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The Renegade Lawyer Podcast
I am more convinced than ever that nothing that traditional bar organizations are doing is going to move the needle on the sad stats on lawyer happiness ...
The root cause of all lawyers' problems is financial stress. Financial stress holds you back from getting the right people on the bus, running the right systems, and being able to only do work for clients you want to work with. Financial stress keeps you in the office on nights and weekends, often doing work you hate for people you don't like, and doing that work alone.
(Yes, you have permission to do only work you like doing and doing it with people you like working with.)
The money stress is not because the lawyers are bad lawyers or bad people. In fact, most lawyers are good at the lawyering part and they are good people.
The money stress is caused by the general lack of both business skills and an entrepreneurial mindset.
Thus, good lawyers who are good people get caught up and slowed down in bringing their gifts to the world. Their families, teams, clients, and communities are not well-served because you can't serve others at your top level when you are constantly worrying about money.
We can blame the law schools and the elites of the profession who are running bar organizations, but to blame anyone else for your own woes is a loser's game. It is, in itself, a restrictive, narrow, mindset that will keep you from ever seeing, let alone experiencing, a better future.
Lawyers need to be in rooms with other entrepreneurs. They need to hang with people who won't tell you that your dreams are too big or that "they" or "the system "won't allow you to achieve them. They need to be in rooms where people will be in their ear telling them that their dreams are too small.
Get in better rooms. That would be the first step.
Second step, ignore every piece of advice any general organized bar is giving about how to make your firm or your life better.
The Renegade Lawyer Podcast
The Story of a Legal Tech Startup - How Intaker Is Changing the Face of Chat for Legal
"Literally, from day one for us, and we use Intaker both at the Ben Glass Law website and at the Great Legal Marketing website. It, it has worked. And what we like about it is that we have designed, it's AI with thinking, with human thinking to create an extraordinary experience for the consumer who is shopping for an attorney online." -- -- Ben Glass
This is the amazing story of how an idea for a new kind of chat software in legal came to be, and how the company, Intaker is starting to dominate the world of chat in the legal industry.
A wide-ranging discussion wth Joe Ruotolo, Intaker's director of strategic partnerships.
We discuss:
- what events you really need to be at if you want to be in a room of entrepreneurial lawyers;
- why lawyers who aren't paying attention to what the mega advertisers are doing with tech may soon find themselves out of work;
- how intake can be your lead management software, in addition to being your non-human chatbox (and why this is so good for solo and small firm lawyers)
- How Intaker is managing it's growth rate and how it onboard new law firm's to its community.
- How a chance conversation on the day he walked out of his old job lead to the job of Joe's dreams.
Mentions include:
- Infusionsoft/Keap
- Smith AI (virtual receptionists)
- PILMMA coaching
- Great Legal Marketing membership
- CasePeer Case Management.
Joe Ruotolo is the Strategic Partnerships Manager at Intaker. Joe has a background in Stem, and holds multiple degrees within that field. He boasts years of experience in providing legal marketing agencies, entrepreneurs, legal tech companies the tools and information needed to excel in the most value to their clients.
For more on Joe, visit https://intaker.com/home/
Ben Glass is a nationally recognized personal injury and long-term disability insurance attorney in Fairfax, VA. Since 2005, Ben Glass and Great Legal Marketing have been helping solo and small firm lawyers make more money, get more clients and still get home in time for dinner. We call this TheGLMTribe.com
What Makes The GLM Tribe Special?
In short, we are the only organization within the "business builder for lawyers" space that is led by two practicing lawyers.
One thing we're sure you've noticed is that despite the variety of options within our space, no one else is mixing
the actual practice of law with business building in the way that we are.
There are no other organizations who understand the highs and lows of running a small law firm and are engaged in talking to real clients. That is what sets GLM apart from every other organization, and it is why we have had loyal members that have been with us for two-decades.
