April 7, 2025

Lauren Lester and A Different Practice with Dori DeCarlo in The Business Spotlight

Lauren Lester and A Different Practice with Dori DeCarlo in The Business Spotlight
Lauren Lester and A Different Practice with Dori DeCarlo in The Business Spotlight
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Lauren Lester and A Different Practice with Dori DeCarlo in The Business Spotlight

Meet Lauren Lester, a trailblazing solo attorney who's challenging the traditional law firm model.

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Meet Lauren Lester, a trailblazing solo attorney who's challenging the traditional law firm model. Fresh out of law school, she built a thriving practice that generates $250k+ annually while working part-time - proving that attorneys can succeed without sacrificing their wellbeing. Lauren's journey from new graduate to successful entrepreneur isn't just about profits; it's about transforming how legal services are delivered, making quality legal help more accessible while helping attorneys work less, earn more, and serve better.

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Hello, everyone, welcome to today's Word of Mom Radio. Here

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on the Word of Mom Media Network. I'm your host,

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Dori Di Carlo, and you know we are here a

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week after week, show after show, breaking those myths that

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morepreneurs and business women, especially those of us building our

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businesses from home, that we're just dabbling in between bake

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sales and getting our nails done. We're not. We are smart,

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we are savvy, and we are sharing the wisdom of

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women in business and in life. And I'm looking forward

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to bringing today's guest into our business spotlight. I'd like

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you to meet Laura Lester, a trailing solo attorney who's

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challenging the traditional law firm model. Fresh out of law school,

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she built a thriving practice that generates about two hundred

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and fifty thousand dollars plus annually while working part time,

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proving that attorneys can succeed without sacrificing their well being.

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Lauren's journey from new graduate to successful entrepreneur isn't about profits.

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It's about transforming how legal services are delivered, making quality

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legal health more accessible while helping attorneys work less, earn more,

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and serve better. I like your mission, Lauren, I really do.

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So.

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With that being said, welcome to Word of Mom Radio.

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Thank you, Dorian. I'm so excited to be here.

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I am thrilled to have you, and I would love

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for you to take us on your journey. What just

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made you decide to become a lawyer, And then I

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want to know how you built a successful practice right

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out of law school.

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Yeah, it's a little bit crazy. So that moment of

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learning that I passed the bar, as you can imagine

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for most attorneys, is absolutely thrilling. But I came to

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that journey on a little bit different of a path.

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So law is actually a second career for me. I

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spent about a decade in the web development space and

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just kind of hit the ceiling, figured out that that

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wasn't what I wanted to do forever, and so wanted

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to find a path that would allow me to be

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an entrepreneur. So I actually went to law school to

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open my own business, which most lawyers don't say, but

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I found that it would give me the freedom that

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I was looking for. I wasn't a mom yet, but

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that was on the horizon, and so part of why

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I wanted to have my own practice was so that

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I could be a mom and so that I could

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make my own hour. So finding out that I had

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passed the bar was going to get licensed with such

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a thrilling moment for me, But then it came with

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a sobering realization that I had no idea how to

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run a business. They didn't teach that in law school.

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They just hand you this paper and say congratulations, you

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can lawyer, now, good luck. So I looked around at

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what other lawyers were doing, like mostlorepreneurs probably do when

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you start a business, like, well, I don't know what

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is everyone else doing, and I found the same story.

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It was high, buildable our rates, litigate everything, keep cost

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really vague, and don't actually tell the client what it's

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going to cost. And I thought that stinks, like I

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couldn't be a client of a law firm like that.

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That wouldn't work for me. I got a budget, right,

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I have a family, I need to make sure I

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can afford this, and so I said, I'm not going

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to do it that way. I want to build a

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firm that I can be a client of, and so

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I started to piece together ways that I thought were

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more client centered. So how would I want to work

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with an attorney, especially in you know, high conflict areas.

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I did divorce law for a long time. Most folks

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don't want to fight till the death withouse and drain

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all of their retirement. They just want to have a

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resolution that works for everybody and allows them to move on.

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So I really focused on what do legal consumers want

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and built a practice around that. And it's been almost

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ten years down this will be the tenth year this year,

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which is really exciting. And just tried to have a

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bit of a different practice made that really successful. And

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so now I teach other lawyers who do not want

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to follow the traditional model and want more of a

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work life blend in their life how they two could

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do the same, which will hopefully give more of our

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communities access to affordable legal representation.

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I'm so happy to hear this because, as we talked

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about before we started, my children's dad and I divorced

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back in ninety four. We never went to court. We

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drew up our own separation agreement, had it notarized, and

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a year later took it to a mediator, and who

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thought what we were doing was so unorthodox. And I

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was like, you know what, we have three kids. And

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I kept telling my children's father because you know, he

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wanted to just go to court. And I said, you

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know what, we will never find a way to be friends.

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And he said, how can we be friends we're getting divorced.

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I said, because we have three children, and it's not

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their fault that we can't make this work. We were

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in counseling five and a half years, so it's not

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like we just said, ah, screw this. We did everything,

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it didn't work. We worked great as parents, we really did,

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and at one point actually tried to get back together,

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and our kids were like, okay, now we understand why

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we're divorced because they were six, four and two when

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we split up. And as you know, eight years later, huh.

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We did not work married. We just did and some

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people don't. But there's no reason to be adversarial about

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it when you have kids. And that was my son

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who was not even six years old. His friend. We

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were watching her parents have this knockdown, drag out fight,

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and after we left, he goes, you know, she doesn't

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mind that her parents are divorced. She kind of likes it.

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She is to birthdays, to Christmases, to bedrooms. How come

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people who get divorced don't remember that they loved each

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other enough at one point to get married and have

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a family. And out of the mouths of babes and

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I like what you're doing, because lawyers should remind their

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clients of that, not try to get them to fight

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about Aunt Betty's table that neither one of them want.

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So for you, how do you work with attorneys helping

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them learn that they can actually not have to have

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their clients become adversaries and still give them a quality

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service and everything else, working smarter, not harder. How do

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you work with them doing that? Lauren?

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God, it's a mindset shift, because you know, we're taught

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in law school and the profession as a whole is

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very adversarial. And so when you get out and you

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see folks who are further down the road that are

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just going to take everything to a drag out fight,

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you think that's the only way to practice law. And

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it's really helping attorney see that at the end of

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the day, we're a business that solves a problem, just

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like you would go hire a plumber when you've got

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a leak in your house, right, you don't want the

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plumber coming along and saying, well, I'm just gonna tinker

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and try all of these things and i'll billy you

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for my time and let you know when i'm done.

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You would be furious. She'd say, no, just fix the leak.

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What do you have to do to fix the leak?

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What's the quickest way we can get there? And I

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think attorneys have lost sight of that. It's happened certainly

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over decades. No way back in the day, attorneys were

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a flat fee. They were there to help solve a problem,

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you know, and then life got complicated and we sort

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of went along for the ride. So it's really helping

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solos in particular, remind them you're a business. You're here

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to solve a problem, and your clients want you to

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solve it effectively and efficiently. So a big part of

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what I help them do is have that mindset shift

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and then really focus on the solutions they provide, not

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the time they're spending, because when attorneys spend time, they're

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looking just to spend more time, and typically that means

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what issues can we bring up? Oh, you wanted that table, right,

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Let's make sure that we fight over that. And the

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client doesn't know any better because we're in the position

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of expertise and authority, right, so they think, oh, I

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guess we have to fight over the table. They don't

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realize there's another option. So it's really having attorneys see,

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you know, what solutions are you providing, How can you

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do it in a way that's based on the value

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you provide, not the time that you're spending, because that's

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not what legal consumers ultimately want, and then building a

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business around that so that they can work less oftentimes

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earn more, and then they're serving their clients better by

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actually giving them what the clients are looking for.

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Again, so refreshing to hear an attorney speaking like this, Lauren,

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I have friends who are attorneys. They are not looking

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to cut down their bill of the hours. They're really not.

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They are looking at the fact that they want their

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kid to go to Yale. So you know that five

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minute phone call you're going to get they're getting billed

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for fifteen minute increment, and you know, my hourly rate

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is three hundred dollars, so it's an eighty five dollars

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pluck and so really it's it really is. I'm serious.

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My mom heart is so happy you're listening to this

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because this is what lawyers used to be. You know again,

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you know, you sat down and it was like, Okay,

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here's what it's going to cost. What I mean, I know,

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this is kind of a strange question to ask you, though.

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What made that shift happen where lawyers went from here's

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what it's going to cost to that vagary of well

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we don't know how long it's going to take, and

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it's this is what I charge an hour. Why is

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that so prevalent in this profession at this point?

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Yeah, the history of it is different depending on who

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you ask, but in general, we can point it back

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to around the nineteen seventies where I think the world

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started to become more complicated and so cases got more complicated, right,

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the issues between civil parties, whether it's in a divorce

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case or a business transaction rate, it just got more complicated.

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We had more regulation and laws and things that we

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had to consider, and I think attorney said, you know,

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we don't know how to price this anymore on a

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flat feet because there's now instead of three variables that

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we're trying to control, there's thirty. So it made sense

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for them at the time to just build by the

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hour because they weren't quite sure. And I think in

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the beginning the intention was probably good. They were trying

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to balance all of the needs of everybody and find

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a solution. But then law firms came along and for

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a lot of associates gave them these very high billable

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hour requirements that folks just had to build, you know,

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eight hours a day, but to bill eight hours you

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had to work ten or twelve hours, and so it

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just became this snowball effect that then to hit those

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very high billable hour requirements, folks were just coming up

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with stuff to do and to make cases more complicated,

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or bringing multiple people, and so just kind of got

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out of hand. And I think now the market is

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telling us, hey, this doesn't work for us, And that

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goes from you know, your neighbor to the corporation down

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the street. They have budgets too, and they don't want

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to write a blank check and just say, hey, let

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me know when you're done. They want to know what

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they're getting, you know, for what they're paying.

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Again, the law firm model. I had a friend who

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became a paralegal and because you know, didn't want to

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bartend for the rest of their life, and you know,

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went through the whole thing and whatnot lasted six weeks.

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I was like, are you kidding me? I'm going to

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work sixty hours a week as a paralegal. I'm making

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what I made on a Thursday, Like, forget it. You know,

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they had this different idea of what this was going

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to become. And so I, for one applaud that you

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are looking at that solo practice and helping. How do

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you work with solo attorneys and those solopreneurs that are

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looking to work less without sacrificing the quality of their work.

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get into this profession because we ultimately want to help people.

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But the machine that we're in the traditional model very

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quickly takes that away or just makes it really hard

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to sort of have that warm heart that just wants

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to serve our community. So when I work with my

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coaching clients and fellow solos who are looking to build

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a different kind of practice, we focus on what they

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need the most. So at a coaching client recently who

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just wrapped up, she's actually transitioning from an in house role.

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She's going to go out on her own. She's got

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three kids too, right, she's a little bit later stage

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in life. They're all grown up, and now she's ready

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to have her own practice. And so we worked on

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her marketing and getting her services down and how she

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was going to price them and what problems she was

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going to solve for her target market. So it's really

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thinking about it like a business, which again they never

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teach you in law school. They just kind of throw

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you out there. And so it can be really helpful

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to learn from someone who's ten years down the road, Right,

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don't waste those ten years with all the trial and

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error like I did. So really sitting down and saying, hey,

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here's a framework that you can use. Here's an approach

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to build a business that's going to support the life

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you were looking for and not just be a business

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that runs your life. So from marketing and sales to

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thinking about services and pricing, all the way to I

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have a coaching client right now, who's I'm helping him

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with his automation. Like we get all these clients in

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this different type of practice tends to attract a lot

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of clients because they like the way that it sounds

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and it works better for them. But then how do

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you serve people in a way that's going to give

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them really quality legal services, but in a way that

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you're not working ninety hours a week Because we're trying

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to get away from that. So thinking about the systems

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and the automation within a business, really using technology and

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leveraging that to be able to be efficient in your

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practice without sacrificing that quality.

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And we're back here on Word of Mom Radio. We

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are talking of more and Lester. I love a different practice,

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I really do. And one of the things that you

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keep saying that it really resonates with me is how

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to serve better. I think that that is one of

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the things in the legal profession that has become forgotten

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is that they are there to serve their clients, not

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build their clients, not make their client's life more stressful.

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Especially in the divorcary. You are there to serve them,

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and I like that you focus on that. How do

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you help people realize, Lauren, that they can build successful

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business without sacrificing their well being, Like you said, they

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don't have to do ninety hour a week work weeks

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and things like that. How do you help them realize that.

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Yeah, I'm so glad that you brought up our service

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element because you know a lot of attorneys will put

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ESQ at the end of their name right to signify esquire.

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That's the term that we used to go by. And

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I had a law professor back in law school remind

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us was my very last class, and it was the

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perfect note that made me think of what you're referring

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to that we are in the service industry That he said,

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do you know where esquire comes from? Right back in

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the day, those were nights. Those were the people who

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were protecting members of their community, right. They were there

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to serve And I think that business has unfortunately gotten

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away from that, and we do need to bring it back.

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So solos are in such a great position because they

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have that leverage and they can be more mobile than

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maybe a bigger firm or it's going to take a

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little bit more to turn the tanker ship around. Solos

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could do it a little bit easier, but really thinking

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about the services and how we can help solve the

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client's problem. So in the divorce piece, like you've mentioned,

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it did divorce for contested divorce for a long time

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and now help people more much like you and your

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co parent, who just want to figure out how we

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can change this relationship so we can be awesome co

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parents but not have this marriage anymore. So really thinking about, Okay,

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what do those clients need, what are they looking for,

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and how can I give them that support, that guidance,

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that reassurance that yeah, you're doing it right. I know

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that these court documents are all crazy and they have

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a bunch of words on them that we don't use

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in everyday life. But you're doing this right. Your interests

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are protected. So coming to it from that space and

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thinking about those services and then offering it for a

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value based, transparent oftentimes flat fee, so the client knows

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what that is up front, and then you don't have

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to worry about a fifteen minute or three minute phone

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call to say, hey, just got a quick question. Right,

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your client and you are going to have such a

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better relationship because they're not feeling like they're on the

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clock and then I'm going to get an eighty five

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dollars bill for this three minute quick question that I had.

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So that allows you to have a lot more trust

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and serve the client better, really understand what their goals are,

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what they're afraid of, what they're trying to avoid, you know,

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what's most important to them, certainly in the divorce space

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that they have kids, Like how do they want to

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set up this new co parenting relationship while they're you know,

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spousal relationship may be ending. So you can really get

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into those details and sort of understand them more on

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a human level versus just here's the ten tasks I

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have to do to get you divorced, and focusing on

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that and being able to do the task work efficiently

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while really focusing on the human element. For me makes

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for a really profitable practice but also a really purposeful

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driven practice because I have such a great connection with

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my clients and feel like I'm really making an impact

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for them, especially during you know, sometimes really difficult times.

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Absolutely, I totally appreciate the fact that your client's well

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being and what they're going through is uppermost in your mind.

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It makes you such an anomaly as far as I'm

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concerned in most of the lawyers that I know and

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speak with throughout my life, and I would think that,

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especially in the kind of business that you have, being

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in returning and all of the negative that can happen

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being successful, you really do have to prioritize your well

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being because how can you serve your clients if you

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are so weight under by all their stresses? How do

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you work with that?

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Yeah, it's that old phrase, right, you can't pour from

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an empty cup. So I learned that pretty early on

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the hard way. I was definitely trying to do that

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and not taking care of myself as well, but that

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then just allowed me I couldn't show up in my

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practice as well. I couldn't show up as a mom

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and as a spouse as well as I wanted to.

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And so the last few years I've really focused on

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setting and keeping boundaries. So I have a pretty strict

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schedule in terms of work. I only work four days

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a week, and every morning I try and get my

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movement in, so I actually don't start work until ten

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or ten thirty in the morning, and my clients know

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that they can schedule with me at any time, but

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the window of availability is within that time that works

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for me, and so I really try and prioritize my

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mental health, my well being, my family time first. And

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I thought that that would be a deterrent for my

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clients to go, oh, well, you know, most attorneys are

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available twenty four seven. You can come on Saturday at

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ten pm and they're going to pick up which sounds

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awful to me, but that's what other attorneys would say.

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You got to be available twenty four seven for your clients.

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Actually had a client recently tell me that part of

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why she hired me was because I don't work on

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Fridays because she was a working mom, she's old or

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unfortunately just lost her husband. But she said, you know,

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I wished I would have done that. You know, I

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lost those years in those really valuable seasons with my

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kids because you just had to work, and you're a

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said you had to be there, you had to be there.

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So that really made me take a step back and think, Wow,

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this thing I thought might be a huge negative and

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I didn't really promote a lot because it was just

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important to me, but I didn't want to seem unprofessional,

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was actually something that was attracting clients. To me because

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they too understood right as a mom, as a family member,

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everything else, that we aren't just lawyers, right, we were

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very multifaceted people that they too wanted to have that

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balance in their life and recognize that in me. So

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that meant a lot.

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We talk a lot about that work life balance and

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I always joke that it's that work life juggling at

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But how had you, as a mom and a solopreneur,

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how you created that work life juggling at balance for yourself? Lauren?

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The question that I always come back to is what

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is enough? I think it makes it gets really easy,

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especially when you're a solopreneur, to keep tasting more, more

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and more, more and more, more revenue, more clients, bigger firm,

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more staff, right, just bigger, bigger, bigger. But that's always

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going to come at some cost. And so for me,

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when I feel myself kind of getting on that treadmill

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that's speeding up, I try and remind myself, like, well,

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what's enough in the business that's going to allow me

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to be a mom and to be a partner to

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my spouse and have time for my hobbies and have

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time to have movement, Because that's important to me, and

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so that's always where I start is do I have enough?

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Do I have a big, you know, fancy law firm

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and make hundreds of millions of dollars a year. People

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would make you think it sound like that's the only

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definition of success. No, but I take a walk in

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the afternoons when it's a beautiful day here in Colorado,

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and I'm with my kids every morning to wake them up,

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and we have weekend family time where I'm not distracted

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by phone calls and emails going off and having to work. So,

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you know, I just remind myself what's that trade off?

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Really stick to those boundaries and make sure that the

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first thing I put in my schedule is my time

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with my kids and my time with my partner, and

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my time for myself, and then whatever was last left

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was business time.

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I think that is a marvelous way to wrap this conversation.

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I really hope. I don't care what profession you have,

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all you momrepreneurs and solopreneurs and businesswomen out there, this

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is a model you need to think about in any business.

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Scheduling your family and your time with and then you'll

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work around that. Good for you? What would you like

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to leave our listeners with Lauren and how may they

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reach out to you that.

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You can schedule a discovery call with me if you

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are interested in learning about my coaching for solo attorneys

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at a differentpractice dot com slash call. That's a different

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practice dot com slash call. You can also connect with

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me on LinkedIn just searching for Lauren Lester should pop

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up there. I would love to connect with other moms

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and women business owners, even if you're not in the

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legal space. I think we all need that community there

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to help support each other. So connect with me on LinkedIn.

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I am going to have all of Lauren's links live,

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including her podcasts. You have a different practice podcast as well,

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so all of her links are going to be there.

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I really suggest you reach out. You know, all of

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you out there, you're building your law practices. You can

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do this. You don't have to be It doesn't have

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to be ugly. You know there's enough ugly going on

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there really is. And tell us a little about your podcasts.

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What do you share on that, Lauren.

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Yeah, it's a podcast for solo attorneys. I share really

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practical tangible tips, strategies, scripts that you can use to

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build a practice that you love where you can work less,

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earn more, and serve your clients better.

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We all know I love sharing fellow podcasters, so that's awesome.

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I love what you do. I am so thankful that

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you reached out that you are here with us on

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Word of Mom Radio, Lauren, I really am. I have

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so enjoyed listening to how you are creating that work

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life balance and a career as an attorney that can

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bring positive into a profession that people think of as

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so negative. I've got all the attorney jokes going off

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on the top of my head. You know, it's amazing

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because there's you know, you never hear a good one,

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you never hear a nice one. It's always that really tough.

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But I'm serious. You are showing that it doesn't have

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to be a room when you need to get an

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attorney involved. So again, thank you so much for the

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work you're doing. Good for you, good for your family,

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and just thanks so much for taking the time to

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come and share on one to mom radio. I really

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appreciate it.

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Warm absolutely, thank you and thank you for this wonderful

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platform and everything you're doing for supporting women business owners.

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Yeah.

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Absolutely, my pleasure and for all of you tuning in,

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thanks so much for being here. We're going to close

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out with our fabulous theme song from Smith's Sisters and

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the Sunday Drivers. So till next time, this is dor

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di Carlo saying, go out and create a marvelous youth.

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Bye for now.

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She is sure, she is sure, she is strong, she

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is strong, she is true, she is true, she is brave.

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Brave, she is she is you, she is you, she

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is you.

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Shes she is sure, she is sure, she is strong,

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she is strong, she is true, is true, she is praise,

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she is bold, she is she is you, is you,

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she is you. She is sure of herself. Yes, she

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takes care of his powerful and strong.

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Yes, she knows who she is, has integrity, woman, strong

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and true. You know her by name. See this woman

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is you.

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She is sure, she is strong, he is strong, she

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is true, is true, she is braise, she is bold,

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she is she is you, she is she is she

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is sure, she is strong, is strong, she is true,

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is true.

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She is brave, she is bold, she.

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She is you, she is she is She adds value

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and hope has proved to be brave. See it's never

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too late, Never time to behave. Reaching for dreams doesn't matter.

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The age believes in herself, unleash from her cage. She

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is sure, she is sure, she is strong, is strong,

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She is true, is true, She is brave, bray, she

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is bold, She is you, is you. She she is sure,

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She she is strong, she is strong, she is true,

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is true.

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She is braid, is brave, she is bold, she is

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She is you,
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Affordable Attorney and Business Coach for Solos

Meet Lauren Lester, a trailblazing solo attorney who's challenging the traditional law firm model. Fresh out of law school, she built a thriving practice that generates $250k+ annually while working part-time - proving that attorneys can succeed without sacrificing their wellbeing. Lauren's journey from new graduate to successful entrepreneur isn't just about profits; it's about transforming how legal services are delivered, making quality legal help more accessible while helping attorneys work less, earn more, and serve better.