About How to MANAGE a Small Law Firm
How to MANAGE a Small Law Firm is a fast-growing and highly entrepreneurial business management, personal development and coaching company, specializing in solo and small law firms. Inc. Magazine has named How to MANAGE a Small Law Firm to its list of the 5,000 fastest growing privately held companies in the United States every year since 2015. We've also been named by Inc as one of the "Best Places To Work".
We are very much a “start-up” with a fast-paced growth focused environment. Working with us can prove to be the best job you ever had or the most frustrating depending on your flexibility, team-spirit, commitment to our clients and your realistic expectations about what it’s like to Fwork in a fast-paced growing business.
About the Position
In this remote role, you will function as a practice management advisor, coach, confidant, leader, guide and mentor for up to 150 owners of solo law firms who are already enrolled in our program(s). You will be part of a team consisting of yourself and other team members who serve as the practice management advisors for our clients to help them address different parts of their business.
Owners of large law firms have the corporate benefit of a Practice Management Advisor, as well as others, to drive the creation, review and continual improvement of the law firm’s business plan, marketing strategy, financial controls and systems development efforts.
Solo and small law firm owners benefit greatly when we provide them with similar corporate assistance by providing them with the strategic direction and accountability they need to drive the growth of their firm, then help them build the infrastructure to accommodate that growth as well. We provide that assistance by having members of our team serve as their outside, remote business advisor
It will be your job to lead this team as the remote Practice Management Advisor for our clients. You will be the primary guide for our clients to help them navigate our curriculum, ascending up and through our various programs, which guide a solo law firm from start-up to 7 figures of revenue.
More specifically, it will be your job to use our methods combined with your own life-experience, creativity, and intelligence to understand and help each of our clients reach the next stage of their law firm’s growth.
Your principal role will be to hold the client’s business plan in your hands. You will help them create a written business plan and marketing plan designed to drive the growth and profitability of their firm for the next 18 months, then give them the focus, direction & accountability to work that plan, one step at a time, to bring it into fruition.
When they tell you they don’t have time to work the plan, or that basic principles don’t apply to their specific law firm for some reason, it will be your job to coach them through those excuses and help them remove the roadblocks that are standing between where they are now and where they need to be.
As part of this job, you will measure assigned-client-progress and hold assigned clients accountable for taking positive actions in the direction of their stated goals. Your compensation will be positively affected by the success of our clients assigned to you.
Duties and responsibilities
Collaborating within a distributed workforce
This is a remote/virtual position. Other than our live quarterly team meetings (discussed below) this job can be done from your home office. With that said, while a virtual environment lends itself to a great deal of flexibility and efficiencies that are highly prized by most members of our team, this is a very full-time job – requiring over 40 hours per week (often 50 hours per week, for many on our team) for the average Management Advisor to execute successfully.
Each quarter our firm hosts a conference for our members (with hundreds in attendance at each event) at an upscale hotel in locations that rotate across the country. You will be expected to attend these meetings each quarter to maintain close connections with the clients assigned to you, keep yourself apprised of what we are teaching them, and learn all the inside jokes and nuances that keep this community of highly entrepreneurial lawyers tightly bound.
You will also be expected to attend weekly team meetings by videoconference for ongoing training, education and to discuss and hear being discussed any “problem cases” you need to remain aware of, and engage in reporting and other conference calls with the other members of the team to keep us all in the loop and ensure each of our clients feels the benefits of having a true collaborative team on their side.
Qualifications
This job can be performed remotely, this is a full-time, six-figure, salaried W-2 position within How to MANAGE a Small Law Firm. Your compensation will be based on the number of clients you are coaching and how you help them perform.