Stop Growing a Practice You Secretly Want to Escape with Susan E. Guthrie on The Practice Playbook Podcast #475
Growth is not always the next right move. Sometimes more clients or more visibility are not what you are actually looking for. In fact, perhaps you'd actually want less of them.
When a practice feels off, the instinct is often to reach for more marketing, more referrals, or more revenue. But gro...
Choose the Judge. Know the Cost. Skip the Courtroom. with Amanda Mason of SOLAGREE on Divorce & Beyond #433
What would you say if I told you there is a way to choose the judge for your divorce, and skip the courtroom, entirely? The answer might surprise you. It's arbitration. In almost six years of Divorce and Beyond, arbitration has never been part of the conversation, until now.
Susan Guthrie welco...
Gray Divorce (after 50) & Adult Children: The Fallout for the Family, with Oprah and Leading Experts
Oprah is joined by a live audience in New York City for a candid conversation about the soaring rates of divorce for people over the age of 50, what experts are calling "gray divorce.” Even though the overall divorce rate is on the decline, the divorce rate for people over 50 has doubled and more...
Who's Steering Your Divorce? A Calmer Way Through, with Paula Lawhon on Divorce & Beyond #434
Walking into a courtroom for a divorce rarely ends in justice. The most likely outcome is a continuance. People take the day off from work, pay their attorney a good sum of money, and watch the judge kick the can down the road, walking out with nothing resolved. Now picture the opposite: one skil...
Great Mediator. Struggling Practice? Here’s What You’re Missing with Natalie Armstrong-Motin on the Practice Playbook Podcast #476
You can be an excellent professional, mediator, or lawyer and still struggle to build a successful practice. It may be one of the most frustrating truths about these professions, because knowing how to carry out your craft and knowing how to build a business around it are two entirely different s...
(197.5) AI-Driven Collapse of the Billable Hour, Part 1
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Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode:
* AI compresses the time for legal work but the billable hour penalizes that efficiency, meaning lawyers who adopt AI tools earn less for delivering the same or better...
What If Divorce Is the BEST Thing That Ever Happens to You? with Sharon DeFala on Divorce & Beyond #435
What if your divorce turned out to be one of the best things that ever happened to you? If you are in the middle of one right now, that probably sounds completely ridiculous, maybe even a little offensive. But after more than 35 years of helping people navigate divorce, Susan Guthrie has heard th...
When Clients Ask ChatGPT Who to Hire, Will It Recommend YOU? With Erica Glessing on the Practice Playbook Podcast #477
When someone asks AI to recommend a professional with your expertise, does your name come up? More and more, attorneys looking for a mediator for a complex commercial dispute, business owners searching for an arbitrator, and potential clients trying to find the right lawyer are turning to ChatGPT...
(198.5) AI-Driven Collapse of the Billable Hour, Part 2
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Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode:
* AI is shrinking BigLaw’s workforce needs as firms that once needed a thousand lawyers can operate with far fewer, pushing displaced attorneys to start their own AI-n...
Episode 186: Building a Law Practice by Design, Not by Default with Susan Guthrie
What if you could start your law practice all over again? Would you build it the same way?
Many lawyers build successful practices without ever consciously deciding what they want those practices to look like. They inherit systems from previous employers, follow traditional approaches to billing...
