Law Office Management

if you’re entrusting your reputation to anyone, it should be Answering Legal. We help the firms we answer for grow their reputation by making sure every call gets answered by a highly-trained receptionist, no matter when it comes in.

Ryan McKeen (Co-Founder and CEO of the Connecticut Trial Firm, LLC) joins the show to discuss the importance of hiring other people, pushing through painful times, going all in to secure a $100 million dollar jury verdict and much more!

We’ve been covering alternative fee arrangements this season because we want to explore every option we can for improving your firm. If there’s been any unifying lesson for the series, what we’ve seen is that every firm is different, and there isn’t a one-size-fits-all billing model that works for every firm.

Flat-rate or fixed-fee billing was how attorneys charged their clients before the advent of the billable hour. Now, t’s making a comeback among both clients and lawyers as the billable hour is under increased criticism for overworking and underpaying attorneys.

In this episode, Jennifer Gore-Cuthbert and host Christopher Earley discuss the benefits of scaling your practice, why lawyers should look to delegate tasks both in the office and at home, becoming a mentor for the next generation of attorneys and much more!

Where a decade ago the idea of legal subscription services would have sounded absurd to all but the most in-the-know attorneys, there are now more than a few law firms out there making a name for themselves in subscription-based billing.

Mike Race joins the show to discuss the pandemic’s impact on legal recruitment and hiring, how to be a good firm leader when your team isn’t all in the same space, evolving your practice for the new world and much more!