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Attracting Estate Planning Clients: Growth Strategies - NewLaw

Attracting Estate Planning Clients: Strategies for Growth In the competitive field of estate planning, st...

Estate Planning Course: Master Your Estate Planning Service with NLBM

The Ultimate Estate Planning Bootcamp Course: Elevate Your Law Practice Into a Business You Love In the d...

Unlocking Law Business Success: How to Fund Your Growth

Think Like an Investor. Redefine Risk. As a law business owner you have so many expenses. Paid advertisem...

Presentations That Convert: The Key to Growing Your Law Business

Learn the Proven Presentation Formula That Will Turn Prospects Into Clients! Is the time and money you're...

The Missing Ingredient to Your High Value Service: Affordable Premium Fees

Escape the Cycle of Lawyer Shame: How Affordable Premium Fees Can Transform Your Law Business If you're s...

How to Offer a High Value Service That AI Can’t Replace

Your Humanity Is the Key to a Service That Sells Itself! As we all know by now, AI is getting more and mo...

5 Ways to become a leader and grow your law practice

Give to your community and get more clients! If you're anything like most lawyers, you are both intellect...

How to Work Smarter When Building Your Estate Planning Practice

Work Smarter. Achieve Success Faster. If you’re anything like most lawyers, I know you’re working hard. Y...

The 3 Systems You Need for a Successful Estate Planning Practice

It's time to systemize your law firm success! Are you getting inconsistent results in your law practice? ...

Become Your Community’s Greatest Resource by Mastering Relational Lawyering

Tis the season to talk about money! It's the time of year when families get together to catch up and cele...

The Growing Demand for Life and Legacy Planning Lawyers | NLBM

Are you prepared to meet the needs of this growing legal market? We as a society are in the process of a ...

Find Fulfillment in Law: Become a Relational Lawyer Today | NLBM

It's time to change how you practice law When you think about your legal work, how does it make you feel?...

If I Can Do It, So Can You

Every single thing I’ve ever accomplished, I’ve been able to do because I saw someone else do it first. A...

The Top 3 Metrics You Need to Measure for Law Firm Success | NLBM

Are you measuring the right metrics for success? If your law firm isn't growing as fast as you had hoped,...

Transform Your Law Practice: Embrace Life and Legacy Planning | NLBM

Why traditional estate planning just doesn't cut it Do you ever feel like you're in a race to the bottom,...

How to Become the Go-To Lawyer in Your Community | NLBM

Never worry again about where your next client is coming from. Are you spending more time chasing clients...

How to Price & Package Your Legal Services

It's a common belief that becoming a lawyer is a guaranteed ticket to financial security. But the reality...

How to Transform Your Practice With Goal-based Time Management

The key to creating a law practice and life you love is to stop thinking like a lawyer and start thinking...

Change Through Better Time Management | NLBM

Utilizing Your Time to Create a Better Practice and Life Work, Work, Work Busyness is a commonly accepted...

Considering Leaving the Law for Work Life Balance?

Life as a lawyer often comes with stress, long hours, missing time with family, and chasing billable hour...

Money Math: How to Earn What You’re Worth As a Lawyer

3 NLBM Tips For Increasing Revenue On A Monthly Basis Law school didn’t teach you how to run your own bus...

How A No-Nonsense Lawyer Built A Successful Law Practice | NLBM

Striking Out On Her Own Overview When Erica Endyke started her own practice back in 2018, she’d be the fi...

Lawyer Mentors Blog - The Mentoring Way

THE MENTORING WAY How NLBM Mentors Help Member Lawyers Build the Practice and Life They Deserve HOW NLBM ...

Case Study: A Former Corporate Lawyer Becomes His Best Boss

A Long-Time Corporate Lawyer Goes Out On A Limb In the first week of January 2021, Will Stafford quit his...

What Law School Didn't Tell You. (But We Will.)

Finding Due North For (New) Lawyers Means Knowing Their Work Matters, Their Impact Is Strong, And Their T...

Law Business Advisors: You Talk. They Listen. Together You Make Plans

Law Business Advisors are your go-to resource for getting your questions answered about everything from p...

The Wrong Way to Adopt the Right Law Practice Model

From Struggling Law Practice to Lifestyle Business and Legacy Company: What to Do—And When to Do It—So Yo...

Building a Successful Virtual Law Firm: 6 Expert Tips | NLBM

Prior to the pandemic, the virtual law firm was a solution to a problem, but now it's the chosen—and in m...

New Year, New Vision (Board)

ONE Vision Board Can Help You Create The ONE Year That Can Change Your Life. (In a really good way! ) And...

Grow Your Mindset, Grow Your Law Practice

The importance of your mindset may not be anything new, but it means everything for your personal and pro...

Are You An Entrepreneurial Lawyer? Discover The Traits You Need | NLBM

Are you a hard-working, independent-thinking, learning-loving lawyer determined to find a better way to p...

Why You Should Be Charging Your Clients Affordable Premium Fees

The following is adapted from The New Law Business Model-Revealed: Build a Lucrative Law Practice the You...

How to Design a Law Firm Business Plan that Works for Your Life

You've invested a great deal of your time and resources into your education and building your law practic...

10 Law Practice Business Development Ideas: Key Takeaways for the Giving Season

The Evergreen List of 10 Business Development Activities You Can’t Live Without We’d like to take a momen...

CLE Estate Planning: NLBM Gives Credit Where Credit is Due

Law Practitioners: NLBM Gives Credit Where Credit is Due. (Continuing Legal Education Credit, That is!) T...

Case Study: Trailblazing NLBM Lawyer and Mom Launched Second Career at the Same Time as Her NLBM Journey

Second Career as Lawyer Provides First Look at New Law Business Model Starting Sooner Rather Than Later W...

Let’s Celebrate Love Your Lawyer Day

The first Friday of each November is Love Your Lawyer Day Love Your Lawyer Day, a day set aside by the Am...

How Irene Created a Full-Time Income as a Part-Time Lawyer - 2 | NLBM

Are flexible, part-time working hours and having your own legal practice mutually exclusive? In today's a...

Case Study: From Stuck and Unfulfilled Lawyer to Reborn and Renewed Lawyer

In Amy June's quest to practice law on her terms, this Entrepreneurial Lawyer found the New Law Business ...

Considering Alternative Careers With a Law Degree? You Don’t Have to Abandon Ship! Just Set a New Course

The New Law Business Model Offers You the Option to Set a Different Course You were pretty excited when y...

NLBM Coaches Get Your Law Practice Into Shape

Who can turn that, “My law practice isn’t working” frown upside down? The New Law Business Model coaches ...

EIDL Funds a Boon for Business-Building Lawyers

If you reported any business income on your 2019 taxes—either as a corporation or a sole proprietor or in...

Case Study: From Stressed-Out General Practitioner to Thriving Solo Law Practice

Today we are exploring in more detail the experience of Bonnie Faucett, a former general practitioner who...

Lawyer Stereotypes + the Truth About Lawyering

The number of lawyer stereotypes floating around out there is only eclipsed by the number of lawyer jokes...

New Law Business Model Celebrates 4th Year on Inc. 5000 List | NLBM

There’s a naughty list, and then there’s a nice list... and we’re thrilled to let you know that New Law B...

Leap Into a Law Practice You Love – Part 3

This is the third and final post in my Leap Into a Law Practice You Love series. In the first two parts o...

Leap Into a Law Practice You Love – Part 2 | NLBM

Welcome back to part 2 of our Leap Into a Law Practice You Truly Love series. If you missed the first par...

Leap Into a Law Practice You Love - Part 1

I went to law school and became a lawyer for a few reasons, one of which was so that I wouldn’t have to b...

13 Mistakes Law Practice Owners Make That Kill Work/Life Balance—and How to Fix Them

I discovered the following 13 mistakes after nearly bankrupting my own law practice (and life) by followi...

The Top 15 Traits of Successful Entrepreneurial Lawyers | NLBM

It Takes a Lot More Than a Law Degree to Be a Successful Entrepreneurial Lawyer In its simplest form, the...

Law Firm Profitability: 4 Warning Signs and How to Fix Them | NLBM

There are reasons most law practices fail, even those that appear to be successful for the lawyers that o...

5 Lawyer Technology Tools You Need Now

Embracing lawyer technology tools is a critical component to working faster, and smarter, as a solo lawye...

Quitting Law? Ask Yourself These Three Questions First!

Thinking of quitting law? There are 3 critical questions you'll want to ask yourself first... Working as ...

Optimizing Your Small Law Firm with Outsourcing, Tech, & Systems | NLBM

Becoming more efficient with your time and boosting productivity will not only benefit your bottom line b...

Case Study: Kim Considered Leaving The Law - Watch What She Did Instead

“I always felt that business had to come to me. Referrals had to come to me. That putting myself out ther...

Solo Lawyer Finds Success and Freedom with New Law Business Model

Meet Taylor Haley. Taylor had what most would consider a fantastic life: she worked in the largest law fi...

Meeting New Needs in Estate Planning: A Guide for Lawyers | NLBM

Estate planning should not just be a plan for death, but instead the opportunity to make wise choices dur...

Case Study: Single Mom Builds a Thriving Law Practice While Prioritizing Her Family

Meet Amy Hsiao. Within a year of implementing the New Law Business Model into her law practice, Amy incre...

Why Great Lawyers Don’t Accept Every Client Who Walks Through the Door

The following is adapted from The New Law Business Model by Ali Katz, New Law Business Model Founder and ...

The Best Practice Area for Lawyers With Big Hearts, Caring Souls and Dreams of Real Impact

The following is adapted from The New Law Business Model by Ali Katz, New Law Business Model Founder and ...

One Key to Great Success in Your Law Practice? Having the Right Mentor.

The following is adapted from The New Law Business Model by Ali Katz, New Law Business Model Founder and ...

Transform Your Law Practice with the Power of Journaling | NLBM

The following is adapted from The New Law Business Model by Ali Katz, New Law Business Model Founder—find...

Why You Should Consider Serving Families and Small Businesses With Your Law Practice (In a New Way)

The following is adapted from The New Law Business Model, Revealed book, by Ali Katz, New Law Business Mo...

How To Grow Yourself While You Grow Your Law Practice

The following is adapted from The New Law Business Model, Revealed book, by Ali Katz, New Law Business Mo...

Create the Law Practice You Want by Following the “Mirror Principle”

The following is adapted from The New Law Business Model, Revealed book, by Ali Katz, New Law Business Mo...

Be the Leader Your Law Practice and Your Employees Need You to Be

The following is adapted from The New Law Business Model, Revealed book, by Ali Katz, New Law Business Mo...

How to Attract More Clients to Your Law Firm: An 11-Step Guide | NLBM

There is no faster path to a law practice you hate that drains your life energy (and your bank account) t...

How to Make Money as a Solo Lawyer

Wondering how to make money as a solo lawyer, and if outsourcing drafting or hiring support will help you...

The Lawyer Who Stole Christmas

A friend of mine posted on Facebook about a grinch lawyer who ruined her Christmas by dropping work on he...

Starting an Estate Planning Practice: 7 Reasons You Will Love It

Whether you are choosing your practice area, looking for an additional revenue stream for your law practi...

Law Practice Management: Practical Strategies to Tame the Chaos

Law practice management can be overwhelming. Is it possible that making too many daily decisions has a de...

Why Self-Care Is the Game-Changer for Your Law Practice | NLBM

The following is an excerpt from an article written by Ali Katz, New Law Business Model Founder, that was...

Three Sanity Saving Tips for Lawyers This Holiday Season

This year has been “a lot”, to put it mildly, and we are heading into a holiday season that will undoubte...

Inspiration for Lawyers: Practical Ways to Cope in a Rapidly Changing World

2020 has been a radical year, full of change. Businesses are adapting, schools are now operating in a dra...

How Lawyers Can Drive Positive Change in the Legal Industry | NLBM

Lawyers! Voting is a critical step in helping create change. No matter what your political ideals happen ...

Ali Katz Named to Entrepreneur’s ‘100 Powerful Women Of 2020 | NLBM

Ali Katz, NLBM Founder, honored among the '100 Powerful Women of 2020' by Entrepreneur Magazine The Octob...

Searching for a Life as a Lawyer That Works

Are You Searching for Ways to Improve Your Life as a Lawyer? According to Google search engines, terms li...

Staying Motivated: as a Lawyer | Overcoming the Challenges | NLBM

The reality of being a lawyer can be everything but inspiring. Civil rights leader Howard Thurmon once wr...

Biglaw Burnout - The Dangers of Biglaw and Why Associates Leave

5 Reasons Lawyers Experience Biglaw Burnout Biglaw has made a big name for itself in the public eye, tout...

New Law Business Model Honored by Inc. 5000 Three Years Running!

Inc. Magazine Unveils Its Annual List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies—the Inc. 5000 For th...

Improve Client Acquisition: Fix These 3 Communication Mistakes | NLBM

Gaining More Clients for Your Law Practice Often Comes Down to One Thing Success as a lawyer in today’s w...

The Top 7 Habits of Wildly Successful Estate Planning Lawyers

Recently, our editorial staff asked Ali Katz, founder of New Law Business Model, what she sees as the top...

How to Get Clients as a Lawyer the Easiest, Fastest Way Possible

Is there a secret for how to get clients as a lawyer—the easy way? Even if you are the smartest and most ...

5 Warning Signs of Impending Lawyer Burnout

Lawyer burnout is not uncommon. Dr. Wolkstein, a career therapist, told The Atlantic, “...it’s not uncomm...

Pro Tips for Lawyers to Thrive While Working from Home | NLBM

Tips for a More Fulfilling Experience for Lawyers Working From Home New Law Business Model is a training ...

The Top 10 Coolest Things New Law Business Model Lawyers Do in Their Spare Time

Entrepreneurial lawyers who have spare time!? That’s right, we said spare time... A significant motivatin...

Why Work Life Balance as a Lawyer Is Impossible

Work life balance as a lawyer? More like work, work, work! And it takes a toll... Working in the legal fi...

How Lawyers Can Thrive and Grow During Economic Downturns | NLBM

How Can Lawyers Seize Advantage in the Coming Recession? There is a common assumption that when the econo...

10 Easy One-Pot Meals for Busy Lawyers

If you find yourself resorting to take-out dinners more than you care to admit, these one-pot meals might...

Thrive in Any Economy: Recession-Proof Your Law Practice | NLBM

With record unemployment due to the coronavirus, the writing is on the wall. We’re headed into a great ec...

10 Thoughtful Messages to Send Clients That Say "I Care"

Have you ever thought about sending a text message to clients and prospects as a way to stay top of mind?...

How to Gain Clients in Your Law Practice with Two Key Actions | NLBM

How can you, as a lawyer, use your law degree in the highest and best way possible right now, to serve yo...

Focus Your Legal Practice Area to Thrive: Avoid Being a Door Lawyer | NLBM

The worst thing that you could be right now is what we call a door lawyer. A door lawyer is a lawyer who ...

The #1 Mistake Lawyers Make In Turbulent Times | NLBM

Over the past 15 years, I've trained more than 2,600 lawyers on how to build lives and law practices they...

Lead And Thrive: Using Your Law Degree In Times Of Crisis | NLBM

I've been thinking a lot about you over the past couple of weeks, as it became clear to me that we were g...

Securing Short-Term and Long-Term Funding For Your Law Practice | NLBM

It’s natural to be scared right now, if you are. It’s also natural to see that, as a lawyer, you’ve got a...

How New Law Business Model Transforms Law Practices in 6 Steps | NLBM

A brief history of my 15 years of experience in creating the New Law Business Model, and how all lawyers ...

How to Be a Better Lawyer By Being All of Who You Really Are

Our founder, Ali Katz, speaking on a panel with Eben Pagan and Dave Logan, being all of herself and getti...

The Hidden Dangers of Legal Subscription Services for Lawyers | NLBM

Over the past two weeks, we’ve written about 4 reasons to rethink hourly billing in your law practice and...

When Flat Fee Legal Services Are Even Worse Than Hourly Billing for Your Law Practice

Last week, we gave you 4 reasons to rethink hourly billing in your law practice. Today I want to talk abo...

Still Billing Hourly? 4 Reasons to Rethink How to Price Your Legal Services

Chances are you already know this. You struggle to capture all of your time. You spend the end of the day...

Building a Successful Law Practice: From Lawyer to Business Owner | NLBM

You thought you were going to law school to be a lawyer and counsel clients, and help people. You thought...

Your Dose of Motivation to Charge More, Do More and Be More For Your Law Practice Clients

This week, one of the lawyers in our Personal Family Lawyer® program posted the following to our private ...

End-of-Year Tax Savings Strategies for Lawyers – What are Yours?

I work closely with my financial team and tax accountant at year-end to ensure I pay as little taxes as p...

Why Are There So Many Broke Lawyers? Part 2 – Differentiate Yourself

In part 1 of this article, we uncovered some of the real reasons why there are so many broke lawyers, and...

Why Are There so Many Broke Lawyers? Part 1

The public perception seems to be that lawyers make a lot of money, but in reality, that is not always th...

How to Fix Your Law Practice Cash Flow Problems – For Good | NLBM

Lack of steady, consistent, predictable cash flow is the number one problem most lawyers tell me they hav...

How to Be a Better Lawyer: 5 Uncommon Ways to Successfully Connect with Prospects

Here’s a fact: Clients come to you because they’re in discomfort, and they want your help in relieving th...

Law Practice Money Math: Determining Where You Should Focus Next

Last week, I wrote to you all about how NLBM lawyers get paid more by their clients than other lawyers, a...

Why NLBM Lawyers Get Paid More Than Non-NLBM Lawyers ... And the REAL Impact (Greater Than Money)

We all know that legal services are being commoditized more and more. We see the new online Wills and Tru...

The True Purpose of Lawyering

Given these times of turmoil and uncertainty, if you are anything like me, you may be wondering if you ar...

Case Study: Leaving a Firm to Become a Solo Successful Lawyer With 7 Kids at Home

Todd Jarvis is a father of seven (yes… you read that right… seven) and has been practicing law in Arizona...

Case Study: Leaving Biglaw to Build Her Empire

Today we are taking a closer look into the experience of Shane Jasmine Young, an accomplished lawyer who ...

Case Study: From Stressed-Out Lawyer to Happy Lawyer + Present Parent

Between the long hours, billing issues, client demands, and deadlines, the stress of practicing law can m...

Case Study: Life After Litigation

Today we are taking a deeper dive into the experience of Marc Garlett, a seasoned litigator who was unhap...

New Law Business Model Celebrates Second Year on Inc. 5000 List | NLBM

A Message from our Founder, Ali Katz Hello lawyers! I'm excited to share with you that New Law Business M...

Balancing Act: Earning Full-Time Income as a Part-Time Lawyer| NLBM

Are flexible, part-time working hours and having your own legal practice mutually exclusive? In today's a...

My Epic Fail: Lessons in Lawyer Business Development

Lessons learned from our failures often come at a cost. In this case, it was $5,500. But the things I lea...

The 'Must-Have' Conversation to Boost Your Law Practice Profitability

In this article, you will find an important consideration for all lawyers, no matter what your practice a...

Use This Legal Intake Script to Avoid Giving Free Consultations

Chances are, you are providing a tremendous amount of free legal counsel, and getting paid a meager amoun...

Life, Legacy, and The Impact of the (Faulty) Estate Planning Process | NLBM

Inheritance is so much more than just the money that you leave behind when you die. Estate planning, when...

So You Want to Be an "Affordable Lawyer?" The Affordability Paradox

You've heard me say it here repeatedly, the traditional law practice model is broken. And, if you do not ...

How You Can Put the Life & Legacy Planning Model to Work in Your Law Practice

In this blog post — the second in our series (read the first post here) —I’m going to let you know the fa...

How to Do Estate Planning the Way Your Clients (and You) Actually Want

Some time ago, New Law Business Model hosted a webinar for the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Div...

Ride the Wave to Profit in One of the Most In-Demand Law Fields

The silver tsunami is coming. Between now and 2061, an estimated $59 trillion will be transferred from 93...

Why Did Ali Katz File Bankruptcy?

This really is the elephant in the room, isn’t it? If my law practice was so successful and I was making ...

The New Law Business Model, Revealed: The True Meaning of Inheritance, Legacy, and Purpose

I have a new book coming out in 2020! And, I am so excited to share it with you because it’s the culminat...