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Top 10 episodes for boutique lawyers in 2024
What conversations did sole practitioners and SME law firm owners find most fascinating in the past 12 months? Check out the 10 most downloaded episodes for this legal demographic here.
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10. The Boutique Lawyer Show: Maintaining passion as a firm owner
Maintaining passion and momentum while dealing with the day-to-day grind and challenges of running a business and promoting growth in a regional area can be arduous for firm leaders in any practice area. Here’s how Kymberlei Goodacre does it.
9. The Boutique Lawyer Show: Growing and managing your firm (and lessons from motorsports)
Sven Burchartz knew he wanted to be a lawyer in year 10. Since then, his vocational journey has taught him a lot about what it takes to succeed as a business leader – including how leaning into his passion for motorsports has aided his growth.
8. The Boutique Lawyer Show: Onboarding – an overlooked necessity for small firms?
In the competitive landscape of talent acquisition and retention, Australian businesses are increasingly recognising the importance of an effective onboarding process. Here, in this special episode brought to you by Lawyers Weekly’s sister brand, HR Leader, host Jack Campbell sits down with Lauren Karan, director at Karan & Co, to discuss just how crucial it is to get this step right.
7. The Boutique Lawyer Show: Don’t be so hard on yourself
It can be easy for small-business owners and leaders to expect too much of themselves or overreact if they are seemingly falling short in perfectly managing the juggle of multiple duties – particularly if one is a working parent. However, there are ways to work through such thought processes and perceptions.
6. The Boutique Lawyer Show: ‘Just keep moving forward’
Jane Bowes cannot recall a time when she was ever as happy and motivated to go to work as she is right now. However, to get to this place, she has overcome hardship and trauma, found success through failure, and learnt – over the course of her vocational journey – that being a “rough diamond” is one of her biggest strengths.
5. The Boutique Lawyer Show: Lessons from the first year as a firm owner
Both personally and professionally, there is much that a firm owner will learn in the first 12 months of operating a legal practice. Here, we unpack some of the headline lessons, surprises, and tricks that one award-nominated practitioner has gleaned.
4. The Boutique Lawyer Show: Building a personal board of directors
As a new boutique firm owner, Stefani Janson appreciates being able to define her vocational legacy while enjoying the rollercoaster of being a business owner. Part of her early success is down to having found and nurtured a tribe that is helping her flourish.
3. The Boutique Lawyer Show: Life as a practitioner in the Top End
Given its transient population and also environmental and cultural diversity, practising in the Northern Territory offers a vocational experience unlike most, if not all, Australian jurisdictions. There are also idiosyncratic challenges to navigate, meaning creative business approaches are key, with myriad lessons to be learnt for SME firm owners.
2. The Boutique Lawyer Show: ‘Your staff is everything, particularly in law’
Reflecting on the biggest challenges facing SME firm owners in Western Australia, Nicola Watts says that leaders have to be consistently engaging with their staff to not only attract and retain top talent but also to better understand and appreciate evolving attitudes to career trajectory for those coming through the ranks.
1. The Boutique Lawyer Show: Starting a firm while working full-time in another job
One year ago, Jarrod Kenney founded his own law firm – while still working full-time in a separate role. Here, he reflects on the myriad challenges involved with starting a legal practice as a concurrent career, setting parameters defining a competitive edge, and what he’s learnt both about himself and the experience of practitioners along the way.
