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About Jane Muir
In this episode, Kevin Daisey interviews Jane Muir, a successful business lawyer from Miami, Florida. They discuss Jane’s journey from starting her law firm during the subprime mortgage crisis to becoming a prominent figure in the legal community. Jane shares her insights on the importance of business acumen in law, the use of SWOT analysis for strategic planning, and the entrepreneurial mindset necessary for growth. The conversation emphasizes the significance of leadership, community engagement, and the continuous pursuit of improvement in the legal profession.
Takeaways:
- Jane Muir emphasizes the importance of business acumen in law.
- SWOT analysis helped Jane identify her strengths and opportunities.
- Building a law firm requires both legal expertise and business skills.
- Community engagement is crucial for networking and client acquisition.
- Data-driven decision-making is essential for law firm success.
- The entrepreneurial mindset is characterized by optimism and resilience.
- Leadership roles in organizations can enhance professional growth.
- Continuous learning and adaptation are key to staying relevant in law.
- Networking and building relationships are vital for business development.
- Celebrating small wins is important, but the focus should remain on growth.
Episode Transcript:
Kevin Daisey (00:31)
What is going on, Podcast Land? Welcome everyone to another episode and thank you so much for joining me and listening to this show. We’d love to dive in and help everyone listening, just run their business better, serve more people. And it’s all about law firm management, law firm business, and always look for the best folks to bring on the show. And I have a great guest today, Jane Muir out of Florida.
We met at MaxLawCon and MaxLawCon, I guess, was on a break for a few years. They just came back this year. It was an awesome event. And Jane was the MC at the event. So she was running around on stage introducing people, but herself owns a law firm, very successful law firm down in Florida. And wanted to have her on the show to talk about what she’s done.
The good, the bad, the ugly. Well, it’s been successful and share that with you all today. So, Jane, welcome to the show.
Jane Muir (01:26)
Thanks so much for having me, Kevin.
Kevin Daisey (01:28)
Yeah. Excited to have you on. And, uh, you know, at the MaxLawCon she was high energy running around, uh, telling us to be quiet. If we were talking, you know, she was handling the whole, the whole event very well. So, uh, and, know, I didn’t know her at the time. So, uh, we probably got to chat briefly when, when we were there. So, uh, but that’s the, the curse of the MC, right? They have to, they have to take care of business. So she did a good job. So if you’re looking for an MC, she could be your person.
So Jane, tell us about your law firm a little bit at a base level, and we’re going to dive deeper into, you know, kind of your whole story and kind of how you got to where you’re at and what’s worked well for you.
Jane Muir (02:06)
Well, thank you so much for having me again. And I’m honored by your compliment. I did my best to keep everybody in line at the MaxLawCon. And I’m looking forward to doing it again next year in Atlanta. So, anyone who’s starting a law firm, Maximum Lawyer and MaxLawCon are such a great resource. I really feel like my firm took off after I joined Maximum Lawyer and The Guild
Kevin Daisey (02:18)
Excellent.
Jane Muir (02:33)
because I really learned from them so much about what you have to measure and what you have to keep track of so that you can improve and grow. My whole story, my firm, what it does currently is we are a business law firm. We have five lawyers and we’re located in Miami, Florida and practice throughout the state of Florida.
How I started was a little bit less glamorous. I was let go from my first position as a lawyer. And I’d done every job in a law firm from file clerk to secretary, receptionist, paralegal. And then I’d been an associate, but only kind of briefly. And it was the subprime mortgage crisis. I came out of law school in 2009.
So the economy wasn’t doing so well. And my partner from law school, my trial partner, had also been let go from his firm in California. And so we thought, we’ll just start a firm and see how it goes. And that wasn’t really my first choice, to be honest. I had other jobs that I was interested in. Like, I would have loved to go to the public defender,
Kevin Daisey (03:36)
Hmm.
Jane Muir (03:45)
or there was a federal clerkship that I had been offered and declined because to be honest, I would rather watch paint dry than sit in a library and write all day. I’m kind of a people person. I like to talk. I like to interact. And I had done judicial internships with several judges. And I could do the work, but it was not a pleasure to do. It was like a grind for me.
That wasn’t available anymore anyway, because the guy who had taken the position wanted to renew. So I kind of didn’t have an option. And one of my mentors in the legal community said, Jane, why don’t you just start a firm? You could do it. And all you have to do is get an office in a shared space and try every case that people can’t settle. And the next thing you know, you’re a big time trial lawyer and that’s how it works. Easy peasy.
Kevin Daisey (04:36)
Easy peasy.
Jane Muir (04:39)
And I was like, well, I don’t know. Maybe if Tom Gamba thinks I can do it, I could do it. And so I read the book by Jay Foonberg, which is How to Start and Build a Law Practice, which is a fantastic book. I recommend it to everybody starting a firm. And I pretty much looked at people in the legal community who I admired and
Kevin Daisey (04:59)
Nice.
Jane Muir (05:08)
saw what they had done and I thought, how do I make myself like that? Because there’s a recipe for everything and it’s in a book, right? So it’s true. You want to build a carburetor or bake a cake or anything at all under the sun, you just read a book about it and boom, you can do it. So that was my belief and approach. And so I
Kevin Daisey (05:19)
I love that. You’re so, so true.
Jane Muir (05:35)
I read that book and we got business cards. In our first month, we made $350. I â spent $100 on a virtual office. And what else did I buy? I think the rest of the money we spent on business cards, but we did throw a big party and we invited like 200 people to show everybody that we were in business. And we really didn’t earn very much
Kevin Daisey (05:41)
Nice.
Jane Muir (06:01)
in revenue. It was under $10,000 a month. But to be honest, I was focused mostly on emulating the people that I really admire. Like the person that I was emulating was a guy named Ervin Gonzalez. And he sadly passed away. But he had written an article
that said, these are the 10 things that you need to do to become preeminent in your field. Or actually, it wasn’t even him. It was his wife, Janice Gonzalez. And she does public relations. so I was reading her blog because I figured she must be helping him with his career. And these 10 things, I just thought, wow, that’s the recipe right there. I can follow this. And so the 10 things are, make a logo.
make business cards, make a website, go to events, talk about what you do, follow up with the people who you meet, speak, write, get board certified in your discipline, and become a leader in a local organization. So I thought, that’s 10 steps I could follow. I played rugby when I was in college and law school.
And one of my teammates was a graphic designer. So she made us a beautiful logo with the Dade County Courthouse, the antique historic Dade County Courthouse. And we made very cool business cards that were like frosted plastic. So they looked like glass. My partner, Alan Grinberg, would drop business cards in the trays at the security at the courthouse so that people would pick them up and think, this is a cool lawyer. I want to call them.
And we sort of just did guerrilla marketing, stuff like that. But unfortunately, after a year or so of working together, we had not cracked the business of law code. So Alan was given the opportunity to join the public defender’s office and he went forward with that. And we parted ways on great terms. And he now has his own firm doing criminal defense and he’s very successful.
Kevin Daisey (07:50)
Hmm. Hmm.
That’s excellent.
Jane Muir (08:05)
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but I ended up partnering with a second lawyer, Adam Gersten and we were partners for seven years, but during that time, he had built a bar in Miami’s Wynwood district called Gramps, which is very successful. And he built another and another and another. So now he has something like six or seven different restaurant bars that are, they’re great
Kevin Daisey (08:27)
wow.
Jane Muir (08:29)
places to hang out and so he doesn’t practice anymore. But finally I ended up being J. Muir and Associates, which is the current iteration of the firm. And along the way I really focused on becoming a really good lawyer and learning the practice. And I feel like being a part of the bar associations was a tremendous
Kevin Daisey (08:36)
You
Jane Muir (08:54)
asset for me because I would put on these CLE programs and as a baby lawyer I would learn the cutting edge information about new laws or new areas of law like cannabis or cyber security or all kinds of areas of practice that just were invented. And that way I was on an even playing field with the
Kevin Daisey (09:12)
Yeah.
Jane Muir (09:20)
experienced attorneys.
Kevin Daisey (09:22)
No, that’s awesome. That’s great. So you’re up to speed on what’s the new things that the experienced lawyers also, it’s new to them too, right? So that’s great. So you focus a lot on being a better lawyer. You did follow some steps, which I love that list of 10. Yes some are basic, but it’s like, it makes it easy. Something to follow. Do these things. Being part of a local board has been
Jane Muir (09:31)
Exactly.
Kevin Daisey (09:48)
One of cool, the best things I’ve ever done when I was building my firm for marketing, it’s just being involved in the community. But, but I remember when me and you were chatting backstage, it’s like you wish you kind of spent more time and effort on the business of law and running the practice.
Jane Muir (10:02)
Absolutely.
Absolutely. It is a completely different discipline to be a good attorney, technically, at your craft, and to be a good business leader and owner. And that’s what I learned, really, from the Maximum Lawyer Group, things like key performance indicators. Like, I had never heard of that before.
and average case value and all that kind of thing. I did have a dear friend, my friend Steve Schlackman, who’s now the chief innovation officer for a startup called Orangegenius (now Artrepreneur). I asked him to help me improve my marketing because he had an MBA and he’d had a marketing firm before he went to law school and he’s a very smart business person.
And I said, Steve, know, can you help me figure out how I can get more clients? And he said, sure, what kind of clients are you looking for? And I just didn’t have an answer for that. I said, I don’t know, the kind that pay you for the work that do. they, right, right. So he said, well, have you done a SWOT analysis? And I said, what’s that, Steve? So.
Kevin Daisey (11:06)
Yeah, yeah.
They have a pulse and some money.
Mmm.
Jane Muir (11:18)
SWOT, I always tell people who are starting their practices about SWOT analysis because it really helped me crystallize the direction I needed to go in as a firm. And what you do is you draw an X and Y axis, a line going up and down and a line crossing it from left to right.
Kevin Daisey (11:37)
So basically like four boxes, if you will.
Jane Muir (11:39)
Right, exactly. And then on the left side of the line going from left to right, you write S and on the right side you write W. So strengths, weaknesses. And then on the up and down axis, you write opportunities, threats. So the upper left box is your strengths and opportunities area.
And the upper right box is the strengths but threats area. And then the lower left box is the weaknesses. Sorry, did I do it The threats and strengths. I think I screwed that up. I wish I had a whiteboard I could show you. But you get my… Yeah, exactly. but I wouldn’t know how to draw this on my… I don’t have like an Apple pencil or anything like that.
Kevin Daisey (12:11)
Yeah. Weaknesses, opportunities. I’ll have to share the screen next time.
Jane Muir (12:26)
So in any case, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats. And so he said, how good are you at the thing that you’re trying to do? Which at that time, I was trying to be a personal injury attorney. So on a scale of 1 to 10, I gave myself like a 4, because I’m smart. I’m hardworking. I’m all organized. I’m very organized. I’m good with technology. But I’m also two-year lawyer. So I was.
conscious of that. I was conscious of the fact I didn’t have a war chest. But know, the PI firms, they need to have money to pay for transcripts and experts and medical records. And the world knows that we attorneys are kind of a gold mine for expenses. So they love charging us the maximum, right? So I gave myself a four in the strengths weaknesses area.
And then opportunities on a scale of 1 to 10, I gave it like a 2 because I think there are hardly any major injuries that happen, catastrophic injuries or wrongful deaths. And since I’m a newcomer and I don’t have a war chest, I’m probably not the right person for this kind of matter, which would be the ideal matter. So in that SWOT analysis, I turned out
All my data was in this sort of weakness and threat area. Because the weaknesses, if you measure those on a scale one to 10, no war chest, no team, no expert list of people I’ve worked with. That’s kind of innate. And the threats I’ve got to compete with Morgan & Morgan, 411 Pain the local firms in my area that are preeminent in personal injury like The Haggard Law Firm or Colson Hicks or â
Kevin Daisey (14:09)
There’s
a ton.
Jane Muir (14:10)
any
of these like a lot of threats. So that was like eight, nine, 10. So all the data ended up in that weakness threat quadrant. And so I was really disappointed to see that this thing that I’ve been pursuing because my first job was in that area was just not, not really advisable for me. And so said, well, gee, now what do I do, Steve? And he says, well, what are your best clients like?
And my partner at the time, Adam, his family was allowing us to use their office in the Upper East Side of Miami, which is very close to that Wynwood Art District. During the late 2000s and teens, that was a real hotbed for startups. And they had like a co-working space called the lab.
There was a startup that hosted a waffle Wednesday program where they’d have speakers come in, Refresh Miami, which is a meetup group for people who are coders and startup type people would meet and win would. So it was really interesting. I was getting all these young entrepreneurs calling me up for legal advice and
I had done something unusual for a lawyer, which is I made myself a page on Yelp. And at that time, Yelp was just for restaurants, really. But I had the best reviews on Yelp. And when Siri was invented, I don’t know if you remember when Siri came out, it was like 2010, 11, 12, maybe. They took the data from Yelp. So if you said, hey Siri, find me a lawyer.
Kevin Daisey (15:25)
Ha
Jane Muir (15:45)
they would say, call, you know, Gerstin Muir. That’s my, that was my firm at the time because I was connected through Yelp and it was so cool. It was my party trick. would say, Hey Siri, find me a lawyer. And they’d say Gerstin Muir. It was really cool. So I tell Steve about this. These entrepreneurs were great for me because they’re smart and they’re organized. And I found it to be really easy to communicate with them because
Kevin Daisey (15:50)
wow.
Jane Muir (16:10)
I can speak to an engineer and explain why I think what I think and they’re satisfied, which is something that I’m proud of because engineers are very discerning types, you know? So in any case, we did the SWOT analysis for these small businesses and entrepreneurs. And in that area, I had started the business. I knew all the things you had to do. You have to incorporate, you have to get a tax ID number.
You have to get your permits, your licenses. I had learned all this from doing it for myself. And he said, this looks like where you need to be. Because the strengths and opportunities were stronger. Like my data was all in that quadrant. And there weren’t so many threats. Not a lot of lawyers were focused on that area of practice. So that’s how I ended up as a business lawyer.
Kevin Daisey (16:55)
Love that.
So SWOT analysis is a great tool for sure to go through this process, right? And this could be done, I mean, you can use the SWOT analysis for a lot of different areas, not just choosing where you’re best to focus your whole law firm, but you can break it down to other areas like, I think, like hiring or different practice areas within your law firm or whatever, like, hey, what are we good at?
Where is the opportunities at? And then what’s the major threats? What could do rail this whole initiative? And this might just be goals or initiatives throughout your quarter or your month. Do a SWOT analysis on those and say, what’s the likelihood that this is a good goal to focus on? What’s the data tell us?
Jane Muir (18:20)
Exactly. And that’s really a key lesson that I’ve learned becoming more of a managing partner and business person is that the data is essential. like, it’s good to be self aware. We all want to be conscious of the realities that we are facing so that we can always grow and improve. But the data, that’s where you find that truth. know, data doesn’t lie.
Numbers don’t lie. You’ve got to, you know, maybe you have a practice area that you love to do, but if you count the hours that it takes compared to the revenue it generates and you’re just not doing it efficiently enough or the clients don’t want to pay what you’re asking or, you know, there could be whatever weakness you’ve got to be attentive to that reality.
Kevin Daisey (19:11)
Yeah, I actually, real quick story. had a client that was a criminal defense client, law firm up in the Midwest area. And they just had a lot of you know, struggles and some downturns and, you know, their SEO. Some things just took a dive and kind of, kind of damaged the business a little bit. Had a lot of drop in revenue. And
They came to me to say, hey, we need help, but we think we just need to kill out all this stuff and start over and we just want to go maybe into business law. And so as I was talking with them and looking at stuff, like, well, okay, well, where does all your revenue come from? Well, it’s all criminal defense. What are you known for? criminal defense. What’s all your reviews say? You know, mostly about criminal defense cases and things that we’ve done. Okay. Why do you want to go into business law?
Well, we just feel like we can’t recover. And so we’re just going to like change gears. And it’s like, I don’t think so. Like that’s a bad idea. And again, they’ve been doing this for years and years. They were just looking for an out and in this shiny object, I think as entrepreneurs too, it’s like, I’d rather go do this over there, but it might kill your business. And so I think stepping back to be like, is that really a good idea? And what are all the threats and issues that’ll come out of doing that?
But taking time to do that would would have been helpful for this person to do. Because as entrepreneurs we also kind of like look at this over there look at this over there And it can distract and damage kind of what we’ve built already, too. So
Jane Muir (20:43)
thousand percent. And what I notice about entrepreneur types is that they tend to be very optimistic. just, they have a kind of inner excitement and light that makes them very attractive, very interesting. They’re passionate. They’re, they’re persuasive, but sometimes it’s borderline delusional.
Kevin Daisey (20:51)
You
Jane Muir (21:07)
And I mean, I consider myself to be like that because like, I was definitely deluded to think that out of law school, I could just, you know, start a firm and then be okay. And it was not okay for a very long time. And I made a lot of mistakes and couldn’t do simple things like get invoices out every month.
Kevin Daisey (21:10)
I suffer from this for sure.
Jane Muir (21:33)
That was one of my greatest achievements is like getting invoices out every month without fail. Cause I would, I have this strong belief in the fiduciary duty. You know, I’m, I’m a sixth generation lawyer.
Kevin Daisey (21:34)
Here needs to be paid.
wow, that’s excellent.
Jane Muir (21:50)
And my mother was a judge and my father. I know I was so I’m like this, I’m a modern day night and shining armor. I swore an oath to protect my clients and their interests have to come first. And it’s like being a samurai, you know, you have to commit harakiri if you don’t dishonor your, your Lord. Right. And so I would focus on the work and only the work.
Kevin Daisey (21:52)
You can’t mess up.
You
Jane Muir (22:16)
And then I would just run out of money. So one day I would wake up and like one example was I had a payroll of about $2,500 for a two week period, which is like very reasonable payroll.
Kevin Daisey (22:31)
Yeah,
I would like not want to look at mine right now, but yeah.
Jane Muir (22:34)
I know,
now it’s like 70 plus for us, â we’re, I was looking at the payroll and I had to make $2,500, but I had $17 in the account. And I was like, I have to make payroll by Thursday. How am I going to do this? So I had to bang out a bunch of invoices, call up the clients, ask them to please send us payment promptly.
Kevin Daisey (22:37)
you
man
Jane Muir (22:58)
It was just terrible.
Kevin Daisey (23:00)
Yeah, well, think, you know, it’s that’s kind of a superpower of entrepreneurs, right? Is that we are optimistic. We were ready to go and people follow us to some degree. Like, they look now. I believe them. but then there’s the dark side of that, which is, you know, if it doesn’t work out, which a lot of times it might not, we, we’re still hopeful and optimistic, even though shits burning down around us.
Jane Muir (23:23)
Right? And it is like a muscle. Like when I first started, I tell people this when they’re feeling blue. I’m like, when I started my firm, I would cry out of stress and anxiety probably three times a week. And I would just curl up in a ball, like on the sofa. I have no idea what I’m doing. I have no idea what I’m gonna do next.
Kevin Daisey (23:24)
So yeah.
Jane Muir (23:48)
And I would say, Jane, you can watch one episode of Sex and the City, just 30 minutes, and then you’re gonna have to attack this problem. And I would just like force myself to sit there and grind the problem out until it was over. But the muscle gets stronger. So, after a while, I’d say it was about six months, and I was only crying once a week, or once a month, or once a quarter.
And now nothing fazes me. Like I am ice cold. It’s just like things can burn to the ground and I’m like, how are we going to fix it? What are we going to do? Everything’s cool.
Kevin Daisey (24:18)
you
You get the marshmallows out and you’re like, yeah.
That’s awesome. Yeah, it does, you
You know, I always think back like, how could I have gone faster or skipped or had a shortcut or whatever, but it takes the lessons and the failures to get to where you’re at and to build up to where you are. You can’t skip all that. Well, you can’t read a book and be like, got it done. Perfect. know, because you won’t respect it. You know, it’s just, you have to have the tough moments, I think, to really learn. So.
Jane Muir (24:43)
Yes.
Kevin Daisey (24:56)
I love it. I love your story. I love everything about it. Talking about, know, a of things resonate, that’s for sure.
Jane Muir (25:02)
You got like,
yeah. And that’s the thing. Like a lot of people when they’re starting a business, they like to talk about the success and like, ultimately, I’m glad to say I have reached a point where I’m feeling more successful. But every benchmark, there’s like somebody I know says new level, new devil.
And like I have this goal, I want to get a million in revenue and I, and now I’ve hit it and I keep hitting it, but now I want to hit five or 10. And I know people who are doing it, who are younger than I am. And I’m like, I gotta get there. Cause I’m competitive.
Kevin Daisey (25:35)
Yeah. Yeah.
Well, it’s I do I say the same thing all the time different a different way of saying it but You celebrate the win like I heard this from someone the other day it’s like Like a high school football coach basically said this to them celebrate the win but only today and then it’s back to it again, right so it’s And that’s gonna how my mindset is now, right? It’s like and friends or family around me. It’s like
Slow down, stop, like you’re good. And they just don’t get it.
Jane Muir (26:08)
When I just think,
why don’t you, why do you work so hard? You’ve already made it. No, you never make it. It’s grow or die, grow or die.
Kevin Daisey (26:14)
Never make it.
It’s the journey, right? So yeah, it’s like,
I always say like, you know, if you climbed a mountain top and then you look and you’re like, crap, there’s a taller mountain over there. And you just want to know what that’s like. And so it’s all through my, you know, entrepreneurship career. It’s like mentors. So like, Kevin, we’re in a million. Don’t worry. You’ll be there soon. And I’m like, that’s impossible. And then it’s like, you know, he had a million. It’s like, okay, well, what about the next thing? And our goal is a hundred million. So.
And that’s a goal doesn’t mean we stop there, we’re about, we’re close to eight figures right now. But when we hit that, that’ll be major. But if you look at 100 million, that’s still 10 % of the way there.
Jane Muir (26:54)
Yeah,
100 million for a law firm. means probably a hundred million dollar lawyers, right?
Kevin Daisey (27:05)
Yeah,
yeah, it’s hard to kind of wrap your head around.
Jane Muir (27:08)
And like, boy, I have a wonderful team who I adore. And a lot of them are my friends. Like my office manager is my dear friend, rugby teammate introduced me to my husband. â My latest hire is my trial teammate from law school. And we’ve been friends 20 plus years.
Kevin Daisey (27:22)
awesome.
Jane Muir (27:33)
And I try to hire people I want to work with through a like, who like share my values and my sort of attitude mindset, to use your word. Like we tend to be athletes, musicians, people who are interested in practicing a discipline, like understand that you don’t start at, you know, A plus level. You have to start at the bottom and grind and work and get there.
Kevin Daisey (27:46)
What the?
cultures, everything. So you’re a good team and people, that’s what’s gonna help you get to the next level, in the next level, right? So, yeah, whatever the goals are, but it’s just, yeah, you’re always looking for that next win and that that next mountain top or how’d you put it? was…
and you had to use a different analogy, but new level, new devil yeah, I like that, that’s awesome. Yeah, and some people just don’t get it, right? Our friends or family might not understand where our heads at, but, so I’ll break the wind, short time, and then go on to the next one. Yeah, I love it. Well, Jane, I appreciate you coming to share just a cool story, kinda your path to where you’re at today, and it was the hard path.
Jane Muir (28:16)
New level, new devil.
Keep going. Yeah.
Kevin Daisey (28:40)
I think that’s what makes you special and where you’re at today. Now nothing fazes you, right? But that wouldn’t be where you’re at if you didn’t go through some of those experiences.
Jane Muir (28:51)
Absolutely. the things that I learned along the way, like becoming a leader in an organization was one of the 10 things, right? And I became a leader in multiple organizations, which from doing that, I learned bookkeeping, accounting, taxes. I mean, I’m not a tax attorney and I always just claim that because that’s a whole different thing. But.
I can read 990s. And so it ended up getting me appointed as a receiver. And so I’ve been a receiver now like half a dozen times in five counties. And it’s great because now I’m just, I love getting into a business and seeing how it works and what are the pain points. And it’s so much fun to explain that to the court where
Kevin Daisey (29:26)
That’s awesome.
Jane Muir (29:38)
you’ve got a he said, she said situation like a husband and wife divorce, let’s say. And the court needs to know is this person really stealing from the business or what’s going on? And you get to say, no, it’s the bookkeeper. It was Colonel Mustard in the dining room with candles. Yeah.
Kevin Daisey (29:54)
Yeah. I was gonna say clue. My favorite movie. End
game. That’s awesome. I yeah, the joint joining, becoming a leadership and a leadership role at a, on a board is great because one most boards and charities or whatever it is are looking for people. And so they just throw you in there. So they don’t go, what’s your credentials? It’s like, Oh, you’re, raised your hand. We’re gonna, and then you’re like,
and you’re forced to kind of take charge. So I think that’s a great part of the 10 steps is that one right there for sure.
Jane Muir (30:24)
I love it.
Definitely. And it kind of gets you business because I think people can see how you do one thing is how you do everything. So if you do a good job at your nonprofit leadership role, like you run a tight board meeting, you don’t waste people’s time, you implement improvements, like put together a new website or implement a member management software or just…
you know, throw great parties even that stay on budget. Those kinds of things make people want to hire you. And I think that’s a real recipe for success.
Kevin Daisey (30:59)
Yeah.
Yep, 100%. That’s been a major thing for me doing that over the years. Great tips, advice, lots of things to unpack there, everyone. If you listen to this episode, listen again. We will be sharing this out, of course, and we’ll be breaking down some of the hot takes and clips that are shared by Jane today. Then, of course, Max Law, Maximum Lawyer.
Great group of checkouts and then we talked about that a few times on the show I’m looking forward to being at MaxLawCon this in 2026 things in Atlanta, right? So shout out I should be there speaking and talking to Tyson talking about having me speak at it So I look forward to that if you’re emceeing don’t mess up my introduction
Jane Muir (31:37)
Exactly, yeah.
that’d be great.
I won’t, I won’t. I’ll make you look good, Kevin, don’t you worry.
Kevin Daisey (31:52)
All right, cool. All right, well, you stay on with me for a second. The way this system works, it downloads to our individual hard drives and then it uploads it in case we have any interruption in Wi-Fi, things like that. So, Jane, you stick on with me. Everyone, thank you so much again for tuning in and listening. Hopefully you find it helpful and we will see you on the next episode. Bye, Jane.
Jane Muir (32:05)
Okay.
All right, thanks for having me.
About The Host: Kevin Daisey
Kevin Daisey is both the co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Array Digital, with a legacy in the digital marketplace spanning over two decades. Kevinâs extensive experience in website design and digital marketing makes him a valuable strategic partner for law firms. He doesnât just create digital presences; he develops online growth strategies that help law firms establish and lead in their respective fields.
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