The quiet part of running a firm

You have people to call about a case. You have no one to call about the firm — how it runs, what it costs, whether any of it is still worth it.

“Most solo attorneys have no one who understands how the business actually runs. For the lawyers I work with, that’s the seat I sit in.”

What I actually am

I’m the person on the other end of the phone in the evening. On the way to the courthouse. In a hotel room the night before a hearing, when you didn’t want to make the drive in the morning and there’s no one to think out loud with.

Some of the lawyers I do this for, I’ve known since I sold them their first computer — before there was a firm at all. We started talking about how they stored their files and printed their documents, and we never stopped. Forty-seven years later I’m the call they make. Not their marketer. Their confidant.

Total confidentiality — both ways

Not a therapist. Not a vendor.

I won’t pretend to be your counselor, and I’m not here to sell you another subscription. I’m someone who has spent four decades watching how law practices actually run — and building things, from firms to houses — who will pick up the phone and understand the problem before you finish describing it.

If it would help to see the whole menu first, here is what’s on the list. If you would rather know who you would be talking to, that is here.