On this episode I talk about the undesirable of letting people go. I don’t go into all the logistics of how to let people go, because one of the things that I always recommend is that you need to have an employment lawyer on your team of advisers for your law firm. 

 

Lawyers are not cheap. But here's the thing, even if you just start a relationship with an employment lawyer where they're not on retainer, per say, but they give you some initial guidance about what to do to get yourself structured and get yourself consistently implementing procedures that are going to reduce risk. It takes so much stress out of the process of making the decision to let someone go in a way that reduces risk.

 

Tune in to learn more!

 

In this episode we discuss:

• Forming a relationship with an employment attorney for peace of mind and risk reduction.
• How having to fire someone is not a personal failure.
• The different needs of a business based on its specific culture and stage of growth.
• Preparing rights and responsibilities of the termination in writing.
• The importance of being aware of the laws that pertain in your specific state.
• Hiring and firing people of a protected class.

 

Allison Bio:

 

Allison C. Williams, Esq., is Founder and Owner of the Williams Law Group, LLC, with offices in Short Hills and Freehold, New Jersey. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, is Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Matrimonial Law Attorney and is the first attorney in New Jersey to become Board-Certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy in the field of Family Law. 

 

Ms. Williams is an accomplished businesswoman. In 2017, the Williams Law Group won the LawFirm500 award, ranking 14th of the fastest growing law firms in the nation, as Ms. Williams grew the firm 581% in three years. Ms. Williams won the Silver Stevie Award for Female Entrepreneur of the Year in 2017.  In 2018, Ms. Williams was voted as NJBIZ’s Top 50 Women in Business and was designated one of the Top 25 Leading Women Entrepreneurs and Business Owners. In 2019, Ms. Williams won the Seminole 100 Award for founding one of the fastest growing companies among graduates of Florida State University.

 

In 2018, Ms. Williams created Law Firm Mentor, a business coaching service for lawyers.  She helps solo and small law firm attorneys grow their business revenues, crush chaos in business and make more money.  Through multi-day intensive business retreats, group and one-to-one coaching, and strategic planning sessions, Ms. Williams advises lawyers on all aspects of creating, sustaining and scaling a law firm business – and specifically, she teaches them the core foundational principles of marketing, sales, personnel management, communications and money management in law firms. 

 

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Snippets

 

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And I put myself through so much torture trying to hold on to someone because I cared more about the way that I was going to feel about myself when I let this person go, then I cared about what was ultimately best for my business. So I rationalized not terminating someone. And I know that I'm not alone in engaging in that behavior because I hear it from you guys all the time that you don't like to fire people. You see it as a personal failure when you have to, and as a result, you don't elect to. So the very first thing, the very first mindset strategy we're going to talk about when we talk about successful termination is that bad employees fire themselves.