S4:E5: The Value of a Mastermind Program

Join Seth and Jay back from vacation and discussing avoid turnover via golden handcuffs, should you have your attorneys sell themselves or not, the battle between throwing money at a problem versus delegating a solution, and the true value of a mastermind program and how to analyze which one will work for you.

What's In This Episode?

  • Welcome to the Law Firm Blueprint.
  • When you have a split of revenue so that your lawyers are getting a percentage of what they do, are they also closing that business?
  • What is the cost of turnover? What is the risk factor?
  • Don’t outsource your problems.
  • The different masterminds in the industry.
  • The Law Firm Blueprint is not a blueprint.

Transcript

Jay Ruane

Hello hello and welcome to the Law Firm Blueprint. I am one of your hosts, Jay Ruane, CEO of FirmFlex and Ruane Attorneys, a criminal defense and civil rights firm in Connecticut. With me as always, my man down there, Seth Price, BluShark Digital, SEO for law firms as well as managing partner of Price Benowitz, your DC, Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina and Idaho law firm. Seth, how’s your week going this week?

Seth Price

Pretty good, back from vacation, no major fires. Now just, you know, getting back to the grind and putting, you know, trying to tweak things, trying to move it to the next level.

Jay Ruane

Yeah, that’s what it’s all about. And you know, and it’s interesting, I feel like as soon as, as a law firm owner, as soon as you seem to be going well, things go left or go right. And not that it’s not something that you can’t handle. But a topic came up this week, and I wanted to talk to you about it, because I think it’s something that our people in our audience might want to start thinking about. And that is essentially, this idea of golden handcuffs. And it’s interesting that we talk about it in terms of a legal entrepreneur group and show, because none of us here got grabbed by those golden handcuffs, right? And we said, no, no, I’m going to do it on my own. But there’s a certain segment of the population that aren’t necessarily looking to be entrepreneurs. But they could be job hoppers. Right? You know, they stay in a job for three to five years or seven years. And then they say, let me see what is out there. Because they really are just sort of, you know, get lead, people who are lead, not necessarily leaders. And so the way that they bring excitement to their life is to start a new job. And I’m wondering, how you have sort of approached this because, you know, upsetting the applecart and losing somebody who knows your systems and knows how things work after three or five or seven years, can really do damage to you as an owner. Because at that point, things are sort of humming. And then you have to get back involved and give up the time, give up the freedom as an owner, that you have. So have you dealt with this issue before because I’m about to deal with it?

Seth Price

Well, so funny. So, when I took a vacation about 6, 7, 8 years ago, I may have mentioned it in a prior show, we lost our head finance person, and it was like miserable. I’m on a cruise ship, and I’m 2.50 a minute calling from a cruise phone before there was really Wi Fi calling. And we’re trying to figure out what to do. So the good news about now that was not the case, you and I have talked a lot on the non plaintiff side, I think rather successful by sharing the wealth, by doing a percentage of gross, I think it works both ways in protecting the firm from deadbeats, as well as incentivizing your rockstars. And that by making sure that, you know, my attitude is, again, historically has been, I may lose somebody, but I don’t want it to be for money. Now, if somebody goes to a hedge fund or something like that, I can’t change, but within, take criminal defense for a moment, right? There’s a market. And as long as you’re at or above the right place, the only time I’ve lost somebody in the last 15 years was when they got into, I think it’s happened one and a half times, they got handed a practice by somebody else, somebody else is about to retire, here’s your practice, and it’s yours. And you know, you need somebody who doesn’t mind running their own practice. And it’s a treat enough deal where they’re really going to do it. I think in both instances the original person is probably still there, and they never got what they bargained for. That said, I’m a big believer in making sure, and again, it gets tougher when it’s administrative, but we all have a few of those positions. And that’s why when my COO fell off a motorcycle couple years back, we were trying to pay at or above, and that we lost somebody despite that moment. And I feel that like on the attorney side, I think it’s a little bit trickier on the plaintiff side, but on the non family, criminal, trust and estates, there’s a way of making sure that you’re keeping up and if you do well, they do well. And while your margin might come down a few points, the stability in our firm, we’ve had people 8, 9, 11, 12 years that have stayed that would not have stayed for the length of time they’ve been around, had we not been pushing the envelope on pay.

Jay Ruane

Now let me ask you questions. So when you’re doing sort of a split of revenue so that your lawyers are getting a percentage of what business they do, so they can see the dollars and know that they’re comfortable with it. Are they also closing that business so they have to be a salesperson.

Seth Price

In general that’s… there are exceptions to everything. But on the criminal defense side, yes.

Jay Ruane

Okay. So I got to interrupt you, what if they’re shitty salespeople?

Seth Price

Then they can’t have a job.

Jay Ruane

But how do you find that out until you’re a couple of months in and numbers…

Seth Price

We recruit for it, and frankly, I think it is less the sale, which is a piece of it. And more like, what I have found, and by selling through stuff, it’s out for us to one two combination, because we have a pre sale being done by our intake department. And the main sale is being done by the attorney. Look, there are guys who have scaled practices where there’s one lawyer, nothing about the attorney sales model. But I’m talking about ones where there’s one maniacal lawyer that sits there, signs everything, who’s amazing. And then dishes stuff off and they run around.

Jay Ruane

That’s what we have, that’s my mob.

Seth Price

And it can work, if your people are great, great. But very often, my guess, is as great as your firm is, the biggest issue comes in that handoff, where somebody else shows up, and it’s not the person who signed them up, I take a little bit of a hit, again, my model is not for everybody. But the more you can do to assuage that, whether it be that original voice is always there, if they need something, whether it be a touch point from you, whatever it is, but the guys where, what I have seen, not necessarily your model, there’s an amazing person doing it, and then whoever they could possibly find to put up with them, as those attorneys running around that stay because they pay the lease, they’re not trying to, you know, you want to talk about golden handcuffs. These are guys that are the opposite, let me pay the least amount of money possible to make the most, those are guys that have turnover. And if anything, it’s that the delta, but the differentiation between the amazing sale, and the schmuck that shows up in court, that can be really problematic. At least here, the schmuck they see is the schmuck they’re going to get. Again, it’s not as scalable as the people that do it another way, I’m always jealous of the non attorney salesperson, because they’re sitting there, they’re professional, they close, we’ve done pretty well. And I have multiple lawyers running seven figures, signing it, doing it. Because when you get rockstars it works well, when you don’t, they’re problems.

Jay Ruane

Right. And you know, I’m just wondering like, how do you determine what golden handcuffs would be? If you have somebody who you’re like, I can really sort of branch out and do the stuff that I want to do as a law firm owner? Do you know, do you survey the local community and see what other people are getting? And then say, I’m tacking on 10 or 15%? You know…

Seth Price

I have not been as scientific about it. But what I’ve done is two things. One thing that we’ve done since the beginning, is if somebody brings in work and does it themselves on the non contingency side, they’re getting 50 cents on the dollar. Right?

Jay Ruane

It makes perfect sense.

Seth Price

So if you ran your own practice with limited overhead, what’s your margin gonna be, 40%? Right. So here, and if you’re not good at it, if you’re a practitioner who’s not listening to this show, it’s not easy, it would not be much to just get to the point where you’re basically, you know, in order to get margins like that, you wouldn’t even get it in your own shop. So that people, and this allows them to build a book of business, so theoretically, one of the risk factors for the way I do it is people would like build it up, I don’t need you anymore, right. But I think it’s been like a drug where they get the best of both worlds, they get a margin for their own work, and then they get a margin for the work that they do that we bring them.

Jay Ruane

Well, let me ask you this, though, about having these people that are selling themselves. Do you ever run into problems where they get a little comfortable and are like, You know what, I don’t need to sell that hard for this person. And so you’ve spent money on a lead to come in, and they’ve got, you know, a 10 or a 50 or $25,000 case, but you know what, they’re fat and happy. And so they say, I’m not gonna get on the phone at you know, four o’clock on Friday, I don’t wanna do that intake.

Seth Price

You know, so funny it’s all in the DNA because the lawyers we have, the partners that we have that get it, these are partners of ours, they make good money, they bring in good money, they run this, and it’s just the economic model, the way we do it, but they crush it. And there’s those…

Jay Ruane

I can see some people who are like… I’m gonna take on more work and I’m only gonna get 2500 bucks out of this. I’d rather leave early and hit the bar and have a couple of drinks with my friends.

Seth Price

So we had a guy who was that guy and drove deep where he’s, you know, you’re almost like a, you know, a teacher’s union mentality… but like, you know, the idea of, you know, humans clocking in and clocking out, he had a draw, he’d do just enough to get it, it was really mediocre. The guy we brought in to the same seat has more than tripled, I don’t want to say quadruple, but somewhere between triple and quadruple what the production of this guy was. So it’s all about the person. And I’m well aware of it, and I see it. So we’re, what do you see, what I would say is if somebody is crappy, and they are pulling that game, and you see it because our intake tracks which leads don’t get followed up with quickly, which ones, you know, are passed, so to speak, you know, that’s areas where I pull paid search back, because paid search really only has limited margin. And so you’re constantly figuring it out. But when you get people who are doing right, you hold on for dear life. And look, one of the other pieces that you know, we talked about golden handcuffs that are money, but we’re not dicks. We’re not sexually harassing people, something we’ll talk about a little bit, we run a nice firm with good people that do things right. If somebody, if a client is problematic, even though it hurts us, meaning financially, give the money back, like we back our people every which way. And like, Is it perfect? No. But like we have a pretty good loyal following of our partners who love what they’re doing. And it gives what we’re talking about, which is the best of both worlds of, you know, the economics of running a practice while at the same time, not the headaches.

Jay Ruane

Okay, awesome. That’s, that’s good. And I wanted to talk a little bit about this, because I think it’s something that people have to consider. Because if you do have somebody and you can, and the immediate thought is, if I can pay somebody over market, that is profit that I should be able to take as the owner and bring it home. And so I’m taking money out of my own pocket, to be able to give somebody more money than the market should bear for that person. And that right there, you know, it can really hurt, you know, because you’re thinking shit, I should be able to pay you market, because that’s what the market…

Seth Price

But to me, I don’t know. So that makes it make your point, I would like to believe, I know that the market keeps moving, so it’s not, I would like to believe that for the people that perform, you’re paying above market, you should never be at market because market keeps moving. Look, I told you, I always track the number of people we lose that we don’t want to lose. In the lawyer side, very few, I gave you an example before somebody was handed a practice. But rarely, rarely has that happened and generally it’s, you know, again, it’s happened a handful of times. But I’ll take the other side of this, where we saw during COVID, that the markets went north. And when you’re paying quote in quote at market, like where it’s not like on the better side of market, the moment there’s a bump, I think it’s just dangerous territory, that you want to make sure that the people you want, if everybody in the team made 5 or 10k more than quote unquote market on the administrative side, right? It adds up, it goes towards it points on the bottom line. But look at the cost of turnover, we’re going to have one of the moguls on in a few weeks talking about something to do with Chris, where they try to charge what the cost of losing a person is. So if there’s a problematic employee, what are their strengths…and then like what is the cost of turnover, and you’re trying to put numbers on these things so you can figure out, when do you make a move with that mediocre player, which we held on for years more than we should have. But once we made the move, we got 4x 3x our return, you know, so it’s constantly I think, looking at that, and look it’s easy to say spend money, especially when you start out. But I think that one of the things, and you and I’ve talked about this over the years, is identifying a few of those people that aren’t going to allow you, if you leave for the beach, and you can’t enjoy yourself, that’s worth a lot, who are the few people that allow you to stabilize that, you know, and making sure that slightly even more so that you’re not on the bubble, but on the right side of the bubble.

Jay Ruane

I mean, think about it, if you’re willing to give up, it’s like saying all in, you know, for a lot of our audience, you give up 25,000 or $50,000 a year, but you guarantee yourself, you know, three vacations a year where you’re not freaking out, that has value in and of itself just for your ability to maintain…

Seth Price

And the risk factor, because 1000 decisions will be made when you’re not in the office, right. And, you know, I just spoke to somebody today, one of the issues he’s dealing with four or five years later are issues that took place when he was out of the office. So like if you have the right team on the bus, to quote Collins, then you know, we’re…

Jay Ruane

Well, let’s talk about that. Let’s pivot a little to business owners decisions that we have to make as lawyers and as legal entrepreneurs, as firm owners, we were talking in last week’s show, a little bit about your HR person and how they came to you and said, Hey, look, you know, in some states, we’re required to do certain types of training, or at least make people aware of policies and procedures and that type of thing. And here’s the solution, and it’s gonna cost a couple $1,000. But it’s one thing to sort of take a major issue that could creep up and take it off your plate because you have a plug and play solution.

Seth Price

First of all, nothing’s plug and play. Second, I just want to throw it to the audience. HR is something I got many years later, I got 40 lawyers and 100 employees. So having an HR person is not something we are recommending right out of the gate for startups.

Jay Ruane

Absolutely not. I don’t have an HR person.

Seth Price

Right, exactly. And like, you know, you people who have these different skills, you need recruiters, you need different things. I’m a big believer in recruiters as soon as you can afford one if you want to grow. But so, you know look, we have an HR person who’s post COVID, she seems solid, she comes into the job and she says, Hey, there’s a suite of services, you can buy a SAS based software, everyone can log in, it will track what they’re doing. And it’s like X 1000s of dollars. Right? Because I’m sort of stuck between two worlds, money solves that problem, sign the check. It’s not solving a problem. It’s inoculation if you get sued for sexual harassment. Remember, one thing is make sure you and your partners don’t do stupid stuff. Even so, this is an additional inoculation. You should have it, right. So what do I do, I pick up the phone to Dan Schwartz, he already has a paid solution for states that require a two hour course like I think Connecticut, California, a few others require it. And we’re going to work on bringing that to the blueprint over the next few weeks. What I’ve asked them to do is for people like us, right, where I don’t want to just keep throwing money at it, right? I’m paying an HR person, I don’t want to pay the HR person to bring paid solutions. I’m like, Okay, we have a relationship. It really is sexual harassment. It’s not a suite of them. It always sounds, Oh, wow, there are 100 videos they can watch on 1000 thing? Are they great? I always look at it like, will anybody ever watch it? I wish I could pay by the minute. It’s sort of like, I always say, if I’m doing a happy hour, I’m trying to bring prospects in. And I always say like, god forbid we spend $1,500 on drinks, I’d love it. We should be so lucky. It’s not standing at the bar with a $2 bar bill. Right. So I wish that people would take advantage of CLEs and things I have online. First thing is, the first question I push back on is we have ADP for better or for worse, they’ve been solid for us. I know they’re not loved by everybody. But you know, do they have a suite of services that are included, or a small add in, add on, first. Second, can we get our buddy Dan to put something together so that we have something which checks the box, right? Number one reason that we didn’t get any sexual harassment, don’t sexually harass people. Second is, let’s make sure people know what it is. There’s not the gray stuff. Right? That’s super important. So we’ll do something. But the question is, are we gonna throw money at it? You know, are we gonna throw money at it? Or are we just going to, you know, is this something we really need, whereas, like, it’s easy to spend money, I get this all the time, we’ve talked about this over the years, new software, particularly Salesforce… but there’s a software and as you get into the higher level software’s, there are things that if you add on, for instance, DocuSign, it’s $50 a month, but if you wanted to integrate with Salesforce, for example, it’s Box, and then you have six different companies, you can choose, it’s a license, very expensive to do it well, elegantly. So all of a sudden, they’re like, but this would save us a person’s labor, or half a person. And each of these things, it’s like, I would be retired if I saved all the money from all the different things that I was supposed to save money on. And again, I don’t want to be penny wise, we now use an integrated solution for Salesforce and document signing. But we used a different not DocuSign version that was like $15,000, we used a perfectly good one that was 5000 or 6000 a year, but it’s still not nothing. And so you’re constantly evaluating. Is there a way, could I be really cheap and just get the $50 version? Well, no, we outgrew, that we really needed something more, you know. Is a $500 a month subscription, $400 a month sounds like nothing, that adds up. But at $400 a month, it really does make our team incredibly efficient. And we end up paying the piper for it.

Jay Ruane

So it’s interesting that you bring this up because last week I had some time in my Criminal Mastermind, I had actually Joey Vitaly and who you’ve known for years, as well as I have, and he had a really interesting slider part of his presentation. And it was: delegate your solutions, don’t outsource your problems. And I think that’s one of the things here is that you can just throw money at a problem, but that’s not necessarily going to solve it. It’s going to put a lot of band aids on it. Whereas, I like your approach of going and saying hey, do we have our payroll provider? Have they given us something? Investigate the options that are out there, for us here in Connecticut, our state put together a two hour video that you can watch for free. So as I just say to my people, hey, that’s part of your onboarding, watch this video, take this quiz, and then we’re covered, didn’t cost me anything. So there are resources out there.

Seth Price

Absolutely. So it’s a question of build versus buy. And, you know, look, I mean, we joke back and forth, we’ve both been on the wrong side of it, the right side of it.

Jay Ruane

I bought so many things that I thought were gonna, you know, magic wands, and there is no magic wand.

Seth Price

Right? And so like a 15Five, I paid the money for the elegant software. You probably get much of what you need through an email you created.

Jay Ruane

I get 90% of the way there using Google Form and Boomerang for Gmail.

Seth Price

Right. And for me, when I tried using a Google form with a thing, I didn’t get the same response I did when it was cool and elegant through their system.

Jay Ruane

Right. And that’s what it comes down to. So speaking of my mastermind, you know, we’re really growing the Criminal Mastermind. But I want to talk to you a little bit about masterminds this week, because coming up in about five weeks, we’ve got John Fisher’s mastermind, and, you know, the mastermind concept when it’s applied to law firms, is something that I think, really is a hidden diamond. It’s something that, you know, you go to these masterminds and you see 10 or 15, tomorrow Godoy’s got one coming up too I think… And unfortunately, I’m speaking to the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association that day, so I look to see if I can get there and make it back. And it just, there’s no flights to make it.

Seth Price

Ironically, his last one was in Texas, wasn’t it?

Jay Ruane

Was in Austin, yeah, it was where I’m going to be. So it’s like, I can’t catch a break with that. But, you know, the mastermind concept, you know, based on Napoleon Hill’s book about, you know, bringing together people to work on problems. I think it’s something that a lot of lawyers should be looking for. Years ago, I said to a bunch of my friends, both in law and outside of law, that I wanted to create sort of a board of directors of, you know, people that I could bounce ideas off of. And that’s really what a mastermind does. And I know the mastermind for Fisher is gonna be in DC, and talk a little bit about the DC because I think I went to one in DC with John’s group, but I haven’t been to all of them.

Seth Price

Right. So look, John does a really nice job. But the idea… first thing is it gets you out of the office for any of these, right? Second is, you know, I love it. I’m a junkie that I go to some where I’m the stupidest guy in the room, and I go to some where I’m, you know, way years ahead of other people starting their business, not that I don’t learn from everybody. But it’s a really great experience, I see as they become more in fashion, Fisher was way ahead of his time when he started.

Jay Ruane

Way, way ahead. I mean I’ve known Fisher for, you know, seven or eight years now…

Seth Price

Charged a very reasonable amount for it, Mario’s in the same same general league. There are ones in the PI space that are very expensive that they take part in, and there are ones where people just put it together themselves. I love them. Because of a couple of reasons. There are two different sort of general ways that I see people using them. The historical way, or the traditional way, if there’s such a way to, would be that: here’s my issue, and then people go around with the Gestalt method where they don’t say what they would do, but from their experience, how could they help, why EO uses that methodology. I find that that can be helpful, but it breaks down a lot. It’s very hard to do well, and that with a group as you get to know them, and that I’ve seen other masterminds recently, which are not as pure in how they’re set up, but are really interesting in that they do a presentation of what’s working well, which in one sense, look, these masterminds always crowdsource, especially the more junior ones around marketing to around intake, throughout operations, you know, so many major headaches. So we have stuff we’ll talk about on the show. It’s why we love the show so much. But you know, you have to decide, do you want one where you’re presenting a problem? Or do you want one where it’s a bunch of people that you really love and respect who are each going to bring something they’re doing well to the table to try to help elevate everybody. But there’s one issue, which is a lot of people, myself and others do many masterminds. And while there’s confidentiality and people stress that, once you learn something, it’s part of your DNA. Now, you’re not going to talk about something proprietary, personal firm information if it’s disclosed there. But it is an issue if that’s something that you don’t like, I know people that have never touched a mastermind, you know, I don’t want to, I want my stuff, I know what I’m doing with competitive market. I don’t want to versus for me, it’s never about the, you know, I find rarely is there a nugget that is so secret and special that it’s going to make you money. It’s all about execution. And so to me, I’ve taken the rising tides approach that I hope other people do well, but I would, you know, be very clear that it’s, you know, assume that what you’re talking, not that it’s gonna be, Hey, Jay just said that. But once Jay imparts on me that he believes in golden handcuffs, that may be compounded by my business DNA. And so that’s always an issue with these things. I think some of the early masterminds, where a paid leader ran multiple versions of it, had issues, was that it was confidential until that paid leader went to the next mastermind, and then wanted to fill the room with seats and then use the teachings of somebody else there. And that’s, so I went with the negative, I shouldn’t have, but the positive, huge, right gets you out of the office, thinking about your project, seeing that you’re not alone, having other people. Very often I see, especially in Fishers mastermind, one of three things happens: there’s a simple answer, oh my god, slice the bread this way, you’ll make money. Sometimes it’s like, Hey, this is not so simple. You got it, you know, this is something we spent a lifetime working on. And then there are the ones where people can give you their opinion on, you know, where there’s no magic answer, but you’re gonna have to decide for yourself, are you gonna use your non attorney salesperson, use an attorney and stuff, are you gonna have everybody close to the cells, there are different ways of doing things.

Jay Ruane

Yeah, you know, it’s really interesting to me, what I think one of the challenges are, is the different masterminds. So like, you’ll get some masterminds that are really focused on one particular area of law, you know, so you’ll get a PI one, or you’ll get like ours, a criminal one. And then you have this one where everybody is in a different area of law. And there’s almost like they’re speaking different languages, because the intake process for PI is entirely different than the intake process for criminal, which has got artificial time limits and sort of a pressing need, but you need to be paid, versus the intake process for trust and estates, which has made maybe a longer lead time. And one of the challenges I’ve run into is not everybody is speaking the same language at some of these. And so it’s important to find one where your people are doing the same type of thing. And it may be your build, focus on building a firm from scratch. And that’s the area that you focus on, instead of necessarily the type of law that you’re doing. Don’t you think?

Seth Price

No, no, 100%. So, look, they’re ones that are great, because they’re catch-all’s. And I think Fisher has done a nice job. But I think that there, and we’ve talked a lot about it, you know, whether or not you do breakouts for the different types of groups, but to me, the plaintiffs practice very different than the non contingency practices, people that are in the solos versus small, versus me, versus larger, each of those… now, do you learn stuff from people outside of it, absolutely. But I think that there is value to both. But if you, I would encourage people not to ignore… and what I love about what you’re doing now is, again, I’ve been part of, with you and without you in different iterations, I think mostly with you, of different masterminds over the years. But even that, I remember, it was an early DUI mastermind with the department, before virtual mastermind was a hip thing. And, you know, there were people that didn’t believe in digital and just had rolling paper as their marketing piece. I’m being facetious. But I do believe there is great value in the closer you can get to your situation, if somebody is giving you advice, from a contingency point of view for your criminal practice. It’s not always spot on. And while I would love it, I love hearing Andrew Finkelstein talk about things because he’s a freaking genius and you’re always going to do better… that very often, he can’t remember when he was at Life Science. And I can’t always remember when… and so there are elements of it… useful? Absolutely. Is it empowering? Yes. But when it comes to the threshold question, and why I’ve loved doing the show with you is, we’re at similar stages, we still remember enough of the early stuff. And we’re able to sort of add those nuances and talk it through. I’ve been at ones where there are people, their entire world is radio, the phone runs magically, they’re in a protected market. That’s the other thing, people have protected markets where stuff is different. They either hire cheaply or their cost per case is nothing. And when you have those types of things, they’re awesome. But you need to be able to not walk away, you know, upset because you can’t do that. I can’t get $500 PI cases in my market, it’s not going to happen. And, you know, I’ll give you one final example. Making sure you’re talking about apples to apples. There was somebody talking about, they had their their case manager handling a number of cases that was almost triple what our PI case manager were, and I felt inferior, I couldn’t figure it out, I talked to friends and mentors. Well, it turned out that it wasn’t that, they had one person with two people supporting them. So it was a team of three. So instead of having a team of three, I have three people. So there are certain things that you see over time, that when somebody says something that’s way out of whack, very often it turns out that there’s a reason.

Jay Ruane

Yeah, I mean, these are just some of the things that we want to talk about here on the Law Firm Blueprint, because, you know, quite frankly, while we call it the Law Firm Blueprint, there really is no tried and true blueprint to build the law firm of your dreams, because you really need to take the best that you can find and apply it to your unique situation. What happens in Alabama, what happens in California, what happens in DC, or Connecticut, we can give you our best input, but you’re the one who’s got boots on the ground. And so you’re gonna, you know, like Mike Tyson says, everybody has a plan until you get hit in the face, you know. So what we’re trying to do is say, hey, look, we’ve taken these lumps. And we’re going to give you some feedback, and some advice from some guys who who’ve taken plenty of hits. And trust me, I’ve been out on the canvas a few times. But that’s what it’s like here in the Law Firm Blueprint, we’re just here to help you guys out. So if you want to catch up with our show, please do so. We’re live every Thursday, 3pm Eastern, 12pm Pacific, here in our Facebook group. And of course, we’re syndicated to other Facebook groups. If you want to catch up with us, we have the Law Firm Blueprint Facebook group, there’s 2000 or so lawyers that are constantly posting questions. We’ve just come off a great series of hiring, managing, and letting go of people in your firm, systems for that, we also have a whole bunch of marketing systems, Seth’s BluShark people have put together some stuff that we’re going to be posting over the next couple of weeks, and I have some stuff from my marketing team. So you’re going to be able to get some really, really interesting marketing ideas, and just marketing systems, things that you can systemize, maybe even delegate to somebody else to help you get resolutions, which I think are awesome. Seth, did you have something to add to that?

Seth Price

No, just that that is awesome. And I’m pumped. I feel like we got cool branding, got some cool collateral material, and can’t wait for next week.

Jay Ruane

Yeah, we’re really sort of accelerating things here. So folks, if you want to keep in touch with us, be sure to follow us here at the Law Firm Blueprint. You can get us, the Law Firm Blueprint, wherever you catch your podcast. We are there, of course be sure to tune in every Thursday for the live show and you’ll catch both Seth and myself on any one of the social platforms by DM or by email. But for that, Seth, I’m going to sign us off here. Great week. We’ll talk about some good stuff next week. I don’t even know, we’re sort of, as things come up, we sort of want to address them. That’s why this show is best live. It gives us the opportunity to really react to things that are happening live and actively happening in our law firms. So that’s gonna be it for us, folks. Have a great week. Bye for now.

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