LawHer

Melissa Lamore is the Senior Vice President of Communications at Velawcity, a legal advertising network. Her superpower lies in building relationships that are deep-seated and wide-reaching. For Melissa, the lines between personal and professional are blurred. When she battled breast cancer, much of her support network came from the legal industry. As a result, her rapidly expanding network naturally led to co-founding The League with Carson Bayer.

Melissa explains how leaning into your vulnerability can help build an authentic community. And why complimentary values can be just as important as shared ones. How The League is elevating the 'whole woman' and how the simple action of journaling daily can help unlock your future.

Stephanie Forbes has seen - and improved - the inner workings of some of the most successful firms in the nation. The COO turned consultant is on a mission to help growing firms replicate their success. Owner of Forbes Consult, Stephanie helps Personal Injury Law Firms capitalize on maximum results by teaching swift, quality case management, and elite customer service.

Today, we discuss how systems can make firms of any size run more efficiently and reap larger margins. We cover when and how to train new hires. And she reveals how to get the maximum recovery through proper case management.

You can spend all the money in the world on marketing - but if your intake team is not dialed in, your marketing budget has gone to waste. Associate and intake manager at West Coast Trial Lawyers, Liana Khachatryan oversees 15 offices and intake teams across California. One of the most successful personal injury and employment firms, the team consists of over 100 staff and 20 attorneys.

Today, we discuss finding the practice area that best suits your lifestyle, how to vet calls and accepting the cases that fit with the business model. And she explains how doing it messy and figuring it out along the way is often the best policy.

When all you have is the calling - helping people is enough. Hillary Walsh, owner of New Frontier Immigration Law, began her immigration law firm with few resources. In the early days, she pretended to be her own receptionist and would drive over three hours to avoid a twenty-dollar filing fee. Four years later her firm has grown to over 90 employees and she helps hundreds of families through the immigration process.

Today, we discuss how she learned the ropes of immigration law while in Korea - before the remote work revolution. We go over the tools and policies she uses to maintain culture with a fully remote team. We also get into how women can align work with menstrual cycles to unlock their superpowers and be more productive in the process.

As an immigration and personal injury attorney, Keren Barrios clients trust her firm with their lives. She loves making an impact on her community and fulfills the promise she made to herself to help change and improve the lives of others.

Over the past decade, the managing and founding partner of Barrios & Virguez has grown her firm to over 30 staff members and has helped countless families in Georgia. Keren shares how she sees her double minority status as a woman and Latina as an advantage and how she's healing from extreme trauma. We discussed working through the mess to find yourself and growing a wildly successful firm in the process.

In 1692 witchcraft was an indisputable fact of life in Massachusetts. Those accused faced felony charges. The Salem Witch Trials were the result of a rational worldview shared by well-reasoned people who saw witchcraft as the devil incarnate and a threat to daily life. But how did they get there? What can we learn from the trials about access to power and how social dynamics shape legal systems?

Here to help answer all of these questions is New York Times Best Selling and award-winning writer of historical fiction, Katherine Howe. She edited The Penguin Book of Witches for Penguin Classics and authored The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane - a historical fiction novel that travels between witch trials of the 1690s and modern life. She has also collaborated with Anderson Cooper on not one, but two books.

Renata Musial, an attorney turned coach, teaches female attorneys how to go after their happiness - unapologetically. The owner of The Happy Lawyer Project spent years struggling to find happiness in her career despite ticking standard boxes guaranteed to bring joy. After an Adult ADHD diagnosis and realizing the power of the stories we tell ourselves, Renata mentors female attorneys to help them feel as good in life as they look on paper. Today, we get into how mindset and accountability work together to transform lives. We dive into limiting beliefs and the importance of following your own compass.

What's in This Episode?

Bibi Fell is one of the strongest trial lawyers in the country. And her firm, Fell Law is consistently recognized as the top in the legal field by the Daily Journal, Lawdragon Leading Plaintiff Lawyer, The National Trial Lawyers: Top 100, and Superlawyers. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of San Diego School of Law who has recovered millions for her clients. She is also a Partner at the nationally renowned female-lead Athea Trial Lawyers. We discuss what can be done to help close the gender gap in the legal field and why being yourself is a superpower. We also get into what it takes to build a kickass group of female trial lawyers.

As the saying goes - if you're not growing, you're dying. But what goes into successfully growing a firm? Today, Ashton Bremer offers her marketing expertise and explains why to grow your firm you need more than a Facebook page. The driving force behind the explosive growth of Stewart Guss Injury Accident Lawyers, Ashton commands a marketing department that spans four states and nine locations. We break down where to start if your marketing budget is limited, why intake is just as important as marketing, websites that convert, and what marketing channels will give you the best ROI.

Sparks Law opened its doors in April of 2022. Today we dive into what it is like to open a practice - from a woman who is living the experience. Samantha Sparks is managing partner at the Missouri based firm and wears two (of many) hats. The personal injury cases and consumer protection attorney also manages the firm. Today we discuss how to wade through the uncertainty when starting a firm, jumping in with both feet and the strength in asking for help.