Dan's Blog Posts
Attorney Dan Jaffe is the CEO of LawLytics. This is his blog.The Single Biggest Factor for a Successful Solo Law Practice
December 29, 2021 To solo or not to solo? That is the question weighing on the minds and hearts of tens of thousands of attorneys. This existential question gets amplified around the new year. And, as we begin 2022, in the midst of a seemingly interminable pandemic...
A Conversation With Jazz Hampton, Attorney and CEO of Turnsignl
Jazz walked away from his big firm job where he was the Director of Diversity and Inclusion, and also gave up a law school professorship for the uncertainty of founding a legal tech startup along with two friends. The idea for Turnsignl came out of their desire to help solve the problem of racial targeting, police abuse and violence in law enforcement traffic stops. They soon discovered that there is a much broader application of their technology, which puts a live lawyer in the passenger seat during traffic stops.
A Conversation With Jared Vishney – CEO of Arctrieval – Medical Records Retrieval For Personal Injury Lawyers
In this episode of the LawLytics Video Podcast, I sit down with Jared Vishney to talk about a huge logistical problem that plagues personal injury law firms, slows intake and matter progression, and often times leads to expectation management issues. The problem is...
A Conversation With Chris Mullins – Phone Sales Doctor For Law Firms
In this episode of the LawLytics Video Podcast, I sit down with Chris Mullins to talk about intake and sales for law firms. We dive into the emotional, psychological and managerial factors that can affect the performance and mental health of law firm intake...
Your Law Firm’s Most Important Marketing Metric – Quality Of Leads
For attorneys, the quality of leads that they get from their marketing is the most important thing, bar none.
A Conversation With Brooke Lively, MBA, CFA, Author of From Panic To Profit
In this episode of the LawLytics Video Podcast, I sit down with Brooke Lively to talk about the numbers that really matter for attorneys who want to escape the chaos and panic of owning and running a law firm and move to predictable revenue, expenses and profits.
To Position Your Law Firm Effectively, Think Like Your Clients
Today I recorded a brief video blog post about positing your law firm in your clients minds. I hope you enjoy, and please let me know what you think.
June and July 2021 SEO Updates: Hype vs. Reality
I’m here to tell you that I have never once seen attorneys (who follow Google Webmaster Guidelines and that have the proper infrastructure to their site) suffer from a Google algorithm update. It just doesn’t happen if you’re doing the fundamentals.
A Conversation With Dan Lear from Gravity Legal Payments
Yesterday, I sat down with Attorney Dan Lear of Gravity Legal, a payment solutions provider for law firms. Our conversation mostly focused on legal payments and legal tech — past, present, and future. I really enjoyed this conversation with Dan, and I hope that you will, too.
June 2021 – Why Attorneys Should Not Be Concerned About The Latest Google Update
It’s that time again where Google is rolling out updates. For LawLytics members this is a good thing, as I explain in the video.
Attorneys Will Need Tech to Pivot Faster in a Post-COVID World
In this video blog post, I talk about how LawLytics members used the platform to pivot quickly during COVID, and how technology that empowers small firms and solos to pivot on a dime will be even more important in the tech-accelerated, post-COVID world.
A Quick, Easy Content Creation Idea For Lawyers
In this video blog post I share a quick and easy way that attorneys can use video, talk about what they already know and talk with clients about regularly, and create content that is more effective than any content that a marketing agency could create for them in short order.
Using Your Law Firm’s Website for Client Expectation Management
5.24.2021 – I recorded this short video blog post about using your law firm’s website to help you deliver and enforce expectation management at scale. It’s something that will make your life as a solo practitioner or small law firm owner easier — and your clients will appreciate it, too.
A Conversation with Larry Bodine – Attorney, Journalist, Editor and Legal Marketing Pioneer
I sat down for a conversation with Larry Bodine, who recently retired after a career that started in print journalism in the 1970s and wove its way through law practice, and legal journalism, including stints where he served as Editor at the ABA Journal and of Lawyers.com when it was owned by LexisNexis.
A Conversation With Dan Johnson, Co-Founder of Jurorsearch
On May 21, 2021 I sat down for a conversation with Attorney Dan Johnson, Co-Founder of Jurorsearch, which is a legal technology startup taking on the massive problem of jury trials. Specifically, they are working on software that makes voir dire easier and more effective for trial lawyers, jury consultants, judges and jurors.
How Your Law Firm’s Website Can Be Sold As An Asset When You’re Done Practicing Law
If you’re an attorney looking to build value that you can harvest, and assets that another attorney will be grateful to own, when it’s time to retire or otherwise move on from the daily practice of law, I hope that this video blog post helps spark ideas about how you can use your firm’s website to simultaneously create revenue for your practice today, and build transferrable equity to you or your family can harvest down the road.
A Conversation With Emily LaRusch, Founder and CEO of Back Office Betties
Yesterday afternoon I sat down for a conversation with Emily LaRusch, CEO of Back Office Betties. Our conversation ranges from Emily’s origin story, where she tried to help her brother secure a divorce attorney and experienced the wrong (and unfortunately all-too-common) way that some small law firms answer their phones and treat potential clients. We talk about her unique branding, remote culture (which she was doing well before Covid), leadership styles, and even delve into The Secret, Think And Grow Rich, and meditation. We also talk about intake technologies including Clio Grow and Acuity.
When Law Firms Benefit From Multiple Websites
Why do some law firms have or need multiple websites instead of just one. In this video blog post, I answer that question. For most small firms, a single website is all they will will ever need.
The Mindset For Starting A Solo Law Practice
In this video blog post I talk about the conversations that I have frequently had with lawyers who are thinking about starting their own law firms. These conversations happen with lawyers with a wide range of experience, from just out of law school, to leaving medium to large firms, or government employment one, two or even three decades into their legal careers.
Hiring My Fiancée – Part V – Hiring My Law Firm’s First Employees
Today I’m concluding my story about hiring my first law firm employees with the final part of this chapter… hiring my fiancée. Before I talk about why having my fiancée work for me didn’t work out, here’s how I skillfully deployed impulsive thinking disguised as genius to justify the hire.