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Last Chance to Make 2022 the Year You Start Your Law Firm

You may be be thinking about launching a law firm of one, but if the sign-ups for our upcoming webinar, Make 2022 The Year You Start Your Law Firm, you’re not alone. And it’s not too late to join the webinar scheduled for Friday, November 19 at 3 pm ET by signing up here. Join us. And if you need some inspiration for why the time to start is now, check out some of the posts that launched thousands of law firms. And maybe yours too.

Hope to see you on Friday!

If you’re already set on starting a firm and you’re ready to implement, check out my friend Andrea Cannavina & company’s https://www.lawyerfive-0.com event on December 2.

Some Inspiration to Start

Eleven Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Be Afraid to Start Your Law Practice

Inspiration for Lawyers From A Boy Who Built Windmills
Trust yourself and believe. Whatever happens, don’t give up. William Kamkwaba

What If Today Was Your Last Day To….

“Give notice at your unspeakably miserable job and start the law firm or company you always dreamed of.”

Here’s to the Crazy Ones
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.”

Dear Law Firm of Mine
After all, we pulled a fast-one once already that day we opened for business; creating something out of nothing, light out of dark, a highway out of a road to nowhere. Our journey through the pandemic hasn’t always been pretty; many times, we slogged through mud – but one step in front of the other, we emerged on the other side.

Starting a Law Firm = Life on the Wire
“There’s a lightness that comes from taking a risk or embracing uncertainty, or embarking on a course not knowing where it will take you but doing it anyway without a Plan B or the safety net of a second income or a steady salary. Because life is on the wire, as Karl Wallenda famously observed. The rest is waiting.”

Who Cares About Opening Doors When You Can Own the Building
Even a door left ajar so wide that every Ivy League graduate can pass through will never match the extraordinary scope of human imagination to envision and actualize an entirely different path.

Why Purpose Is More Important Than Planning When Starting a Law Firm
Some lawyers starting firms have a grand vision in mind from the get-go — and quite honestly, for all the focus on the need for business plans and six-months’ worth of savings — in my experience, the big picture lawyers are the ones most likely to succeed. They’re both obsessed with their mission and proud of being business owners so they focus on the task at hand like a dog with a bone. They almost can’t lose. By contrast, lawyers who think small focus on details rather than the possibility

The Unexpected Surprises of Starting Your Own Law Firm
You will find kinship with other solos and smalls. No matter the age or gender or practice area of your solo/small colleagues, you share a common experience. If you worked at a big firm before starting a practice, you probably looked down at the solo civil litigator who you now turn to for mentorship and advice. As a young lawyer at the bottom of the totem pole at your last job, you’ll break bread with practitioners three times your age and converse not as senior to slave, but as friends.

The Economy Scares Me But I Know Something You Don’t
Still, if I know anything for sure from having started a firm, it’s this: that I could do it again if I ever had to. If my clients fire me tomorrow, if my phone doesn’t ring, I know that I have it in me to start all over again. And once you start your own firm, you’ll realize that as well. Perhaps you will fail, but more likely, you’ll succeed beyond your wildest dreams. But either way, once you learn first hand what other solos and I have, your life will never be the same.

The Transformational Power of Law Firm Ownership
Ownership can transform a once unemployed associate to a boss lady lunching with a male colleague. Ownership can transform penniless unemployed law school graduates into practitioners with six-figure law firms. Ownership can transform solo and small firm women lawyers into elected judges. Ownership can transform ordinary lawyers into agents of change for the legal profession.