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Most law firm conferences follow the same formula: badges, a lobby full of vendor booths, a ballroom, someone at a podium, a stack of CLE credits, and a flight home with a notebook full of ideas you’ll never open again. That’s not a knock on CLE. There is a role for going to CLE sessions and learning the latest law in your practice area. It’s just not the job most firm own...

Two or three partners who like each other, trust each other, and run the firm together. On paper it sounds like the healthiest version of a law firm. In practice, it’s often the exact structure holding the firm back.

If you’ve ever said some version of “we just decide things together because we’re on the same page,” this post is for you. I’m Stephanie Everett, f...

Artificial intelligence has quickly found its way into the law office. We see it drafting documents, summarizing depositions, organizing notes, and even answering phones. Yet many law firms have the same concern: “I don’t want a robot talking to my clients.”

Firms that have adopted AI answering technology aren’t ignoring that concern; they’re addressing it by desig...

No one taught me how to lead. I just had to figure it out.

I’m not complaining. It’s just the reality for most law firm owners, and I wasn’t any different. I graduated from law school, joined a firm, and was assigned a legal assistant to manage. Somewhere in there I was supposed to have picked up the skills to actually lead people—to delegate well, give feedba...

By mid-July, most law firm owners already know how the year is going. You know whether revenue is moving in the right direction. You know where the team is struggling, which projects have stalled, which problems keep resurfacing, and which decisions you’ve been avoiding. You don’t need to pull up the goals you wrote in January to feel where the firm has momentum and where ...