Practice Tips for Lawyers

Making Your Law Practice Purposeful and Profitable

Are You Ready to Add an Associate or Legal Assistant?

2023-02-27T09:48:20-08:00September 17, 2021|Growing Your Law Firm|

Staffing your firm is a double-edged sword. The additional support is often vital to maintaining a healthy and profitable caseload.  Yet, the additional overhead and drain on assets that go with adding staff can seem overwhelming and intimidate the best of us. There is no doubt that a careful cost and benefit analysis is necessary when altering [...]

Selling Yourself to Potential Clients

2023-07-27T11:20:40-07:00September 17, 2021|Growing Your Law Firm|

No attorney likes to see themselves as a salesman. We are much too sophisticated and analytic for that. However, there are so many aspects of our professional life that require us to convince others to trust us and accept our view on issues that it is almost impossible to not [...]

10 Tips to Start 2021

2023-02-27T09:11:18-08:00September 17, 2021|Growing Your Law Firm, Managing Your Law Firm|

Towards the end of every year, we should all look at what we have accomplished professionally over the previous months, evaluate, and make a game plan for our business in the coming year.  It seems like a simple enough concept. And yet it is a process that frequently gets [...]

Building Confidence in Your Virtual Client Meetings

2021-09-17T12:50:43-07:00September 16, 2021|Managing Your Law Firm|

We are all adjusting to the “new normal” of virtual client meetings… whether the format is one of the plethoras of options for video conferencing, telecommunicating, old school letters, or emails.  Honestly, we normally prefer an in-person face-to-face experience; but the times call for making the best of what is [...]

DLFM Annual Mixer (2019)

2019-11-21T10:16:20-08:00November 13, 2019|Events|

The date is October 24th, 2019; it is a Thursday. The scene: Bowlero, a modern bowling alley with an industrial twist just south of Seattle. The event: DLFM Annual Mixer Let me paint you a picture. It all starts when you open the doors. Leading into the space you [...]

Morris-Sockle Earns a Spot on the Inc. 5000 List

2019-11-12T11:15:52-08:00September 17, 2019|Awards & Recognitions|

For the second time we are thrilled to share that Morris-Sockle, the parent company of Divorce Lawyers for Men™, made the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing privately owned companies in America! We are ranked #98 in Washington State, and #310 in the Consumer Services category. Though our law firm [...]

Is Avvo working for you or are you for them?

2019-11-12T11:18:13-08:00May 10, 2019|Growing Your Law Firm|

Platforms like Avvo, Yelp, and other attorney directories are sold to attorneys as means to help potential clients find and select the attorney for legal services.  The directories provide consumers with a means to see reviews and rankings of the attorneys.  At first the legal directories look like an [...]

Divorce Survival Rules for Your Clients

2019-11-12T11:18:26-08:00April 5, 2019|Managing Your Legal Clients|

As Divorce Lawyers we are comfortable in mediations and the courtroom. That is where we spend many days of our lives practicing our tradecraft, but for our clients this is a new and scary place.  It is an environment in which they do not know the rules of success [...]