Back To Law (Practice) School: The Essential Skills You Didn't Learn In Law School

There’s really nothing like law school for teaching attorneys how to practice law. 

But once you get out into the world — especially if you manage your own law firm — you’ll find those lessons lacking. 

That’s all right, because law school is not supposed to be business school. 

So let’s call this business school for lawyers — in podcast form!

 Joyce Brafford of ProfitSolv is back again on the Non-Eventcast — as co-host of this set of special episodes — to talk about all the management tactics you missed out on in law school.

Episode Highlights

In this episode, we start with a return to “Cryptid Corner,” with two brand-new cryptids for your listening pleasure!

After that, we get down to business . . . school.

We start the conversation by addressing lawyers’ issues with money (10:41) and then crack open a three-pack of financial strategies for attorneys, focusing on why and how it’s important to build a rate sheet (12:00); how to build better engagement agreements (14:30); and how to leverage passive timekeeping, in order to capture more time, bill more to clients and generate more revenue (19:52).

Next, your instructors focus on technology management. First, we cover the major software programs that attorneys should consider implementing (27:40); and, of course, how to effectively leverage the tools that you do choose (31:43).

The third period begins with marketing strategy classes addressing how law firms can build truly comprehensive marketing plans (37:11), before covering how important it is to utilize customer relationship software (CRMs) to manage those plans (40:36).

This is the ninth episode of the series, hosted in conjunction with our partner, ProfitSolv.  

This episode is sponsored by TimeSolv.