058: Holly Roark of Roark Law Offices discusses setting boundaries in solo practice and getting paid what you’re worth

Holly RoarkWhat makes a Lawpreneur? Join us as Holly Roark of Holly Roark Law Offices shares her Lawpreneurial journey. Holly is a solo attorney in practice since 2004. She is licensed in both California and Idaho and has a dual practice. She is certified by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization in the area of bankruptcy, and she represents individuals and companies in all chapters of bankruptcy and related litigation. Holly’s passion is cycling, and she represents professional bike racers, bike manufacturers, and bike shops in both transactional deals and litigation. Holly is the first person in her family to go to college. She grew up poor (by American standards), and spent her youth working various jobs and studying for school so she could eventually break the cycle of poverty. It was always her dream to have her own business and be an entrepreneur. After five years at three different law firms, she finally hung her own shingle and has never looked back. Holly loves animals and people and she is a vegan.

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Fail fast to succeed faster

  • Listen as Holly sets up her journey by discussing her childhood experiences with poverty and having her family evicted from their home.
  • Holly discusses the important lesson she learned about giving away her time.

Tell us something good

  • Holly talks about getting in to UCLA and succeeding in her first two years, running out of money and having to go back home.
  • Hear how Holly discovered her entrepreneurial spirit and worked multiple jobs and businesses to get back to UCLA to finish her degree.
  • Holly talks about how a cell phone contract started her on the road to law school.

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Favorite Books:

  • The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa Dysentery, drunken soldiers, and corrupt officials provide the background for Neil Peart’s physical and spiritual cycling journey through West Africa. The drummer for the band Rush travels through African villages and relates his story through photographs, journal entries, and tales of adventure, while addressing issues such as differences in culture, psychology, and labels.

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057: Jennifer Lynn Robinson of Purposeful Networking discusses building networks and relationships

Jennifer RobinsonWhat makes a Lawpreneur? Join us as Jennifer Lynn Robinson, CEO & Founder of Purposeful Networking, shares her journey. Jennifer conducts speaking engagements and workshops for non profits, companies, conferences, and groups on networking and relationship building. She also works one on one with individuals to formulate a networking strategy that will target their ideal clients.

Jennifer is a contributing author of The Happy Law Practice, which reached #1 on Amazon in the law practice category. She has a blog and also writes for About Her magazine.

Jennifer holds certifications in Event Planning, Non-Profit Management and Conflict Resolution. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Haverford College and her law degree from Villanova School of Law.

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  • Listen as Jennifer discusses the serious brain injury that pushed her out of the courtroom and into a desk job.  Jennifer knew that continuing at her previous firm was not the right fit for her, and knew she would need to grow in to a new position.
  • Jennifer discusses missing networking the most after her move to a desk, and how that lead to her getting out of the office and on her own.

Tell us something good

  • Hear how Jennifer’s volunteering and speaking allowed her to remain active with an association that she had been a member of as corporate counsel.

Favorite Resource

  • LinkedIn Publishing Platform is a great way to get your message out to your followers.
  • scoop.it helps Lawpreneurs find relevant content to put out to their network and followers.

Favorite Book:

  • Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success  For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, luck. Today, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others. In the workplace, most people operate as either takers, matchers, or givers. Whereas takers strive to get as much as possible from others and matchers aim to trade evenly, givers are the rare breed of people who contribute to others without expecting anything in return
  • Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time  In Never Eat Alone, Ferrazzi lays out the specific steps—and inner mindset—he uses to reach out to connect with the thousands of colleagues, friends, and associates on his contacts list. And since its publication in 2005, the rise of social media and new, collaborative management styles have only made Ferrazzi’s advice more essential for anyone hoping to get ahead in business.

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056: Andrew Elowitt of New Actions, LLC discusses how lawyers can use coaches to get more clients, be more productive, and spend less time managing their practice.

Andrew ElowittWho supports a Lawpreneur? Listen in as Andrew Elowitt of New Actions shares his journey. Andrew has worn many hats during his professional career. He was a transactional attorney at a firm that grew from 7 to over 300 lawyers; General Counsel for the largest sporting goods wholesaler in the Western U.S.; and for the last twenty years, an executive coach and management consultant specializing in talent and leadership development for law firms, businesses, and corporate legal departments. He is a Fellow-Elect in the College of Law Practice Management, an International Coach Federation Professional Certified Coach, and author of The Lawyer’s Guide to Professional Coaching: Leadership, Mentoring & Effectiveness.

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Key to Success

  • Andrew reminds us to listen to our hearts.  His biggest learning came from not paying attention to the signs that his heart wasn’t in the daily practice of law.
  • Andrew shows that it isn’t the person who makes the fewest mistakes that wins, rather it is the person who corrects the mistakes most quickly that wins.
  • Andrew discusses the ever changing nature of the legal profession and how important it is to keep learning so you can be in the know.
  • Andrew points out that you can keep yourself in integrity with your clients by keeping current with your legal training and development.

Andrews Four Areas of Service

  • Executive Coaching / Professional Coaching.
  • Practice Management Consulting /Organizational Development Coaching.
  • Facilitation (Resolving contentious issues through meetings and retreats).
  • Assessment of a firm.  i.e. taking the firms temperature and looking for opportunities for improvement.

Favorite Resource

  • Leaving “white space” in your calendar, so you will have time for strategic thinking, decompressing, creativity, and marketing.

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055: Adam Ouellette of Inlighten Media, LLC, discusses why so many attorneys dislike the profession and what can be done about it.

Adam OuletteWhat supports a Lawpreneur? Listen in as Adam Ouellette of Inlighten Media Llc shares his Lawpreneurial journey.

As a new attorney 16 years ago, Adam quickly realized that the law profession was not as he envisioned it to be.  So, after many years of disdain for the profession and what it had become, he set off on a journey to shift his perception about it all.  Many thousands of books, workshops, programs and lots of introspection later, he was able to connect with his life’s purpose, which is not the day to day practice of law.  His new book provides a guide for lawyers who would like to find a way to really love what they are presently doing or to find their true calling and love outside the law.

Adam’s book “Raising the Bar” is a guidebook for any lawyer on how they can utilize the “10 Steps to Awakening”  to find more balance in their life, a quieter mind, how to connect with their intuition, and move towards a life that is ideal in all aspects.

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Fail fast to succeed faster

  • As a Real Estate Attorney in the crashing real estate market, Adam discovered the work of Gregg Braden which led him to quantum mechanics and the movie “What the Bleep Do We Know!?“.  He discovered that where your focus goes, things grow.  And, from that discovery was able to begin making connections and start growing his business again.

Tell us something good

  • Adam discusses the idea that most lawyers are good tacticians and their opportunity for growth is in learning to run a business.

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054: Kara Rudin of Kara Rudin Law Offices discusses going out on your own and not looking back.

Kara RudinWhat makes a Lawpreneur?  Listen in as Kara Rudin, of Kara Rudin Law Offices, talks to us about her journey, and what it takes to go out on your own. Kara is an estate planning attorney located in Huntington Beach, California. She assists families and individuals with their estate planning needs such as trust administration, wills and advanced healthcare directives. Realizing that each client’s goals, personal needs, and family are unique, she embraces this and creates estate planning documents by tailoring them specifically to each individual client.

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Fail fast to succeed faster

  • Kara discusses her big challenge in learning and keeping up with technology.

Tell us something good

  • Kara talks about how as a Lawpreneur and a mom, everyday working with clients is a victory.
  • Kara also discusses the power of networking and finding power partners in your network circle to improve your business.

Favorite Resource

  • 8×8 phone service. It allows Kara to transfer calls to her cell and listen to voice mails via e-mail.
  • ProVisors.  ProVisors® is a community of professionals who serve their clients as trusted advisors and share the highest standards of integrity, performance and accountability. ProVisors promotes and enables relationship building, information sharing and collaboration among its members for the benefit of their clients and one another (and you).

Favorite Books:

  • The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Book 1) Young Daniel is taken by his bookseller father to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a massive sanctuary where books are guarded from oblivion. Told to choose one book to protect, he selects The Shadow of the Wind, by Julian Carax. He soon learns it is both very valuable and very much in danger because someone is determinedly burning every copy of every book written by the obscure Carax.

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053: Jeff Roberts of The Roberts Law Firm discusses putting the personal in personal injury.

Jeff RobertsWhat makes a Lawpreneur? Join us as Jeff Roberts, The Roberts Law Firm’s founding member and current managing attorney, shares his Lawpreneurial journey.

Jeff obtained his B.A. cum laude from the University of California, Riverside, and went on to graduate with honors from the University of Miami School of Law, one of the top law schools in the nation.  After graduation, Jeff returned to Orange County where he joined a large law firm, practicing in the areas of personal injury law and business litigation. In 1998, Jeff founded The Roberts Law Firm because he desired to serve a broader range of clients and protect the rights of people victimized by corporations.

Married with two kids, he has been practicing law for 17 years,  now working exclusively with personal injury cases. He was selected as a Super Lawyer for 2014 by SuperLawyers.com.

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Fail fast to succeed faster

  • Jeff tells us how getting fired (twice) led him to become a Lawpreneur and he has never looked back.

Tell us something good

  • Jeff discusses why he became a lawyer after being bitten by a dog as a child.
  • Jeff talks about the relationships he has built with families in wrongful death cases.

Favorite Resource

  • Attorney Don Keenan’s blog for personal injury attorneys.
  • DropBox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily.  Never email yourself a file again!
  • Provisors ProVisors® is a community of professionals who serve their clients as trusted advisors and share the highest standards of integrity, performance and accountability. ProVisors promotes and enables relationship building, information sharing and collaboration among its members for the benefit of their clients and one another (and you).

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050: Lyndsay Markley of Lyndsay A Markley, Ltd. discusses being an Accidental Lawpreneur

Lyndsay MarkleyWhat makes a Lawpreneur? Listen in as Lyndsay Markley, Principal of the Law Office of Lyndsay A. Markley, Ltd, shares her journey. For her work as an advocate of victims’ rights, Ms. Markley has earned a number of accolades and awards, was acknowledged as a Top Woman Lawyer in Illinois by SuperLawyers and Chicago Magazine, and her clients’ positive reviews have earned her a “Superb Lawyer” ranking on AVVO, an attorney-referral website.

In addition to these professional acknowledgments, Ms. Markley has been interviewed in print and on-camera on several occasions relating to her work as a trial attorney. To date, Ms. Markley has tried over 25 personal injury cases to verdict in Illinois’ state and federal courts, and has obtained tens of millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements for her clients.

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Learning Moment

  • Hear how Lyndsay discovers the importance of focus.
  • Find out what part of running her Lawpreneur practice she thinks is most fun.

Tell us something good

  •  Listen as Lindsay discusses representing John Does versus United Airlines in a Sexual Misconduct case and how she  kept the case from being dismissed.

What’s on your desk?

  •  Lindsay’s current cases include a catastrophic injury case, a sexual misconduct case and a wrongful death case where a 14 year old was hit by a truck.

 Favorite Resource

  • Clio makes practice management easy with a suite of web-based tools targeted at small- to mid-sized law firms.
  • DropBox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily.  Never email yourself a file again!
  • iPad Trial Apps

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This information is coming to you to inspire you and drive you forward. Be bigger than you know yourself to be! If you haven’t already done so, please take a minute to leave a quick 5-star review rating and honest review on iTunes by clicking here. Miranda McCroskey – host of Lawpreneur Radio