Everything Except the Law - Presented by Answering Legal

Episode 62 of the "Everything Except The Law" podcast has arrived! This time we're speaking with Steve Fretzin, the President of FRETZIN, INC. This conversation was recorded live at Answering Legal's 2024 Law Firm Summer Reboot Camp. In this episode, Steve and host Nick Werker discuss the importance of being able to develop your own clients, how to create new business opportunities from past client relationships, tips for making the most of your networking time and much more! About our guest: Acting as a kind of “business development therapist,” Steve Fretzin coaches and trains lawyers the most modern-day business development skills, providing precise tips, fresh ideas and actionable tasks that drive tangible results. The host of the BE THAT LAWYER podcast, Steve has been featured in the Chicago Tribune, Crain’s and Entrepreneur.com and has appeared on NBC News and WGN Radio. He has written three books on legal business development, is a regular contributor to the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin and has published articles in Attorney at Law magazine, the National Law Review, the American Bar Association and the Illinois State Bar Association. Learn more about FRETZIN, Inc. here: https://www.fretzin.com/ Check out Steve's book "Legal Business Development Isn't Rocket Science" here: https://ow.ly/fLjB50PpkQ9 Subscribe to the Answering Legal Channel so you never miss an episode of Everything Except the Law! Check out audio versions of the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Anchor. Learn more about the show here: http://ow.ly/Eni250LekLg Interested in learning more about Answering Legal? Book an appointment to speak with us here: http://ow.ly/LSUq30sjviN You can also give us a call at 631-400-8000 or go to www.answeringlegal.com This podcast is produced and edited by Joe Galotti. You can reach Joe via email at joe@answeringlegal.com.

Episode 61 of the "Everything Except The Law" podcast has arrived! This time we're speaking with Craig Goldenfarb, the CEO & Founder of GOLDLAW. This conversation was recorded live at Answering Legal's 2024 Law Firm Summer Reboot Camp. In this episode, Craig and host Nick Werker discuss using KPIs to incentivize employees, the four most important marketing KPIs for law firms, tools and methods for tracking data and much more! About our guest: After a highly successful career as a litigator, Craig’s primary focus is building the teams that directly manage client cases, and overseeing the firm’s largest cases. He still oversees pre-suit and litigation matters that involve significant loss, such as catastrophic injury, medical malpractice and wrongful death cases. Craig Goldenfarb, an expert personal injury lawyer, is an active national speaker to community organizations, lawyers, and other legal professionals on a variety of topics concerning personal injury law, civil litigation, and the justice system. Learn more about Craig's firm here: https://www.goldlaw.com/ Learn about Craig's 7 Figure Attorney Summit here: https://www.sevenfigureattorney.com/ Subscribe to the Answering Legal Channel so you never miss an episode of Everything Except the Law! Check out audio versions of the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Anchor. Learn more about the show here: http://ow.ly/Eni250LekLg Interested in learning more about Answering Legal? Book an appointment to speak with us here: http://ow.ly/LSUq30sjviN You can also give us a call at 631-400-8000 or go to www.answeringlegal.com This podcast is produced and edited by Joe Galotti. You can reach Joe via email at joe@answeringlegal.com.

Episode 60 of the "Everything Except The Law" podcast has arrived! Jason Hennessey, the CEO at Hennessey Digital, returns for his second appearance on the show. This conversation was recorded live at Answering Legal's 2024 Law Firm Summer Reboot Camp. In this episode, Jason and host Nick Werker discuss why SEO is far from dead, how law firms can adapt to Google's AI-driven search experience, whether it's okay to utilize AI-generated content and much more! About our guest: Jason Hennessey is an entrepreneur, internationally-recognized SEO expert, author, speaker, podcast host, and business coach. Since 2001, Jason has been reverse-engineering the Google algorithm as a self-taught student and practitioner of SEO and search marketing. After presenting his SEO knowledge to a group of lawyers in 2009, Jason founded and later sold Everspark Interactive, cementing his reputation as a thought leader and authority in SEO for the legal industry. As CEO of Hennessey Digital since 2015, Jason grew a small consultancy to a $20MM+ business that made the Inc. 5000 list for the sixth year in a row in 2023. He also runs SEO industry news site iloveseo.com and hosts The Jason Hennessey Podcast. Learn more about Hennessey Digital here: https://hennessey.com/ Subscribe to the Answering Legal Channel so you never miss an episode of Everything Except the Law! Check out audio versions of the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Anchor. Learn more about the show here: http://ow.ly/Eni250LekLg Interested in learning more about Answering Legal? Book an appointment to speak with us here: http://ow.ly/LSUq30sjviN You can also give us a call at 631-400-8000 or go to www.answeringlegal.com This podcast is produced and edited by Joe Galotti. You can reach Joe via email at joe@answeringlegal.com.

Episode 59 of the "Everything Except The Law" podcast has arrived! This time we're speaking with Joan Bibelhausen from Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers (LCL) and Robin Wolpert and Tara Antonipillai from the Institute For Well-Being In Law (IWIL). In this episode, Joan, Robin, Tara and host Taryn Winter Brill discuss what the legal community has learned about well-being over the past few years, how working remotely can impact lawyer wellness, creating conditions for lawyers to do their best work and much more! About our guests: Joan Bibelhausen has served as Executive Director of Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers since 2005. She is an attorney and received her JD from the University of Minnesota Law School. Joan is nationally recognized for her work in the lawyer assistance and diversity and inclusion realms and has significant additional training in counseling, mental health and addiction, diversity, employment issues, and management. Learn more about Lawyers Concerned For Lawyers here: https://mnlcl.org/ Robin Wolpert is an appellate practitioner, business litigator, and white-collar criminal defense attorney at Sapientia Law Group in Minneapolis. Her 20-year career began in BigLaw, and she went on to serve as a prosecutor and Senior Counsel of Compliance & Business Conduct at 3M. Robin handles a diverse mix of criminal and civil lawsuits and appeals, focusing on constitutional law, defamation, business fraud, money laundering, and cyber-harassment and misinformation campaigns. Tara Antonipillai is a well-being consultant, speaker, teacher, and author. Tara combines her unique expertise as a practicing attorney and a positive psychology practitioner to help professionals, teams, and organizations thrive. Tara also helps law firms and other organizations develop and expand workplace well-being programs in a wide variety of formats. Learn more about IWIL here: https://lawyerwellbeing.net/ Explore the ABA's directory of lawyer assistance programs here: https://tinyurl.com/2ycxhxuy Check out Joan's article describing the work of lawyer's assistance programs here: https://tinyurl.com/wjsf5fed Subscribe to the Answering Legal Channel so you never miss an episode of Everything Except the Law! Check out audio versions of the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Anchor. Learn more about the show here: http://ow.ly/Eni250LekLg Interested in learning more about Answering Legal? Book an appointment to speak with us here: http://ow.ly/LSUq30sjviN You can also give us a call at 631-400-8000 or go to www.answeringlegal.com This podcast is produced and edited by Joe Galotti. You can reach Joe via email at joe@answeringlegal.com.

Episode 58 of the "Everything Except The Law" podcast has arrived! This time we're speaking with Jordan Ostroff, the Managing Partner at Driven Law and author of "Love Your Law Firm : A Roadmap to the Law Firm You Always Wanted". In this episode, Jordan and host Nick Werker discuss being intentional about what you want from your legal career, mapping out your ideal schedule, building up a strong referral network and much more! About our guest: A true Floridian, Jordan Ostroff grew up in South Florida; and graduated from The University of Central Florida and Barry University, Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law. His first “real law job” was for the State of Florida as an Assistant State Attorney. Jordan, along with his better half and fellow attorney, Heather Trick, opened up Jordan Law; a PI law firm located in Orlando, Florida in 2015. After losing a substantial amount of money on marketing agencies that didn’t understand how to market a law firm properly, Jordan buckled down, learned the basics and put into practice as he kept learning more and more. He then partnered up with some of the best marketing minds to form something totally new and different, a firm built for lawyers, by lawyers. That takes the long view to drive the most success for his fellow attorneys, and hopefully change some lives for the better. Today, Jordan has no student loans, and his firm is a successful, multi-million dollar firm. He oversees over a dozen people, and works only 3 days a week. Buy "Love Your Law Firm" here: https://tinyurl.com/ythhc5nr Connect further with Jordan here: https://www.jordanostroff.com/ Subscribe to the Answering Legal Channel so you never miss an episode of Everything Except the Law! Check out audio versions of the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Anchor. Learn more about the show here: http://ow.ly/Eni250LekLg Interested in learning more about Answering Legal? Book an appointment to speak with us here: http://ow.ly/LSUq30sjviN You can also give us a call at 631-400-8000 or go to www.answeringlegal.com This podcast is produced and edited by Joe Galotti. You can reach Joe via email at joe@answeringlegal.com.