Joshua Baron is an Attorney at SB Legal, a criminal defense practice, based in Utah.

I connected with Josh on LinkedIn a few months ago and two things instantly stood out about him. First, his friendliness and genuine interest in the people he connects with (try it for yourself and see!), and second, how upfront and honest he is about his own experience building a law practice – from starting with very little experience, competing on price and working for next to nothing, to building a practice that he and his clients love and charging premium prices for the privilege!

Like many of the people I speak with on the podcast, Josh is definitely not afraid to share where he has gone wrong in the past and the lessons he’s learnt along the way. Listen in to learn about Josh’s experience with building a criminal law practice that both he and his clients love.

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Josh Baron is a criminal defense attorney at SB Legal based in Utah. He started his criminal defense practice in 2009 after leaving a job as a city prosecutor and since then has gone on to build a business that both he and his clients love.  Josh is proactive in sharing the lessons he’s learned from building his practice, including by publishing his book, The Business of Criminal Law: How to build a practice you and your clients will love. He loves building referral relationships for SB Legal business and consulting for other attorneys to do the same.

Josh and his wife have 12 children, so of course that gets a mention in the episode too!

Find out more about Josh at SB Legal, connect with him on LinkedIn or get a copy of his book on Amazon. 

Quotes from Josh Baron

• “There’s not a cookie cutter / everybody should follow these steps, but I hope that my firm reflects my personality, my values and my interests. We need more weird law firms that reflect the practitioners values. We don’t need more identical firms, we need firms that are weird.”
• “There’s a place for all kinds of weirdness, especially in this solo, small firm practice where you can lean in to what makes you unique and attract customers and clients that are looking for that. And maybe they don’t know that they’re looking for it, they just haven’t liked what they’ve gotten from every other legal experience that they’ve had.”
• “I shouldn’t just try to achieve a generic best outcome, I should try to figure out what this client needs and then make an outcome for them.”
• “Instead of having a preconceived idea of exactly what the fee is gonna be, what the strategy’s gonna be, all that trying to fit the client into this container that I have in my mind, going into the conversation with the client and being really open and present and listening and trying to figure out what’s best for this client, helps a lot in creating the connection that leads to wanting to work together.”

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