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Smart Lawyers Position to Transition — 216 episodes

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The Price Illusion: When Sellers Expect More Than the Market Will Pay

2

The Waiting Game: When Lawyers Wait Too Long to Sell

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The Growth Spike: When Fast Growth Raises Red Flags

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The Rainmaker Problem: When The Lawyer IS the Business

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The Staff Revolt: When the Team Becomes the Risk

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The Financial Mess: When the Books Don't Match the Story

7

The Identity Trap: When Lawyers Realize Their Firm is Their Entire Identity

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The Deal Killer That No One Talks About: When Your Best Month is the Worst Time to Sell Your Law Firm

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Broker Fees: Who Pays, When They Pay, and Why Deals Break

10

Be the Seller Everyone Wants: How Great Deals Get Done

11

Increasing Law Firm Value Without Working More Hours

12

Cleaning Up the Firm: What Buyers Notice in the First 30 Minutes

13

Getting Ready to Sell Your Law Firm in 2026

14

2026 Law Firm Sale Trends

15

Replay: The One Thing That Really Sells a Law Firm

16

Replay: Culture Check - Do the Pieces Fit?

17

Replay: The Most Overlooked Metric That Determines Success

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Replay: Increase the Value of Your Law Firm Using These Systems

19

From Growth to Value: What 7 Figure Law Firm Owners Must Focus on Next

20

Switching Sides: Should You Buy and Scale or Simplify and Sell

21

Five Estate Planning Firms You Could Buy Right Now

22

Selling the Solo Is So Simple: Why Buyers Should Love the One-Lawyer Firm

23

The Science of Scaling for Law Firm Owners: Creating Impossible Goals

24

How to Get Clarity Before You Get a Coach

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You Don't Need a Coach

26

Ethics in Transition: Protecting Clients and Staying Compliant When Buying or Selling a Law Firm

27

Profit or Illusion: Understanding Net Profit, EBITDA, and SDE When Selling Your Law Firm

28

The Smart Seller's Secret: Why Financing the Buyer Can Work in Your Favor

29

Is There a Season for Selling Your Law Firm?

30

After the Ink Dries: The Little Things That Make or Break a Smooth Law Firm Transition

31

Form 8594 Explained: Avoiding IRS Headaches When Selling Your Law Firm

32

More Than Money: How to Choose the Right Buyer When You Have Multiple Offers

33

What's It Really Worth to You?: Beyond the Price Tag of Selling Your Law Firm

34

The Lifecycle of a Law Firm: From Start-Up to Plateau

35

One Year After the Law Firm Sale with Joey Masiuk

36

Make it Easy: Helping Buyers Read Your P&L Fast

37

Duplicative Expenses: The Hidden Boost to Law Firm Value

38

From Sustainability to Survival with Jennifer Goddard

39

Too Many Cooks: How Outside Advisors Can Complicate—or Strengthen—Your Law Firm Sale

40

When Buyers Come in Packs: Selling to a Multi-Partner Firm

41

Two Heads, Double Trouble: Why Selling a Law Firm with Partners Isn't Twice as Easy

42

The All Cash Illusion: Why it's not a Free Pass for Sellers

43

Know When to Fold: How to Spot a Bad Buyer Before It's Too Late

44

The Missing Middle: Why Midsize Firms Are the Sweet Spot

45

Why Should I Make My Associate Sign an NDA When We Start Succession Planning?

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The Questions You Should Be Asking about High Profit Law Firms

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Wrapped in Leadership: Building Your Law Firm's Future Team

48

Getting to YES: The Right Way to Notify Clients of a Law Firm Sale

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Intellectual Propery in a Law Firm Sale: Who Owns What?

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How Law Firms Use AI to Increase Value Before They Sell

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Increase the Value of Your Law Firm Using These Systems

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Debt is Not the Enemy: Why Smart Law Firm Buyers Use Leverage

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Law Firms as an Asset Class: Why Buying a Law Firm is a Smart Investment

54

Do You Trust Yourself? A Conversation for Law Firm Buyers

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Status Quo or Scale: Clarifying Your Vision When Buying a Law Firm

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Why It's Often Harder for Women to Sell Their Law Firms than Men

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Why Your Law Firm Isn't Selling and What to Do About It

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Redefining Your Identity After Selling Your Law Firm

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How to Retain Top Talent and Avoid Chaos After a Law Firm Acquisition

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Developing a Client Retention Plan for After You Buy a Law Firm

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The Most Overlooked Metric That Determines the Success and Value of Your Law Firm

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Preparing to Sell Your Law Firm: One Year Out

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Preparing to Sell Your Law Firm: 3 Years Out

64

Preparing to Sell Your Law Firm: 5 Years Out

65

Master Marketing with John Dwyer

66

The No-Go Zone: What Stays Off the Table and Why

67

Breaking Bread: Building Bridges Over Meals

68

Culture Check: Do the Pieces Fit?

69

Law Firm Matchmaking: Do You Really Need a Broker?

70

Is the Buyer Serious?

71

Transforming Leadership from Horrible Boss to Empowered Leader

72

Compensation Culture: Boosting or Busting Your Law Firm

73

December Checklist: Positioning Your Law Firm for a Successful Sale

74

Election Worries: To Sell, Shut Down, or Relocate Your Law Firm

75

How to Determine When you have the Right Business Coach for Your Law Firm

76

The Lateral Move: Navigating Partnership Transitions in Law Firms

77

Law Firm Mergers Unpacked: A Guide to Merging, Compensation, and Broker Dynamics

78

The One Thing That Really Sells a Law Firm

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Where and How to Invest Your Sales Proceeds

80

Building a Lifestyle Law Firm Through Intake and Data

81

Life After Law® with Victoria Collier

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Building Decisive Leaders with Jack Flaherty

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How Conversion Rates affect Law Firm Valuations & Sales

84

Entreprenuer Skills for Non-Entreprenuerial Lawyers with Guest Charley Mann

85

Life After Law®: Professional Supervision with Lora McInturf

86

Building Business through Community with Guest Tyson Mutrux

87

Business Valuation: EBITDA vs. SDE

88

The Law Firm Revenue Calculator with Terrell Turner

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How To Build a Killer C-Suite with Powerhouse guest Allison Williams

90

LIFE AFTER LAW®: Using History to Create the Future of Your Dreams

91

The Entrepreneur's Real Estate Strategy

92

Letting Go: The Hardest Part of Selling a Law Firm

93

Shaping Positive Money Behavior with Guest Jonathan Blau

94

LIFE AFTER LAW®: It Starts with STYLE

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New Tax Strategies for Small Business Owners with Guest Adam Williams

96

Doing Things Differently Makes All the Difference

97

Power Up Your Practice with Guest Ruby Powers

98

LIFE AFTER LAW®: Ditch Your Soul Sucking Job

99

Technology Transforms Law Firm Growth and Value with Maya Markovich

100

WOMEN: WAKE UP!! THIS IS FOR YOU

101

Step-by-Step Actions To Grow Your Law Firm with Guest Steve Fretzin

102

Explode the Value of Your Law Firm with Digital Marketing

103

LIFE AFTER LAW®: Thriving Personally and Professionally with Sarah-Nell Walsh

104

Are Business Brokers Really Working for You?

105

Poverty Mindset: How it Creeps in and Holds You Back (and how to break free from it

106

Buying and Selling a Law Firm with the SBA Pre-Qualification Process

107

LIFE AFTER LAW®: Storytelling for Success in Life and Law With Kyla Denanyoh

108

Super Successful Solo Practitioner Tips with Lauren Lester

109

Building a Saleable Law Firm through Subscription Services with Mathew Kerbis

110

How to Be an Entrepreneur Lawyer with Josh Fitch

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LIFE AFTER LAW®: From Stress to Success with Robert Ingalls

112

When is an Offer Really and Offer?

113

Hands Off / Hands On Law Firm Management with Zaira Solano

114

Why Earnouts Suck for Everyone Involved

115

Claiming the Lawyer Lifestyle with Laura Cowan

116

Would You Rather? Celebrating 100 Episodes

117

Profiting from Podcasts with Jen Edds

118

Books for Business Success with Elise Buie

119

Partners are a Problem

120

Life After Law®: What's Next for my Career with guest Sonya Sigler

121

Timing is Everything

122

Profit First with Guest Rocky Lalvani

123

Closing the GAP and Getting the Law Firm Sold

124

Life After Law®: Systematize Your Freedom with Kristen David

125

Work the System with Guest Josh Fonger

126

When Buying a Law Firm: Know What You Want and Be Flexible

127

Making Millionaires with Guest Ken Hardison

128

Trends in Hiring Legal Staff with Wizehire

129

Doing the Hokey Pokey with Guest Jennifer Thomas Collier

130

The Value is in the Relationship with Matt Spiegel of Lawmatics

131

The SIX KEY Numbers of Law Firm Health with Brooke Lively

132

In the Perfect World: Timetable to Sell

133

No Employees = No Value with Molly McGrath

134

Increase Law Firm Value with Non-Attorney Sales Team

135

The Business of Buying and Selling Law Firms with Ed Alexander

136

The Law Firm Growth Machine with Kerri Coby White

137

Life After Law®: It's All Part of the Process! with Melanie Leonard

138

The Pacman Approach to Expanding Your Law Practice with Guest Julie Steinbacher

139

The Hot Hot List

140

Why We are Merging Law Firms with Special Guest Margaret Burke

141

Marketing Your Way to Wealth with Jennifer Goddard

142

From Being a Lawyer to Coaching Lawyers

143

Trust and Delegation with Meg Garavaglia

144

Ethical Succession Planning for Lawyers with Charity Anastasio

145

The Power of Connections with Viveca Hess

146

Balancing Life and Law with Erin Giglia

147

From Paralegal to Powerhouse with Special Guest Jennifer Gore-Cuthbert

148

No Limits with Special Guest Robert Solano

149

Buying and Building Law Firms: Which to do and When with Allen Rodriguez

150

KPIs Are the Key to Your Law Firm Success While Building and Selling with Special Guest Sachin Bakhai

151

Life After Law®: From BIG Law to NO Law with Jessica Medina

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Creating Generational Wealth Through Proper Law Firm Ownership and Management

153

Innovation Technology: The Future Law Firm with Allen Rodriguez

154

Built to Sell with Best Selling Author John Warrillow

155

Life After Law®: From One (Employer) to Many (Clients) with Joanna Wynes

156

Protecting and Selling Your Law Firm Brand with Tamara Pester

157

Getting Out While Staying in the Law with Valerie Fenchel

158

How Legal Practice Areas Impact Law Firm Valuation

159

Life After Law®: From Corporate to Ownership to Consultant with Nermin Jasani

160

Valuing a Book of Business

161

Buying a Book of Business v. Buying a Business

162

High Connections Equal High Value with Ali Katz

163

Opening the Door to New Businesses

164

Brand + Marketing = Value

165

Law Firms Using AI to Increase Value

166

Increasing the Value of Your Law Firm with Cortney Steinbacher

167

The Great Divide between the Solo / Small firm and Mid-to Large Law Firms regarding Valuations and Sales

168

Building a Legacy: Buying or Selling a Law Firm with Purpose

169

Law Firm Mergers and Acquisitions: Keeping Your Investment Secure

170

Cash is King When Selling a Law Firm

171

Successful Associate Attorney Acquisition Story with Susan Hunter

172

Diving Deeper into Due Diligence

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Subtract, Don't Add to Your Law Firm Practice Areas

174

Build or Buy: 7 Considerations for When You are Deciding to Build or Buy a Law Firm

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Buy and Thrive with Will Williford

176

Raising the Bar for Wellness with Gayle Damiano

177

Design a Life You Love with Donusia Lipinski

178

The Value of Hiring the Right Staff with Brett Trembly, Co-Founder of Get Staffed Up

179

You're the Succession Plan?

180

Should You Hold or Sell Your Law Firm During a Recession?

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The Power of Two

182

The Priorities of Business

183

Due Diligence on Buyers

184

The Good, the Bad, the Ugly - The Broker

185

Digitization of Law With Attorney Dave Zumpano and Guy Reymon

186

NDAs and Why you Must Have One

187

Non-Lawyers Owning Law Firms – WHAT? with Attorney Lynda Shely

188

What Will it Take for You to Act? Are You Living the Life You Want?

189

The Importance of Building the Right Team with Molly McGrath

190

Mass Marketing for Massive Value with Jordan Ostroff of LegalEase Marketing and Jordan Law

191

Chris White

192

Are you Ready? Really Really Ready to Sell Your Law Firm

193

Resistance When Selling or Scaling a Law Firm with Millionaire Mindset Business Coach David Neagle

194

What is a Solo to Do: Can a Sole Practitioner Sell Their Law Firm?

195

Solo by Choice: Interview with Attorney Author Carolyn Elefant

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Juggling Multiple Offers

197

You Have to Go to Know - What Happens When You Put Your Team to the Test?

198

The Law Firm Dream Team - Do You Have One and Can You Sell One?

199

Independence - What Does it Mean for You and Your Law Firm

200

Why Would You Buy a Law Firm?

201

Should You Change the Name of Your Law Firm?

202

When Valuing Your Law Firm, Do You Trust Your Gut?

203

What Do You Value? Value Billing v. Hourly Rate Billing

204

Not Enough Time? Stop Selling It!

205

Cut the Cord Already - 3 Ways to Decrease Dependency on the Owner

206

Beating The Odds Pt 2: What Can You Do to Increase the Odds of Selling Your Law Firm?

207

Beating the Odds Pt 1: What a Kentucky Derby Champion Can Teach You About Selling Your Law Firm

208

Goodwill: What Is it and Can I Sell It?

209

So Close, Yet So Far: When Your Law Firm Sale Falls Through

210

Value Versus Sellability: What's the Difference?

211

Expanding Through Acquisition with Law Firm Owner Jonathan Sparks

212

Buyers, Buyers, Buyers: Finding Your Match

213

Show Me the Money: How Much Can You Really Expect to Get for Your Law Firm

214

What are the First Steps in Selling a Law Firm

215

Is Selling a Law Firm a Real Thing?

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