https://vimeo.com/1046795933 [TL/DR: Click here to take the PROmance Scorecard. Ready to join us in the Path to PROmance? Click here to join.] If you’re a lawyer in a solo practice or small firm, and you’re feeling burned out, dreading calls with your clients, having to collect on...
Read MoreDecember 2024 was NOT ideal for me, to put it mildly. There was terrible loss, serious injury, and tough conversation (incoming and outgoing), along with a lot of complex logistics to figure out. But December 2024 also showered me with love, and taught me a LOT....
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Whitney Harper and I have been building ADVOS legal pllc for over 10 years!! (Early November was the 10 year anniversary in fact!). After we figured out the hardest parts, our lawyer friends started to ask us how we did it -📏 How we built...
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In 2010, I was racing through the airport, mind going as fast as my feet. With work demands, two middle schoolers, and a toddler at home, I felt pulled in a million directions—again. The book on the shelf - The Way We're Working Isn't Working...
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If I ask you how much you weigh, you might "know" that answer based on the scale in your bathroom at home. But if you weigh yourself at home, and then later in the day visit your doctor, the doctor's number will inevitably be different....
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Recently, we crossed the 6-month mark for the initial members of the ADVOS Accelerator (we call them the Founders Club), who have now experienced 2 Quarterly Strategic Planning sessions, 2 Quarterly Themed Workshops, and 6 monthly small group ("pod") Roundtable sessions. Our Accelerator members have...
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You break into a cold sweat. Your mouth goes dry. Your cheeks flush bright red. You'd give your right arm for any sort of distraction, anything to let you off the hook. Rewind 30 seconds - what just happened? The client sitting in front of you just...
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Ever heard the challenge to "be a thermostat, not a thermometer"? I love that one from Dr. King, and the empowerment and agency that come with it. It challenges us to set - and maintain - the temperature, not just report on or be in...
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I remember the first time I learned that lawyers bill in six-minute increments for things like reading and responding to email, faxing a document (the millennial in me is appalled!), and leaving a voicemail. I'd never before thought about how long it takes me to...
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When we talk about the magic of breaking up with the billable hour, one of the first objections we get from other lawyers goes something like this: “I tried flat fees, and I lost big time – I’d have made more billing by the hour.” Those lawyers...
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