Life Circles

The journey begins

When a client begins their journey with you, you are the expert.

They have a need, you are their expert guide, and at the end of the engagement, they are (or at least they should be) ready to work with you in new ways.

Most law firms see each engagement as a one-time event (or at least they treat them that way). Complete the intake, draft the documents, send them on their way after the signing meeting. That is the linear model.

Life Circles

What if you think of it as a circle instead?

Each circle, or cycle, is just a step in their journey. You bring the clients from new contacts with no idea of what they need and at the end, you have people ready to bring you more new clients. Give them their own mission to help you and you have started a new journey with that client.

Relationships

And, at each stage, your firm repeats processes and builds relationships with the clients, your staff, other vendors, and more.

This is what I call the Law Firm Circle of Life.
You and your firm will benefit from learning how to build this circle.

Life in the Practice doesn’t have to be 12 hour days, six (or seven) days a week. Really!
Running the business can and should be easier.

What could change?

What if you could work fewer hours?
Without the stress?
Without forgetting the clients’ birthdays?
Or missing your family’s important events?
What if you could give more to your clients, staff, and family? To yourself?

And more …

Beyond leveraging the client circles through relationships, firms need to know their numbers.  Efficient law firms need to understand how the firm runs.  One key area is marketing.

Marketing should not be a mystery. The business should be predictable.

What if you could know which of your various marketing efforts pay off big-time and which should be stopped TODAY?

What if you could track the ROI for marketing investments … rather than taking the salesman’s word for how it pays off?

What if the business (staff and clients and systems) all did what you expected them to do and what if your Practice was so efficient that you could take one day a week off?

Or a month? (yes, in consecutive days!)

The Law Firm Circle of Life may be your answer.

Work Less!
Give More!
Live Better!

Now what?

Find out more on the website.  Browse the free eBooks or review our three-step approach to building a better practice.

You can also order the book “Law Firm Life Circles” here.

Contact us today, before you miss anything else!  984-234-5880.

Or schedule an appointment here.

About the Author Doug Koenig

Currently an Elder Law & Estate Planning attorney in Durham, NC. Educated as an engineer, worked in IT and plant floor computer systems with companies including Ford Motor Company from which I retired. THEN, I went to law school to help the elders and veterans in our communities. Now, I help attorneys in other law firms work fewer hours, give more time to others, and live better lives. We do this through systems and automation, using your business as the model. After all, it is YOUR business and we treat it that way.

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