wela Quan is a New York corporate lawyer-turned-legal cartoonist and writer.
What we cover:
- How she made the decision to leave her corporate job after 2 years
- How she tapped into her childhood passions to begin writing and drawing
- Why she wants to eliminate legalese and legal jargon
- Wela explains her writing and drawing process
- Why doesn’t consider herself to be an “artist”
- Why she’s not in a hurry to buy a house and instead, wants to travel right now
- Why she rejected a job offer from Hooters in Singapore
Resources Mentioned:
New York Bar Picture Book
Quimbee.com
Contact Info:
www.nybarpicturebook.com
Email: wela@nybarpicturebook.com
This month was all about outreach. Outreach came in many different forms. Along with the usual in-person networking events, I decided to try out a new service called BombBomb. BombBomb is an video emailing service provider. In this month’s bonus episode, I chat about my experience with sending video emails to warm leads and what happened […]
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I recorded this interview with Andrea Kramer live at the Colorado Women’s Bar Association Annual Convention in Vail. I was honored to have been asked to speak at the convention so I thought it would be fun to include a short live interview as part of the presentation. In this episode, I spoke with Andrea […]
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Lawyer, Mom, Coach, and Podcaster, Janine Esbrand, joins us today and shares her thoughts on how lawyers can go about planning for a family while working at a firm. What does that conversation with the employer look like? When should it happen? Janine also shares her insight on how lawyers who feel “stuck” in their […]
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The path to success for lawyers is harder than ever. Young lawyers face numerous challenges that range from developing a specialty to maintaining and bringing in clients. The goal, of course, is to meet these challenges with a sense of excitement. That’s why I’m excited to have our guest, Lauren Rikleen, joining us today to […]
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On this episode, I speak with Brain Cuban. Brian is an author, keynote speaker, and former practicing attorney. His latest book is called The Addicted Lawyer: Tales of the Bar, Booze, Blow and Redemption and in this episode, he’s joining us to share his powerful story. His shares his remarkable journey from drug and alcohol […]
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In today’s episode, I share some sound bites from four marketing experts I spoke with at the Legal Marketing Association annual conference a month ago. I asked four marketing companies to share their top tips and advice for young lawyers when it comes to marketing and business development. This episode is dedicated to their responses. […]
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