Development
What’s Your Legacy?
When Marcus Lemonis (star of the TV show, “The Profit”) began making serious $, he bought his mother a luxury car and mini-mansion. At first, Marcus’s mother held back her judgment, but after a while blurted out, “I didn’t raise you for this.” Marcus’s mother forced him to sell the car and house. Marcus’s mother more »
HOW TO AUTOMATE THE GROWTH OF YOUR LAW FIRM
The question is simple enough. A lawyer asks a question on a group chat, “What I should do with prospects who don’t have a case?” The response is near unanimous with the group agreeing that the lead is worthless and the lawyer shouldn’t waste any time following up. HUGE MISTAKE! But let’s face the truth: more »
How to Move Beyond Mediocrity
You return from a world-class seminar full of energy and excitement. You can’t wait to get started with your grandiose plans for world domination…or at least making a few changes to your law practice. But when you get back to the office, emergencies start popping up and before you know it, you’re back to the more »
Our Best Legal Forms
Form #1 Your Right to a Jury Trial After depositions are completed, we will request a trial date and at that time, you have the right to select a trial by jury or a non-jury trial (also known as a “bench trial”). It is your constitutional right to a jury trial, and we want more »
How to Start a Law Firm from Scratch
A young lawyer asks for my #1 piece of advice for starting a law firm, but cautions that he has few clients, relationships with lawyers or $. The lawyer believes that no one would refer a case to him since he’s a novice, has no big settlements or verdicts, and no trial experience. In essence, more »
Your Litmus Test for Hiring
Job interviews are meaningless. At the interview, the secretarial candidate beams with smiles and optimism, wears her Sunday’s finest and couldn’t be nicer. Everyone leaves the interview with smiles and after getting rave reviews from her former employers, you have no doubt that you discovered your next super-star secretary. But within just a few days more »
Taking Control of the Courtroom Before the Trial Begins
Forming a bond with the prospective jurors is the #1 goal for jury selection. Easier said than done. Prospective jurors enter a cold, sterile environment (a/k/a, courtroom) with nothing on the walls other than photos of dead judges. Not exactly the ideal environment for getting the prospective jurors to open up about their deepest secrets. more »
Why You Shouldn’t Write a Book
When it comes to writing a book, there are a lot of myths. Some will tell you to go for a walk in the woods, dictate while you walk, and in just a couple of hours, you’ll have the dictated enough content for a book. Self-publishing companies pitch the concept of “Talk a Book”, which more »
Your Checklist for Medical Records
Almost as an afterthought, medical records are received by your office and they get filed. You give little thought to the medical records until the day before the defendants’ deposition when you realize—for the first time—that you received an incomplete set of records. By then it’s too late—you don’t have enough time to get the more »
Your 4-Step System for Getting Medical Records
Without a system for getting medical records, your cases will sit in limbo. The hospitals and doctors can take months responding to your requests and even when they do, you rarely will get the medical records that you requested. Your clients will wonder what the hell is going on. Here’s our 4-step system for getting more »
