Podcast Episodes

Engaging your team around process improvement is a vital part of successfully implementing changes in the way you work in your law practice. When everyone is on the same page, working toward the same goals

Are you struggling to keep up with your law practice workload, like there’s never enough time to get everything done? You may be operating at or over your practice’s ideal effective capacity, meaning just one

A common piece of conventional wisdom around how law firms prioritize their work is that they should organize everything around deadlines and due dates. While deadline-driven prioritization does have a place, it’s my experience that

Why is the concept of “start with what you do now” crucial for creating meaningful and durable change in your law practice? This principle helps you understand your current processes and the people involved in

Melissa Shanahan, founder of Velocity Work and host of The Law Firm Owner Podcast, teaches her clients a planning and accountability method she calls Monday Map/Friday Wrap. This method highlights some vital parts of the

Visualizing your work on a Kanban Board can be a life-changing improvement to your and your team’s overall productivity. But adopting the board as a tool and the Kanban method more broadly can be a

The lawyer shortage is a complex issue with multiple factors at play, but the impacts are becoming apparent everywhere, from the public defender crisis to the civil access to justice gap, to the fierce competition

I’ve spoken before about the importance of making policies explicit. But what does it mean to draft an effective policy in your law firm?Tune in this week to discover what I believe are the elements

One of the features of modern business is that there’s tons of pressure to grow, scale, and do more with less. Lawyers and their teams aren’t exempt from this expectation. It makes sense to leverage

In past episodes, I’ve talked in detail about individual practices and how the Kanban method has upleveled them, and today’s show provides living proof. That’s because I’m talking with two clients of mine, Jess Birkin

Have you ever put a ton of time and attention into a piece of legal work only to realize that it’s not quite hitting the mark for your client? Or maybe you’ve delivered a technically

Most lawyers think of their intake form as something that they need to send to the client so they can get the information they need to actually do the legal work their client requires. But