The importance of your mindset may not be anything new, but it means everything for your personal and professional success. How many times have you heard,” Mindset is everything?” Quite a few, right? But does it seem as though you’re hearing about the importance of mindset a lot more lately? There’s a good reason for …
Are you a hard-working, independent-thinking, learning-loving lawyer determined to find a better way to practice law? Then you just may be an Entrepreneurial Lawyer, which means the New Law Business Model could be speaking your language.
Who can turn that, “My law practice isn’t working” frown upside down? The New Law Business Model coaches can!
The key to creating a law practice and life you love is to stop thinking like a lawyer and start thinking like a business owner instead. If you’re anything like most lawyers, your days probably look like this… You’re sitting at your desk, trying not to spill your coffee on the growing stack of files …
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Meaning in the Middle of Nowhere In the summer of 2019, Liz Smith joined New Law Business Model and began building her new practice. But much like the city she hails from in Alaska, arriving at this important place wasn’t an easy journey. And taking on this new chapter of her life took her off …
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Utilizing Your Time to Create a Better Practice and Life Work, Work, Work Busyness is a commonly accepted hazard of the modern-day lawyer. Law school both prepares and subtly reinforces the narrative that enough busyness eventually translates to productivity, success, and wealth. And law students regularly buy into that narrative, willingly sacrificing their current relationships, …
A Stressed Out Family Law Practitioner Becomes a Family Man Practicing Law From the time Levi Alexander entered Law School at Michigan State University, he knew he wanted to work with families. So much so, that he chose the school because of its Chance at Childhood Clinic, where law students would be paired with a …
Life as a lawyer often comes with stress, long hours, missing time with family, and chasing billable hours and invoices. Additionally, this traditional model of practicing law can leave you feeling as if you have to choose between building your bank account and building a law practice that brings you true fulfillment. Finding the balance …
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3 NLBM Tips For Increasing Revenue On A Monthly Basis Law school didn’t teach you how to run your own business, especially the essentials like how to structure your time and your legal fees so you can earn a great living and deliver a fulfilling service without having to sacrifice time with your family. Here …
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Striking Out On Her Own When Erica Endyke started her own practice back in 2018, she’d be the first to tell you that despite her training and hopeful aspirations, it wasn’t exactly smooth sailing. “I think I was just throwing spaghetti against the wall and seeing what stuck. It was really ‘I don’t know what …
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THE MENTORING WAY How NLBM Mentors Help Member Lawyers Build the Practice and Life They Deserve HOW NLBM PREPARES MEMBERS An adage you often hear is “the best way to learn anything is by doing.” When it comes to starting a new career as an Estate Planning lawyer through NLBM, we can say that adage …
A Long-Time Corporate Lawyer Goes Out On A Limb In the first week of January 2021, Will Stafford quit his job at a demanding corporate law firm in Houston, and started his own law practice. It had been four years in the dreaming, but on day one, facing no revenue, he had the same …
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A New Lawyer Seeking to Change the Status Quo Finds Himself Adrift Like so many other lawyers, David Taylor’s very first job out of law school found him at a litigation-heavy law firm practicing Estate Planning law. “When I interviewed for the job, one of the first things they told me was, ‘We don’t …
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