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The Small Firm Roadmap Revisited : A Guide to the Healthy Law Firm of Your Future
Traditional small law firm practice isn’t working. Too many lawyers struggle to build their business, get clients, meet expectations, hire talented team members, effectively use technology, sustain cash flow, pursue healthy growth, and find enough time.
We’re on a mission to change that.
What if you could own and manage the law firm of your dreams without constantly feeling unsure and overwhelmed?
What if you created a business that provided amazing client experiences and set a new standard for what it’s like to work with a law firm?
What if you slept great at night while traveling abroad for months at a time, knowing your team could run things without you with the help of thoughtful systems and optimized technology?
Yes! It’s all possible. The Small Firm Roadmap Revisited will show you how to build something different—a law firm business that is people-centered, effectively managed, and ultimately more valuable.
In The Small Firm Roadmap Revisited, Stephanie Everett and Aaron Street share a practical guide with a proven path to help
Gain clarity around the type of business you are building, choose your practice area, and think about pricing and scoping your services.Create the right roles to lead and manage your team.Hire for the right cultural and functional fit and develop your team.Market your services and deliver a valuable experience to your clients.Understand your day-to-day finances and the value of the business you are building.Develop systems so you can delegate and create a business that can run without you.Build a business that allows you to live the life you want.
The Small Firm Roadmap Revisited is your guide to realizing the dreams you had when you first launched your law firm—like flexibility, social impact, and security—and building a future successful exit.
Isn’t it time to get what you want from your small law firm?
We’re on a mission to change that.
What if you could own and manage the law firm of your dreams without constantly feeling unsure and overwhelmed?
What if you created a business that provided amazing client experiences and set a new standard for what it’s like to work with a law firm?
What if you slept great at night while traveling abroad for months at a time, knowing your team could run things without you with the help of thoughtful systems and optimized technology?
Yes! It’s all possible. The Small Firm Roadmap Revisited will show you how to build something different—a law firm business that is people-centered, effectively managed, and ultimately more valuable.
In The Small Firm Roadmap Revisited, Stephanie Everett and Aaron Street share a practical guide with a proven path to help
Gain clarity around the type of business you are building, choose your practice area, and think about pricing and scoping your services.Create the right roles to lead and manage your team.Hire for the right cultural and functional fit and develop your team.Market your services and deliver a valuable experience to your clients.Understand your day-to-day finances and the value of the business you are building.Develop systems so you can delegate and create a business that can run without you.Build a business that allows you to live the life you want.
The Small Firm Roadmap Revisited is your guide to realizing the dreams you had when you first launched your law firm—like flexibility, social impact, and security—and building a future successful exit.
Isn’t it time to get what you want from your small law firm?
384 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 20, 2023
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February 18, 2025
Before I go into my review, I feel it might make more sense to explain why I bought this book. I started my own solo firm, and I felt like this book would give me more insight on common practices for smaller law firms. Am I missing anything that other smaller firms are doing (or should be)?
Short review: 85% of this book was a waste of time in achieving my goal. If I was truly a new lawyer starting my own firm again, I would still say 75% of this book was a waste of time.
Long review: There isn’t a small firm roadmap. That was a lie. It’s more like disorganized advice how a good firm should run. The book is very disorganized. The book should be called “Healthy New Firms” or something similar to that. Also it’s basically an ad for the Lawyerist.
The first 100 pages served nothing other than to make me mad, I’m not reading this book for author’s random opinions. The “5 major changes that will affect your law firms” probably won’t affect your law firms if you are solo, or even a small firm proper. The last thing that anyone should care about when starting a firm is diversity and climate change.
If you are new to the practice of law, the authors will ensure you only know enough about how a traditional firm is structured, to then immediately bash said structure and recommend to do the opposite.
Some advice is good and specific. KPIs, think about what your clients actually see on their side, going as paperless as possible might be best for your business, etc.
The rest, however, is just general advice repeated over and over. Yes, we as lawyers should use technology. No, I do not need you to restate this same point half a dozen times throughout the book.
Overall, this book has encouraged me to consider writing my own book on how to start your own solo firm.
Short review: 85% of this book was a waste of time in achieving my goal. If I was truly a new lawyer starting my own firm again, I would still say 75% of this book was a waste of time.
Long review: There isn’t a small firm roadmap. That was a lie. It’s more like disorganized advice how a good firm should run. The book is very disorganized. The book should be called “Healthy New Firms” or something similar to that. Also it’s basically an ad for the Lawyerist.
The first 100 pages served nothing other than to make me mad, I’m not reading this book for author’s random opinions. The “5 major changes that will affect your law firms” probably won’t affect your law firms if you are solo, or even a small firm proper. The last thing that anyone should care about when starting a firm is diversity and climate change.
If you are new to the practice of law, the authors will ensure you only know enough about how a traditional firm is structured, to then immediately bash said structure and recommend to do the opposite.
Some advice is good and specific. KPIs, think about what your clients actually see on their side, going as paperless as possible might be best for your business, etc.
The rest, however, is just general advice repeated over and over. Yes, we as lawyers should use technology. No, I do not need you to restate this same point half a dozen times throughout the book.
Overall, this book has encouraged me to consider writing my own book on how to start your own solo firm.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 9, 2024
DNF. Considering some of the errors in the audiobook, I can’t believe the arrogance of the authors. They’re constantly lambasting the “old ways” of thinking and painting in broad strokes about clueless lawyers who just follow the old models.
After struggling through oddly timed pauses and weird line readings, I got the part where the narrator—one of the authors—pronounced mediocre as “medi-okra” and quit. That wasn’t the only reason, but it was the last straw.
I spent 2-3 hours listening to the preamble. Why should you start a firm? Because the future! Flexible schedule! Etc. on repeat. They never once got the part about HOW to start a firm. Evidently, they weren’t sure what a roadmap was either. If Waze spent several hours convincing me that I SHOULD go to my designation, I would delete that, too.
After struggling through oddly timed pauses and weird line readings, I got the part where the narrator—one of the authors—pronounced mediocre as “medi-okra” and quit. That wasn’t the only reason, but it was the last straw.
I spent 2-3 hours listening to the preamble. Why should you start a firm? Because the future! Flexible schedule! Etc. on repeat. They never once got the part about HOW to start a firm. Evidently, they weren’t sure what a roadmap was either. If Waze spent several hours convincing me that I SHOULD go to my designation, I would delete that, too.
April 28, 2023
great advice
Very forward and longterm advice that I much appreciated. I highlighted and took notes that I’ll have to go back to because there is a lot of great advice on what should be considered for small firms. I hadn’t even thought of what an exit plan is, and this book taught me the basics of that. No matter where I end up, I now feel I can be useful and effective.
Very forward and longterm advice that I much appreciated. I highlighted and took notes that I’ll have to go back to because there is a lot of great advice on what should be considered for small firms. I hadn’t even thought of what an exit plan is, and this book taught me the basics of that. No matter where I end up, I now feel I can be useful and effective.
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