In this episode, Jim & Tyson interview Jeff Horn, owner and principal of Horn Law Group, a firm that specializes in family and divorce. Hereunder Jeff tells about why he focused in family and divorce law, and his two books: Shock Proof Divorce and Shock Proof Family Law. Tune in as they talk about how having processes for everything in the office has helped workflow, the challenge he took in breaking a comfort level and how you learn through experience, and his aim at recruiting lawyers that only want to be family law practitioners to partner with them and grow geographically.
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Jim’s hack: Book "Tiger Tactics”: Powerful Strategies for Winning Law Firms by Ryan McKeen, Billie Tarascio, William Umansky, Theresa DeGray and Jay Ruane. Will have them on MaxLaw with tactful practical things.
Jeff’s hack: Reading book “The courage to be disliked” by Ichiro Kishimi - Some highlights > “You are not a victim, you are not in competition with everyone else during competition with yourself to be your best sales” “Do what you do for your community” - Look at the practice of law
Tyson’s tip: Eliminate least profitable activity from your life and start doing more profitable activities
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In this episode, Jim & Tyson interview Todd Smith, an appellate lawyer from Austin, Texas who runs his own law firm; Smith Nobles Appeals and is the president-elect of the Austin Bar Association. Listen as they go over Todd’s business and discuss about his mindset running his firm and helping lawyers with appeals, marketing strategies and systems, paying special attention to the importance of building personal relationships and networking.
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“Look, you are really good in what you do, you are a successful trial lawyer, you get good results for your clients, and if you don’t get a good result you are smart enough to handle an appeal. But what you really ought to be able to do is focus on what you do best, and this is what we do… (...) We want to help you strategize... ”
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Jim’s hack: James Clear, sends out an email at the end of every year with a link to all of the book summaries that he’s read that year. Interesting, useful and shareable content.
Todd’s tip: A time management app based on the Pomodoro technique. Focus Keeper.
Tyson’s tip: A technology test website for when you are hiring employees. Employ Test.
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In this episode, Jim & Tyson interview Patrick J. Higgins, a Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury and a Litigator Lawyer out of New York who has recently opened his own law firm; The Law Offices of Patrick J. Higgins, PLLC. Listen as they go over this big step after practicing for over 32 years; his mindset, strategy, marketing, challenges and surprises on the way!
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Jim’s hack: When you are working on a brief or any kind of pleading or anything important, right before you are done editing it, when you think you’ve edit it as much as you can, change the font to a different font and make it bigger. When you read the text again you see things differently.
Patrick’s hack: A client communication tip. When you explain something to a new client, ask them to relate back to you what you just told them.
Tyson’s tip: Speak to your accountant and reduce your tax bill for next year.
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In this episode, Jim & Tyson interview Megan Zavieh, with Zavieh Law. Megan is an attorney with a broad range of litigation experience now focusing on attorney defense in the California State Bar disciplinary system. Listen as they go over her business, her strategies and marketing, information products and ethics.
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Jim’s hack: Google released some new tools that allow you to assess how your website is doing. https://web.dev/measure, fixes and scores.
Megan’s hack: Read your Ethics Rule before the end of the year!
Tyson’s tip: Go out and do some research on Alexa. Get involved.
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In this pop-up episode, Tyson interviews Paul Lee, the Director of Business Development at The Expert Institute. The Institute connects attorneys with expert witnesses in all specialty areas. Listen as they go over what The Institute does and how it can help lawyers and law firms.
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In this Pop-up episode, Tyson interviews Marisa Portuondo, a solo practitioner from Miami, FL. Marisa owns Portuondo Law Firm and focuses on business law and property damage. Listen as they discuss about hiring the right person and go over the different processes and techniques they use in their law firms.
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In this episode, Jim & Tyson will go over a list of 6 reasons why Jim’s firm is transitioning away from Infusionsoft to another softwares.
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Jim’s hack: Take a look on what you are doing and all the pieces software you are using. It makes you analyze where you are spending your money and what’s most effective. And be open to looking at other things, other pieces of software that might do things a little better.
Tyson’s tip: Tyson had urgent need of an answering service and he’s been using ReceptionHQ. They really pulled through.
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In this episode, Jim and Tyson will catch up with each other. They will go over what’s been going on with their businesses and then dive in into this week’s topic: where are they going to be 25 years from now. Also, they will discuss about building a culture in a law firm and BHAGS.
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This episode is all about building for the future, expanding, and putting in place systems that will allow us to grow; Innovating and improving ourselves.
BHAGS - Big Hairy Audacious Goal
“If you pick the wrong BHAG, your setting your firm off on a terrible course. If your team isn’t unified on that goal, your gonna screw the whole thing up.”
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins
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Jim sees his firm with offices across the country and as the biggest law firm for family immigration services, with all their systems build out and a franchise model.
Tyson wants to have the most successful personal injury law firm in the midwest, with an office in every single city of the midwest.
Hacking’s hack: A book about having a learning organization:
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization by Peter Senge
Tyson’s tip: An app to look good.
Custom Clothing Made in Your Size
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In this episode, Jim and Tyson interview Karen Caffrey a licensed professional counselor and a lawyer; Karen went from the practice of law to the practice of therapy mainly counseling lawyers. They will go over the importance of wellbeing and health for lawyers, the mindset of wellbeing, and how that wellbeing can be achieved. Also, how therapy works and how it can help your personal and business.
“You can’t be a good lawyer if you are not a healthy lawyer.”
Karen’s web site: http://www.karencaffrey.com/
What does it mean to be healthy?
It’s multifaceted, there’s a physical aspect, a spiritual aspect, a work aspect and a mental and emotional aspect...
Lawyers are reluctant to go to therapy
Because of 2 things: first, stigma; the fear of how are they going to be judged, and the second is fear on confidentiality.
The business of law and psychotherapy
“The nexus between the business of law and psychotherapy Is a lot of the challenges lawyers face in having a good business of law come from psychological reasons.”
“Who we are as people, directly impacts who we are as lawyers and who we are as business owners doing the business of law.”
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Hacking’s hack: Whenever you can take a day off of the week. Unplug yourself: get away from the phone and the computer, the office.
Karen’s tip: Put your wellbeing on your radar screen and to do this by diaring it. You can dairy it every day, and spend 5 minutes talking about your wellbeing. Prioritize your wellbeing.
Tyson’s tip: Productivity - A website: Activtrak: https://activtrak.com/. It allows you to plug in yourself, your partners and employees, and it shows your productivity level.
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