Latest / Technically Sound Strategy / Episode 39 - Tim McKey on Operational Excellence in Law Firms
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- 0:01Welcome to Legal Marketing Radio, a production of LaFleur Marketing.
- 0:04Last week I chatted with Tim Mckey, co-founder of Vista Consulting, about
- 0:09operational excellence in law firms.
- 0:12Tim is a seasoned CPA and business consultant with decades
- 0:15of experience across local, regional, and national firms.
- 0:19But it was through his consulting practice that Tim found his true passion
- 0:23helping business owners to find success and build strategies to achieve it.
- 0:28As the managing partner of the Mckey Business Group and a key leader at Vista,
- 0:32Tim specializes in strategic planning, financial analysis , and guiding business
- 0:36owners towards both professional growth and personal fulfillment, known for his
- 0:40blinding flashes of the obvious, or BFO's.
- 0:43Tim has a knack for simplifying complex business challenges and
- 0:47inspiring new ways of thinking.
- 0:49Get ready for an insightful conversation about strategy, success, and maybe
- 0:54even a little fun along the way.
- 0:57All right, Tim, it's great to have you here with us today.
- 1:00As we talked previously I've been a big fan of what Vista Consulting
- 1:03has done through the years.
- 1:05Going all the way back to, I think 2000, I don't know, around 2015,
- 1:0916, 17, right around there was one of the first conferences I went to.
- 1:14It was you and there were a few other speakers there and, that kind of turned
- 1:18me on to the operational direction, the tracking and the premise of
- 1:23running a firm as a business it was really eyeopening conference to me.
- 1:27I benefited from it a lot.
- 1:28I've built kind of some of the language that we talk about on the marketing side.
- 1:32From what we learned there.
- 1:33And one of the things that we covered that I think that you still maintain is
- 1:37the four ways of growing a firm, right?
- 1:40And, working with the lawyers that we worked with through the years, there
- 1:44were some outstanding lawyers, but it doesn't necessarily mean that they
- 1:47start out knowing how to run a business.
- 1:49So I guess if you don't mind, give me a little background on you, where you
- 1:53came up with these concepts and then.
- 1:54Let's get into kind of the four ways to grow a firm.
- 1:58Thanks so much, Chip.
- 1:59I'm not going to take the fact that you just dated us, that we've been knowing
- 2:03each other for, I don't think, maybe 11 or 12 years now that we're old.
- 2:07But I just call it experienced or seasoned.
- 2:10it is interesting in a lot of ways and a lot of things.
- 2:12And I'm going to talk about a big life picture here that
- 2:15the basics are the basics.
- 2:17I still think the old Green Bay sweep is a great play.
- 2:20You know, if you do it right, it still works.
- 2:24But in any event, again, the background of Vista Consulting is, uh, um, I
- 2:28started this with my friend, Chad Dudley.
- 2:30And around 2008 and I ended up buying Chad out in 2018 because
- 2:36of some business reasons.
- 2:37He and I are still very good friends and no issues there.
- 2:39But yeah, together we came up with a lot of concepts and some
- 2:43of them have been amended a little bit and some are still the same.
- 2:47But the one concept that we believe in, that I believe in, that Vista teaches.
- 2:52is that there are really only four ways to grow a plaintiff law firm.
- 2:57And two of those ways are actually subsets of the other two.
- 3:01I'll just, I'm not going to hold anyone in suspense.
- 3:04, and it's not rocket science.
- 3:05I can kind of feel people, reaching for their pencils and pens and
- 3:09saying, I'm going to write this down.
- 3:11Well, you're going to probably laugh a little bit, but the first
- 3:14way is you got to get more cases.
- 3:16That's what you're in the business to help do in the marketing side of things.
- 3:20But you got to get those cases and then , on those cases you have
- 3:24to increase the resolution value.
- 3:27That's number two.
- 3:28So get more cases, increase the resolution value.
- 3:32Are the major two, number three is giving the client such a great experience as
- 3:37they come through That they will revisit if needed but refer and become a raving
- 3:43fan of your firm so concentrating on that experience helps you get more cases so
- 3:48you can see that's a subset and number four is simply reviewing every system
- 3:54and process that you use in moving a case through the firm to make sure it is
- 3:59as efficient and effective as possible.
- 4:02And we, uh, I call that the Athens, you know, you got to be good on the Athens.
- 4:06Okay, efficient and effective.
- 4:08I don't stop at just efficient because efficient simply means being fast.
- 4:14And there are at times when cases need to marinate, need to
- 4:18ripen on the vine, you need to do more research, you need experts.
- 4:22And you do that in order to increase the case value.
- 4:25Efficient and effective processes, having a great experience cycle finding the ways
- 4:31to improve the resolution value of the cases, and actually acquiring more cases.
- 4:35So everything that, that we do in our business is to
- 4:39help our clients help theirs.
- 4:41So what we do is help our clients concentrate.
- 4:46on those four ways.
- 4:47How do you get more cases?
- 4:49How do you increase the case value as the major two?
- 4:52I mean your business is, I'll say it this way and I know it's not exactly this way.
- 4:57It's making the phone ring or making the leads come in from whatever source.
- 5:02We generally pick up from there and how do you not fumble that intake?
- 5:07What are the procedures?
- 5:08What are the things that work?
- 5:10What metrics do you?
- 5:12Follow what do you track?
- 5:16How do you train your team?
- 5:17How do you teach empathy?
- 5:18And I know that you guys are working on some metrics in your world marketing
- 5:22dashboards and what's not, um.
- 5:25That can be effective in these areas as well.
- 5:28And now that I've said that word dashboard, I want to
- 5:30define it a little bit.
- 5:31A dashboard is just a collection of reports.
- 5:34Just like you imagine in your car.
- 5:36It's a collection of gauges or reports that can tell you things all in one place.
- 5:40And there are lots of, people in this industry now say,
- 5:43oh, we've got a dashboard.
- 5:44And I always wonder is it the right reports on that dashboard?
- 5:47I don't know.
- 5:48But uh, anyway I'm rambling a little bit, but that's the
- 5:50four ways to grow the business.
- 5:52And I can go into a lot of detail on all of that, but that's.
- 5:56The firms, the plaintiff firms need to keep their eye on that ball, if you will.
- 6:01Yeah.
- 6:02So I hope that makes some sense to you.
- 6:04No, it makes a lot of sense.
- 6:05And I mean, but like you said, I mean, the devil is in the details, right?
- 6:09I know for us, we went down the road very far with a number of different
- 6:13products in order to start to draw up kind of that marketing dashboard.
- 6:18And, there's , two different places that I really give a lot of I want to give a nod
- 6:22out to in terms of what set the direction of the company that I run, right?
- 6:26La Fleur Marketing Vista Consulting is one of those, you know,
- 6:28like, I'm not blowing smoke.
- 6:30I went to that conference and I thought, okay, this makes a lot of sense, right?
- 6:33I'm not a lawyer, but I know how to run a business.
- 6:35And Ben Glass with great legal marketing.
- 6:37I went to one of his conferences early, early stage two.
- 6:40And you know, what the takeaway is.
- 6:42From those two experiences, really, oftentimes, it really boils down to what
- 6:47is important needs to get measured and what gets measured gets attention, and
- 6:54kind of set things and moves things in the direction that you want the firm to go.
- 6:57Because if you're not measuring, then you're just going off a feel.
- 7:01And that's what I've experienced, as we've worked with a number of different
- 7:03firms and we've seen some be more effective and others be less effective.
- 7:07And, um, And Chip, I'm going to
- 7:09interrupt you and say one thing here, that it's our opinion, and I think it's a fact,
- 7:15that to scale any business you're going to have to get some type of reporting,
- 7:21because if not, you're going to have to look into, say you're an automobile repair
- 7:25shop, someone's going to have to expect every, inspect every brake job, somebody's
- 7:29going to have to inspect every this or that, And in plaintiff law firms there's
- 7:34sometimes not a lot of transparency in what's going on within the cases.
- 7:39So having an adequate case management system, knowing what reports to produce,
- 7:45how to analyze those reports, and that kind of thing are very important.
- 7:50And again, our businesses happen to go hand in hand, and I think that's
- 7:53why we're talking to each other.
- 7:55Hopefully giving our mutual clients an idea of what is important, but
- 7:59marketing and operations you have to have that, if you don't have
- 8:02the cases then all is for naught.
- 8:05But if you get a lot of cases and you don't handle them well, then you're
- 8:09going to be like the restaurant who does great in marketing, but doesn't
- 8:13train the weight team and the chef.
- 8:15And they may come, but they come once and that's it.
- 8:17And then they become not your advocate, but your adversary in the marketplace.
- 8:22So.
- 8:23That's what we believe
- 8:24now.
- 8:24I agree.
- 8:26In One of the things that I wish I had known actually years ago when I started
- 8:29running the business is how much you need to be able to filter through the feedback
- 8:38that you get, from people on your team, the folks that you're working with.
- 8:44You know, if you don't keep your eye on that ball around those metrics, then
- 8:48what I've experienced and, you know, just draw a parallel from the media.
- 8:52I don't know if you ever watched the mini series, Chernobyl.
- 8:55Yeah, I did, I did.
- 8:57It's a great show.
- 8:58I loved it.
- 8:59But what you see throughout the whole experience is like when the
- 9:05weight of performance is landing squarely on a person, that person
- 9:10wants to make sure that they get perceived as being effective.
- 9:13And within an organization due to the nature of an organization, the nature
- 9:17of a company, You have leadership, you may have a president, you may have a
- 9:21CEO, you may have a leadership team.
- 9:24All of the people in the organization wants that group of people to
- 9:27think that they're doing great.
- 9:29And often for good reason, right?
- 9:32Our own sense of worth and value is tied to, you know, if we're
- 9:36perceived as productive, effective, efficient, and things like that.
- 9:40And, what I loved about that show, and I realize it's a fictionalized
- 9:43version, but it kind of underscores the challenges of running like a true
- 9:48merit, merit based organization, right?
- 9:51I
- 9:51totally agree.
- 9:53And that's one of the reasons.
- 9:55That when we start looking at metrics, we have three different
- 10:00levels of metrics that we use.
- 10:03There's the management level.
- 10:05That's kind of the win.
- 10:06Who's winning?
- 10:07Are we winning and losing?
- 10:08Okay.
- 10:09Then there's what we call the diagnostic level, which is for mid management and
- 10:15maybe even upper management, but mid management to say, Hey, I'm going to give
- 10:19you an example that who's not blocking or tackling or who is blocking and tackling.
- 10:24So we can see this big scoreboard, but who's performing well.
- 10:28Okay, and I'll give you an example just in the intake department.
- 10:32We want a conversion rate and our definition of conversion rate is from
- 10:36the cases you sign to the cases that you want that meet your criteria.
- 10:40And we think that should be 92%.
- 10:43percent or more.
- 10:45And that's great.
- 10:46But if you have 10 people or maybe even five people in your intake department
- 10:50or maybe it's even two people in your intake department, one could be
- 10:53performing exceptionally well and the other not so well, but the average
- 10:58still hits where it needs to be.
- 11:00So there still needs to be coaching to that.
- 11:03team member that is not performing as well.
- 11:06So you got management reporting, you got diagnostic reporting.
- 11:10And then what's very important to us as well is what we call line
- 11:13reporting are the people on the line.
- 11:16If someone calls in again using intake and our reaches out in some
- 11:21way and you don't get them right away or they hang up or the calls drop.
- 11:25How do we reach back?
- 11:27What is the phone number?
- 11:28What is their contact information?
- 11:30That gives the person doing the actual work, the production,
- 11:34a schedule or a work plan.
- 11:36So again, we believe in three different types of metrics and reporting within
- 11:41businesses or within law firms.
- 11:43And part of our job is to hold people accountable.
- 11:47You know, it's funny, we talk about all these metrics.
- 11:48Just yesterday someone told me that VISTA is known as the report people.
- 11:53And, I thought about that, over the night.
- 11:55And I came in this morning and I actually wrote it down.
- 11:58I think we want to be the accountability people because that's what those reports
- 12:02are for, is to help hold your team accountable, not in a with a hammer way,
- 12:08but in a coaching and a compassionate and to help you perform well way.
- 12:14So there's different ways to, to use that information.
- 12:18Yeah, it makes sense.
- 12:18Operational performance is the measurements of whether or not the
- 12:22organization is moving forward.
- 12:23And so if you can't measure that, if you can't drill in and get the bottom
- 12:27of things, I look at reporting is what are the things that I want to see?
- 12:32What is that first line that I want to see when things are going wrong?
- 12:36And I've had that conversation internally here within our own organization
- 12:40many times through the years.
- 12:41Okay.
- 12:42No matter how many times I tell people I wanna know what's wrong, they still
- 12:50love to tell me about what's going right.
- 12:52Mm-hmm . You know mm-hmm . And I don't blame them.
- 12:54And I do the same thing, right?
- 12:56I've got a board of directors that I report to and speak
- 12:58out to and it is human nature.
- 13:00You wanna tell people what's going right and you wanna chip, oh, sorry.
- 13:04Oh no, you're all right.
- 13:05And I've been down that road and I know you're familiar with the story, but we
- 13:08have a client that we worked with that we have worked with for a long time.
- 13:11They have a great dashboard because you helped them put it together.
- 13:15But, as is often the case, when new client signups started going south.
- 13:19And they weren't hitting the numbers that they expected.
- 13:21The first thing that they did was look at the marketing, to say,
- 13:24Hey, well, something's going wrong, with our intake, with our leads.
- 13:27And we ended up having to drill down pretty deeply and go through
- 13:30each of those phases of reporting.
- 13:32Right.
- 13:33Um, and I didn't have the vocabulary to.
- 13:35Define them in the same way that you just did, but first we looked
- 13:39at intake numbers, intakes are down.
- 13:41Okay, what does that mean, right?
- 13:43Because to me that reporting is the start of trying to diagnose, as you said,
- 13:47trying to diagnose the problem, right?
- 13:50The reporting should be there to help you see problems.
- 13:53No organization is going to run without them, right?
- 13:55We're going to have problems.
- 13:56We're going to have things that we can optimize and improve upon.
- 13:59And so, you know, they came back to us and said, Hey, our intakes are down.
- 14:02We think that, you know, what did you guys do on the marketing side?
- 14:04What's impacted here?
- 14:06We ended up pulling a whole bunch of their data out of their case management system.
- 14:11And what we actually found out in that case was that even though they're
- 14:16wanted their Win ratio as it pertained to wanted cases was up there What we
- 14:22found was that the intake team was marking things as unwanted when they
- 14:27weren't able to close the deal Yeah, and so they're wanted to unwanted
- 14:31ratio stayed right where you right?
- 14:32That's a training
- 14:33issue That is a total training issue.
- 14:36When we say there's only four ways to grow the business There I'm
- 14:41Guessing there's a thousand little ways that go into each of those ways.
- 14:46And,
- 14:47and knowing the ones that are the most important, we're often asked,
- 14:50if you had to measure two things in a law firm, what would they be?
- 14:54And I'll tell you what they are.
- 14:55It's no secret.
- 14:56I'd measure conversion rate on intake . From to the ones you want to the ones you
- 15:01sign and then client contact and I'll tell you why on client contact that's something
- 15:06that should be in your case management system and if it's not, whatever the
- 15:11firm's criteria is every 21 days, every 14, whatever the firm's criteria is,
- 15:15it has, in my opinion, the Has to be measured because that drives case value.
- 15:20Yeah.
- 15:20'cause when you talk to your client and they tell you that something's
- 15:24going on, I've got a new doctor, Hey, I'm feeling okay, but I've
- 15:28got some tingling in my left hand.
- 15:30Oh my gosh.
- 15:31That triggers so many different things.
- 15:34So if there were only two measurements, conversion rate, in intake and
- 15:38client contact in case management
- 15:41. The biggest part of the two ways, the main two ways to grow your business, getting
- 15:45them in and then treating them well.
- 15:48And the contact, there's 10 different things that goes into
- 15:51what questions and all those things.
- 15:53So you can keep peeling back this onion.
- 15:56But those are the things that we consider important.
- 15:58We help our clients measure and the ones that do that, they see a real
- 16:04change or move in their needle.
- 16:05I mean, just think about it.
- 16:07If a firm is hitting 85 percent on their conversion rate and then all of a sudden
- 16:12we can get them to 92 or 3 or 4 and that's 5 cases a month, I'm just throwing this
- 16:18out there, and let's just say that to make the math easy, it's 10,000 Dollars a
- 16:24month, so you got 50, 000 a month That's 600, 000 a year that this firm is missing.
- 16:31So when you start looking at things this way, again, the devil is in the details,
- 16:38but having the scoreboard and having the diagnostic reports and actually
- 16:42helping the line workers do their job efficiently it drives great service.
- 16:49It drives good experience for the client.
- 16:51And guess what?
- 16:52You make more money.
- 16:53Right.
- 16:54Yeah.
- 16:55No, it just makes sense.
- 16:57I mean, we play around with this idea every time we get a physical, right?
- 17:01We go to the doctor, the doctor says, Hey, what are our early stage indicators?
- 17:05Oh, your cholesterol is high.
- 17:07Well, your cholesterol is high, this might result in this long term issue, right?
- 17:11And so you have to do that drill down to say, okay, what are we watching?
- 17:15Why are we watching it?
- 17:17And then what can we do to change that?
- 17:19And we're familiar with that concept, I think in our day to day life, but
- 17:22applying that across the business, I think it's easy to get hung up
- 17:25on, political movements within an organization, different people
- 17:29have different levels of charisma.
- 17:32Some people come off as being more of a team player, but the data doesn't lie.
- 17:36The data points are going to cut through all of that.
- 17:39And, the way that we use it, we operate on an EOS type structure internally,
- 17:44which has been a game changer for us.
- 17:46It allows us to just look and say, all right, if we look at this every week
- 17:51and one of these metrics are wrong, that's not the end of the conversation.
- 17:56It's the beginning of the conversation, right?
- 17:58Absolutely.
- 17:59And, you always want to, you always want to look at things positively and things
- 18:02like that, but like that diagnostic view.
- 18:04To say, okay, maybe all of our numbers look great.
- 18:08But where can we drill down and find where we can optimize and improve them?
- 18:13Going back to that story around the intake team of that firm, what we
- 18:17found out was that they had one person who was really a major performer.
- 18:22And so they were looking at the dashboard that you put together.
- 18:25They noticed something was off that triggered a response and the response
- 18:29was to drill down into the data, right?
- 18:31Yes, like it didn't give them the answer.
- 18:32It just told them that somewhere over here.
- 18:34There's an issue It told us where to look and in that scenario What we ended
- 18:38up doing was we ended up exporting their case management File into power be I at
- 18:43the time and then we drilled down and we started looking at the intake team and
- 18:47seeing the different performance and we found kind of an anomaly in that , like
- 18:52I said, people were getting marked is not wanted, but they actually were wanted.
- 18:57And so we end up having a look at the actual.
- 18:59The actual conversion rate are independent of wanted versus not because we knew that
- 19:04there was probably going to be pretty consistent percentages across the intake
- 19:09teams and what we found was that one person marked a ton more leads as wanted.
- 19:16And then they closed the same amount of wanted so they were hitting,
- 19:19I think, 60 percent of the leads that came in, they called wanted
- 19:23and they brought them in the other
- 19:25observation.
- 19:25Here's the reports were right.
- 19:27The input that went in was wrong.
- 19:30And that is a. training problem, a discussion, a teaching moment,
- 19:36and that's what metrics do for us.
- 19:38It's funny you mentioned, you know, the data doesn't lie.
- 19:41It doesn't lie, but when you dig in, often you find subjective
- 19:46things that are causing it.
- 19:48This particular person , wasn't trained, was trained incorrectly or whatever it
- 19:53was that made them check a box different.
- 19:56And that's why, we believe in retraining, retraining, retraining.
- 20:01There's a , theologian in the 1700s named Samuel Johnson, and he said
- 20:06something that I absolutely love.
- 20:08He said, Because a lot of times, we don't need to learn something new.
- 20:11We need to be reminded.
- 20:13Yeah.
- 20:13And I love that because that's what, we believe in lunch and learns at law firms.
- 20:19We believe in constant training.
- 20:21And it's not that, hey, we're going to teach you something new.
- 20:24Let's just remember what we should be doing.
- 20:28And if you're, no matter what, if you are religious or not religious, but
- 20:32people that go to church, synagogue, mosque, wherever, they know the story.
- 20:37They go to be reminded, and this is the same thing, so I hope
- 20:41that makes some sense to you.
- 20:43It makes a ton of sense, and to me that story in that example is an
- 20:48example of the reporting going right?
- 20:50Yes, right because the issue was raised not after the revenue was
- 20:57not received like, you know there would have been two ways to approach
- 21:00this navigate this one would have been Hey a year and a half later.
- 21:06We're not seeing revenue come into the firm Because a year and a half previous,
- 21:11we weren't addressing this issue.
- 21:12So if you're just looking at the bank account and you're looking at the
- 21:15funds coming in, It's way too late.
- 21:17This got raised, about a month in, intakes dropped in, in one month.
- 21:22And in that very first month, the flag was raised and said, Hey, we need
- 21:27to find out what's going wrong here.
- 21:29And, as is often the case, marketing got tossed out there first.
- 21:33Right.
- 21:33But that was okay.
- 21:34You guys are the easiest to point to.
- 21:37Yeah.
- 21:37Yeah.
- 21:38But that worked out great because I love digging into the data and
- 21:40finding the right answer because.
- 21:42Due to them flagging and saying, Hey, we're not bringing
- 21:44in the leads that we want.
- 21:45You guys are giving us bad leads.
- 21:47We dissected it within 30 days.
- 21:50They had rehired the person who had left, who had that high close rate
- 21:55and she was back up and running.
- 21:56And she continued to produce at a very high level for that firm.
- 22:00And if six months had gone by.
- 22:02Uh, if three months had gone by, I don't think they would have
- 22:06been able to rehire that person.
- 22:07They wouldn't have been able to address that.
- 22:09I call that the
- 22:09bubble through the snake.
- 22:11When there's a problem in a law firm, when your intakes are down, the revenue
- 22:15goes down, eight, nine, 10 months down the road, or maybe a little bit
- 22:19longer depending on the type firm.
- 22:20But the longer you let the problem persist, the bigger the bubble.
- 22:25And that can cause problems.
- 22:26We saw a lot of that during COVID when Everyone in the country's intake was down
- 22:32for a specific reason, it wasn't much that people could do it You know, it was funny,
- 22:36you're getting that payroll protection money back then and the problem wasn't
- 22:41then The problem is going to be in the future and we had to do some serious.
- 22:45Writing in making sure that the government knew, hey, our problem is not right
- 22:51now, it's, but it's coming . And, uh, so we were successful with that.
- 22:54But anyway, it's just observation my job , I told somebody yesterday that my job
- 22:58is really, I'm a professional observer, and just watching and then saying,
- 23:02okay, what is causing these things?
- 23:04And I would go as far to say, forget about business, but anything that's gone
- 23:08a little bit wrong in my life is because I didn't get it set up right to begin with.
- 23:12And that's what we try to do is just make sure our firms are looking
- 23:15at what they should be looking at.
- 23:16Hey, if it's a problem here today, it can be a problem there
- 23:20tomorrow, which affects revenue.
- 23:22And again, just one more observation, if a firm comes to us and says, we're not
- 23:27making enough money, that is a by product.
- 23:30That's a by product of systems, processes, things you're doing in the beginning.
- 23:35Because profit is a byproduct of good service and systems and processes.
- 23:41So we just need to sometimes redirect a little bit, and I'll say remind.
- 23:46Hey everybody, if you think about it, that makes sense.
- 23:48But sometimes we, you know, I say that, and I'm pointing out
- 23:52myself, I'm intellectually lazy.
- 23:54Okay, I've got a problem now.
- 23:55What's going on, the problem is not at the end of the assembly line.
- 23:58The problem is back up the assembly line and sometimes we don't go there.
- 24:03So anyway, it's fun to look at that and Help law firms realize, you know
- 24:08that there's a lot of moving parts in here , it's very simple get more
- 24:12cases increase the average case value.
- 24:14Oh, but here are another thousand things that go into that
- 24:18Yeah, for sure for sure, but you know, I appreciate your perspective.
- 24:22I mean your perspective carries I think an additional weight because
- 24:26You have the opportunity to observe across multiple firms, right?
- 24:30And it gets us outside of our own little bubble, you know
- 24:33of hey I'm there every day.
- 24:35These are the people.
- 24:36These are the personalities, but when you see patterns across multiple
- 24:41organizations, that's where I think a lot of that value comes in.
- 24:44Now, you guys have a conference coming up, right?
- 24:47Yeah, we do.
- 24:47You want to share some details around that?
- 24:48Yeah.
- 24:49April the 7th and 8th in Nashville, Tennessee.
- 24:52We're calling it Vista 360.
- 24:54We're going to be concentrating at that event on four different things.
- 24:58It's not the four ways to grow a law firm, but it's the practice of law, the business
- 25:03of law, or business of running a law firm, leadership, the importance of leadership
- 25:08in that, and also the disruption that's going on in this law firm, plaintiff
- 25:13law firm industry, and we could do it.
- 25:16Five podcasts on that ship, but there's a lot of things are changing non
- 25:19lawyer ownership potential investment coming in from lots of different
- 25:24places and I could go into Again, 10 other things that are causing it, the
- 25:28aging population of law firm owners
- 25:31anyway,
- 25:31so But we're going to be covering those things.
- 25:34And I know it's going to be a really good event.
- 25:37And I think there will be a lot of knowledge transfer, which is what we want.
- 25:41So I appreciate you bringing that up.
- 25:43No, I appreciate it, Tim.
- 25:44As always, man.
- 25:45Thank you.
- 25:45Thank you for joining me here.
- 25:47I appreciate your insight, your experience too.
- 25:49It's always a pleasure.
- 25:50You're very welcome, man.
- 25:51And go to our website.
- 25:53If you need to look us up, www.vistact.com that's as in Cat,
- 25:58Tom, Vista "Consulting Team" .com.
- 26:02Thank you, Chip.
- 26:04Thanks, Tim.
- 26:05A big thank you to Tim for joining us today.
- 26:08You can learn more about Tim through the Vista Consulting website,
- 26:11www.vistact.com, or Mckey Business group site at www.Mckeybusinessgroup.com.
- 26:21You can also find Tim on LinkedIn or catch him at Vista 360 on April
- 26:25seven and eight, 2025 at the Omni Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee.
- 26:30Registration is open and spots are filling up fast.
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