Stop Hiding Behind Ethics

When I talk about ethics, I am talking about not just the existence of ethics, but the fact that lawyers hide behind their ethics as a means of staying small. We all know who those people are. There are those skeptical lawyers out there with an assumptive belief that other lawyers who are finding success are doing something wrong and inappropriate, rather than ask themselves the hard question of, if it's working for you, could it work for me too?    A lot of times lawyers hide behind their ethics and this episode is dedicated to the topic of stop hiding behind your ethics.   There are several ways that this happens, tune in now to hear them!   In this episode we discuss: How common it is for lawyers to attribute someone else’s success to unethical behavior. Just because you fail at something doesn’t mean you can’t figure it out and master it. Recognizing when ethics is used as a scapegoat for what actually is fear. How instinct is not valid for lawyers when talking about ethics. How some rules of professional conduct must be reconsidered and changed with the times.   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.    Contact Info:   Contact Law Firm Mentor: Scheduler: https://meetme.so/LawFirmMentor     Snippets   00:21:59 (47 Seconds) Because whenever we default to something not being allowed instead of asking ourselves how we get to it being permissible, how we get to the way we can do this so it is permissible, so it is ethical. When we allow ourselves to stop with a knee jerk reaction of something being an instinctual no for us. When we live in the instinctual no, we cut off the opportunities to make our lives better. We cut off the opportunities to grow as a business and as a person. We cut off the opportunities to create more economic abundance, more freedom of time, more pleasure in the work we do, to serve different and better clients in order to be better lawyers that ultimately will be better for society.