The Law Firm Owner Podcast
Hosted by Melissa · Melissa Shanahan | Law Firm Management & Strategic Planning Coach
4.9from 48 ratings
- 387
- Episodes
- 132
- Transcribed
- 48
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
About The Law Firm Owner Podcast
Are you a law firm owner ready to grow your firm on your own terms? The Law Firm Owner Podcast, powered by Velocity Work, is a weekly show for law firm owners who want real management strategies for building a firm they're proud of. Velocity Work has worked with 300+ law firms over almost a decade, helping owners grow revenue while building teams and businesses that run intentionally instead of reactively. It's not always about revenue, either - more often than not law firm owners are looking to spend more time with their family, reduce stress inside their teams or plan for meaningful decisions like hiring experienced attorneys or shaping things up to retire. Host and founder Melissa Shanahan brings a straight-talk approach to the podcast, covering how to organize your numbers, build your team, grow revenue, and strategies to run things on your terms. Each episode gets into what it actually takes to build law firm success: case management workflows that scale, strategies for building your firm's image and reputation, and workweek strategies that protect your time. Through quarterly strategic planning, accountability, and courageously clear coaching, Melissa shows listeners how to build a firm that reflects their ambition, not just their to-do list. Tune in for: - Law firm management systems that actually work - Law firm entrepreneurship tips for owners ready to scale - Case management workflow strategies that save time and reduce chaos - Ways to grow law firm revenue without adding more overhead - Practical law firm tips you can put to use the same week you hear them - Workweek strategies to protect your time and increase output - Real talk about law firm life, from scrappy startups to multi-million-dollar practices Whether you're running a small law firm or scaling an established practice, The Law Firm Owner Podcast gives you the strategy and community to build a firm on your own terms. Follow now and join a community of law firm owners committed to taking their firms from where they are to where they want to be.
- Publisher
- Melissa Shanahan | Law Firm Management & Strategic Planning Coach
- Category
- business · business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 8 Aug 2019
- Latest episode
- 6 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
132 of 387 episodes have a transcript.
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
#382: Heads Down, Grinding It Out: When Working Harder Isn't the Answer
29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
#381: Lost at Sea: When Your Firm No Longer Needs You the Same Way
22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
#380: The Truth Is Hard to See from Inside It
Inside a recent episode
#382: Heads Down, Grinding It Out: When Working Harder Isn't the Answer
Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But you can do it for yourself. It's just difficult. And it requires a patience to just stop. sit with yourself and be with yourself and observe what surfaces in your mind, make notes of some of those things. And then you will, you'll start to have ideas on how to run different scenarios or, you know, if this, then that, and to play with it. I think that's actually, that's something I should say here, to play with it. This should feel playful in running different scenarios in an attempt to dismantle certain assumptions that you do have, it should feel like playing with it. You don't have to do anything. […]
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- Shavon Smith
- Jenni Evans
- Jimmy Evans
- Bobby Botnick
- Abby Botnick
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 38 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 10 ratings
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- 97
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 90
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