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An unexpected Thanksgiving day wish:

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p.s. If you think your law firm is all about making money, or all about serving your clients then you are missing a big opportunity to enjoy more of both; plus be an even happier lawyer.

Financial Control 4 Lawyers

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Unfortunately too-few law schools and too-few CLE programs seek to equip us as law students and later as practicing lawyers, with the business management skills needed to manage the finances of our own law firms. Certainly not to attend to this critical law firm management task objectively. So instead of feeling the same sense of self-confidence and control we enjoy when dealing with our clients’ legal matters, when it comes to the financial management of our own law firms, too-many otherwise smart & sophisticated lawyers end-up making important law practice management decisions based on incomplete information and fear.

Why in the world would a multi-million dollar company ever want to hire a solo?

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This week for our monthly Gold Call I interviewed the president of a $3mm company that manages over $30mm of its clients' money. The question I posed to him was "Why in the world would a muti-million dollar company ever want to hire a solo lawyer?"

What Seth Godin Thinks About The Small Law Firm Management & Marketing Coaching Program

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p.s. If you DON'T agree this video is great, I'd still encourage you to take advantage of some of the free resources sprinkled throughout my various websites. But there's a good chance you're just going to think my programs are just plain "broken".

To: Brian Sajdak

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given your past failure at running a law firm, why should anyone hire you to advise them how to do it?

Still figuring this out...

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Ok, so you know how you see celebrities out there acting all…

An easy & free law firm marketing "strategy"

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1. Be quick with your compliments & slow with your criticism.2.…

Please excuse this “soap box moment” :-)

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Please excuse this “soap box moment” :-) The essence of an effective law firm marketing strategy is as follows. Everything else (websites, social media, etc. are merely the tactics used to deploy this 1,000 year old law firm marketing strategy:

My roof & your law practice

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So what does my roof have to do with your law practice? Alot actually. Let me explain...

The connection between our patron saint & your iolta trust account

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Note: This is taken from a discussion over at www.LawyerControl.com. Suggest you check it out if what you read below sparks your interest. The connection between our Patron Saint and our IOLTA account is that Moore was known to be so committed to his aspirations that he would occasionally self-flagellant. That is, in an effort to demonstrate his commitment he would physically harm himself.