Introducing
A 5-step formula for identifying and eliminating the waste in your law practice, so you can
increase revenue, cut costs, and deliver even better service to your clients...without spending any more time at the office.
We're attorneys and practice management experts. We're also the exclusive Global Advisors (Legal Process Improvement) to the International Institute of Legal Project Management.
We've taken everything we've learned across decades of practicing law and almost 10 years of advising attorneys and created a step-by-step framework you can use to build a more profitable and productive law practice.
We'll teach you the THEORY and PRACTICE you need to identify and eliminate the waste that's costing you time and money, and preventing you from doing what you love to do.
Practice Accelerator isn't so much a training course as it is an implementation program
Yes, you'll learn the strategies behind everything you need to do, but more importantly, you'll have a meticulous, step-by-step plan that leaves nothing out and takes nothing for granted.
Maybe you've taken online courses before, but struggled to put your new skills into action. Don't worry. We've got your back. Every week you'll get 60 minutes of live online group coaching. You can submit questions by email or join us live. We are committed to your success.
The end result: more money and less stress...without putting in more time at the office.
Practice Accelerator
is the ONLY program of its kind that…
1. Provides a proven, practical, actionable framework
In Practice Accelerator, you'll learn the core skills you need to succeed. We focus on what we know works. No extra theory. No needless jargon. Just useful tools to boost your revenue, cut your costs, and deliver your services even more effectively.
2. Is built by lawyers for lawyers
We've been in your shoes. We are lawyers. We know how hard it is to practice law AND run a thriving business. We're also practice management experts.
We've seen first-hand how the practical strategies you'll learn in Practice Accelerator allow attorneys to deliver higher-quality, more profitable services to clients in less time and with less effort.
We've worked with attorneys in-house and in private practice across North America. We've helped them improve everything from intake to invoicing, litigation to transactional work, IP and regulatory matters.
We know this stuff works. It works for us and it works for others. We're going to show you how to make it work for you.
3. Combines self-paced learning AND live-online coaching
We know you're busy, so we've designed a program that lets you work through our video modules, workbooks, and exercises on your own time and at your own pace. We've built in space for you to learn, reflect, and apply the skills.
And you'll get 60 minutes of group coaching every week via video conference. So if you're having trouble applying something you've learned, or have any questions at all, you can join us each week. No other program gives you this kind of ongoing mentoring and support.
Even better, you'll have lifetime access to the program, including recordings of the coaching sessions. You can go back and listen to lessons and coaching sessions as often as you need to.
4. Is delivered by internationally accredited trainers
We are the exclusive Global Advisors (Legal Process Improvement) to the International Institute of Legal Project Management. We're also Accredited Training Providers.
We've taught thousands of attorneys just like you how to use process improvement strategies to build more profitable practices by doing more in less time and with less effort.
So if you’re finally ready to boost your revenue and cut your costs, without spending any more time at the office...
Join us. We've got the whole route mapped out for you.
Module 1
See your practice differently
If you keep doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result, you're wasting your valuable time and energy. Throughout this program, you're going to learn to see your practice differently, so you can start doing things differently and finally get the results you want. It starts right here in Module 1.
We'll look at what's changing in the legal profession today and examine what's driving YOU to do things differently in your own practice. You'll start by defining your vision for the future. Your new insight will give you the power to build the practice you want, whatever that looks like to you. We'll introduce your toolkit and the 5-step Practice Accelerator Framework, and you'll...
Learn to:
- Understand what law firms need for growth
- Define what success looks like for you
- Harness the power of incremental change
Module 2
Identify Your ONE Big Thing
Law is knowledge work. It's true that a lot of what your clients value comes from what goes on inside your head…but everything outside your head is a process. And every one of those processes can be improved.
In this module, we’re going to look hard at the processes you have in place and identify the ones you need to accelerate your practice.
You’re going to identify ONE IMPORTANT PROCESS you want to improve. Over the next few weeks, we’re going to teach you, step-by-step, exactly how you’re going to make that process better.
Learn to:
- Define your work. It's the first step in our Practice Accelerator Framework
- Look at what you do through the eyes of your clients: who are they and what do they need & want
- Understand the processes law firms need to succeed and take a hard look at own your processes
- Select your TARGET, the one key process you're going to work on for the rest of Practice Accelerator. If you follow our framework and put in the work, you will see results within the next 90 days.
Module 3
Set Your Baseline
You can’t improve what you can’t see. In this module you’ll focus on how you work now to deliver what your clients need. In this second step in the Practice Accelerator Framework, you'll MEASURE the performance of your current state.
We’ll introduce you to the concepts of value and waste, and teach you how to identify the wastes in the way you work.
Your goal: to understand your baseline so you can accelerate from there.
Learn to:
- Use the DOWNTIME method for spotting the eight wastes that are making your work take longer than it should, or seem harder than it should
- Identify the wastes, frustrations, and friction points in your practice, and especially in your target process
- Start thinking like an innovator: every problem you identify is an opportunity to make your practice better
Module 4
You've Found the Problems...Now What?
Maybe Dr. Franknfurter got it right when he said, "the rain isn't really to blame, so I'll remove the cause but not the symptom."
Change initiatives often fail because people fix the wrong things. They treat the symptoms of a problem, without looking at its root cause. The result: people get frustrated. Their effort feels wasted because the problem just keeps coming back.
In this module, you’ll learn to avoid this trap. You'll ANALYZE the problems you've found and get laser-focused on the real sources of your inefficiency and waste. Fix those and your practice can take off.
Learn to:
- Stop blaming yourself and other people for broken processes
- Identify the six typical causes of waste in law practices and spot them in your own office
- Master an easy-to-use tool to get to the bottom of the problems that are putting the brakes on your practice, costing you money, and wasting your time
Module 5
Redesign Your Process For Maximum Impact
Now for the fun part! You know where the problems are and what's causing them. You've done the diagnosis...now it's time for the cure. Welcome to the IMPROVE phase of the Practice Accelerator Framework.
In this module, you’ll design solutions to overcome the inefficiency and waste in your target process.
When you’re done, you’ll have a plan: a list of improvement opportunities prioritized by benefit and effort.
You’ll have the roadmap to create your new practice.
Learn to:
- Adopt the innovator's mindset and completely change the way you respond to ideas and improvements
- Run effective brainstorming sessions that generate long and strong lists of improvement opportunities
- Apply two simple tools to prioritize those improvement opportunities based on the outcome they deliver and the effort you're going to have to put in
- Create an improvement plan for your target process
Module 6
Make Your Changes Stick
OK, you know reducing the waste, frustration, and friction in your law practice is the most effective way to grow your income and deliver great service in less time and with less effort.
Now you’ve got the roadmap. You know what you need to do. But change is difficult and old habits die hard. Don’t let your efforts go to waste.
In this module, you’ll learn to make your improvements sustainable and create CONTROLS, so you don’t slide back into your old ways when the going gets tough.
Learn to:
- Create your control strategy
- Learn 4 strategies for building the habits you need to sustain change
- Decide how you're going to document your new processes, so you have no unwritten rules in your practice
- Use failure to your advantage. Improvements don't always work out the way you plan, but you'll learn how to use failure to build even better systems.
The LeanLegal® Academy 14-Day Money-Back Guarantee
Practice Accelerator is a comprehensive method to identify and reduce or eliminate waste in legal work, for people who are excited and COMMITTED to building a more profitable and productive law practice.
By the end of these 14 days, you'll have had access to the first two modules and the first two live-online group coaching sessions.
You'll have had the opportunity to define your own success, start seeing your practice differently, identify the processes you have and the ones you're missing, and identify the one important process you're going to improve across the rest of the Practice Accelerator program...all BEFORE you make a final commitment.
If you don't feel totally motivated to improve your practice and confident that Practice Accelerator can help you, simply reach out to us, show us you've put in the work, and we'll refund your investment. Full details here.
JOIN PRACTICE ACCELERATOR TODAY
AND GET...
The FULL Practice Accelerator Program
(a $1,497 Value)
You'll get access to 6 video modules and all the supporting workbooks, cheat sheets, resource guides and tools you need to make an impact in your practice.
PLUS THESE ADDITIONAL BONUSES:
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Six one-hour sessions of online coaching
You'll get the chance to ask questions and get help implementing everything you've learned in weekly live online group sessions with internationally accredited experts committed to your success. No other program offers this additional LIVE mentoring and support (a $1,200 value). -
An exclusive private networking & support group
You'll get access to a private Facebook group open only to other course participants, to share knowledge and support (a $297 value). -
Our Matter Management Masterclass
You get free access to this two-hour intensive online workshop. Learn a powerful visual method to manage your legal matters, so you can stay on time and on budget with less stress and less effort. If you've already taken it, you can gift this workshop to anyone you think will benefit from it (a $400 value).
When you add it all up, that’s a total value of $3,394!
But when you enroll today, you’ll get access to everything for just:
Pay Instalments
2 Payments of
$547
OR
Pay Upfront
Single Payment of
$997
Frequently Asked Questions
What our most successful students asked before joining Practice Accelerator
We've designed the program for busy people. Learn at your own pace, in short video lessons and transcripts so you can read them if that's your preferred learning method. And you get lifetime access, so if something comes up (and it will!) you can hit the pause button and come back to the program when you're ready. Even the weekly live coaching sessions will be recorded and available for you.
We know you're probably already spending more time than you like at your desk. The question you need to ask is what would happen if you didn't do it. You'd be in the same place next year, wondering how you can keep going.
Every time you reinvent the wheel, every minute you spend trying to remember how you did something the last time, or working around some problem with your technology...they all add up to longer days and more stress.
In Practice Accelerator, you'll learn how to find those wasted hours. You'll be able to make changes and create systems that recapture the time you're losing every single day.
That would be true if you were billing for every single minute you are in the office. But you're not. In a small firm or solo practice, you're probably only billing for about 40% of your day. In a larger firm, it might be a bit more.
But in every matter, in every day, there are things you write off or write down or just can't bill for. Getting more efficient means eliminating some of those write-offs and write-downs, so you make more money, not less.
Then think about the business and administrative tasks that take too long. Time entry. Billing & collections. Expenses. Onboarding a new client. Time you save by making those tasks more efficient will give you MORE time to put towards billable work.
Of course, if you do any flat fee work, every improvement you make to your legal process—every minute you save— means better margins.
In every matter, there are things you do regularly. Sure, the facts may be different, the content of your motions or agreements may change, and the exact path you follow from client intake to final invoice may twist and turn. But there will still be routine things.
We'll teach you how to spot the routine, regular things and streamline them. You'll see where you can create a system, add some automation, and eliminate the friction so you can accomplish more in less time and with less effort...even if your legal work seems totally individualized.
Yes we do. We may not be specialists in your area, but we know the pressures you're under. We know your day never ends when the clock strikes 5, that matters can go off the rails quickly, and client emergencies can be stressful, costly, and extremely serious. We know...because we’ve been in your shoes. We’ve practiced law for decades.
Yes, there are things about practicing law that are different from other kinds of businesses. But like in other kinds of businesses, we need to accomplish three main things to be successful. We need to
- generate new business
- provide service that meets our clients’ expectations and delivers them the value they want
- promptly collect what we are owed.
We've spent close to a decade taking proven business improvement strategies and adapting them to our profession. We've been applying the LeanLegal toolkit inside law firms and seeing the results. We know it works. Now, we've created Practice Accelerator so that lawyers like you can benefit from what we've learned and build their own profitable, productive practices.
Do you know only about 18% of lawyers take courses on how to manage a practice? By learning new methods of managing your practice, you’re immediately distinguishing yourself from your competition and giving yourself a powerful advantage (Clio 2019 Legal Trends Report).
Why don't most lawyers take these courses? Because they think they can figure it out on their own. The thing is, we never learned to run businesses in law school. We learned how to be lawyers. Your job is to deliver great legal services.
We’ve spent years figuring out how to take these business principles and apply them to the practice of law. We’ve distilled it down to the LeanLegal toolkit: the key things you need to know to be successful, to make you more efficient and productive.
So yes, you could probably figure it out on your own but you don’t have to. We’ve done the heavy lifting for you.
We've also set up the program with some built-in supports to help you implement what you've learned, including a private Facebook group for peer support and regular weekly live coaching sessions with us.
Online Platform: When you sign up, you'll get password-protected access to your personal site in our online learning platform, Kajabi.
Course Format: The course consists of 6 modules, with a total of 29 video lessons and 19 downloadable worksheets, cheat sheets, resources and guides. It should take you about an hour a week for 6 weeks to work through the videos, plus some extra thinking and working time to complete your worksheets.
Live Coaching: Every Thursday at 2 p.m. EST, for the 6 weeks of the program, we'll be live on Zoom for a one-hour group coaching and troubleshooting session. We'll upload the recordings immediately afterwards, in case you miss the live sessions.
If you need extra support in between, you'll be able to consult with your peers in the Practice Accelerator private Facebook group, and we may be live in there during the week from time to time.
Schedule: All course videos, workbooks and resource materials will appear in Kajabi, starting with Module 1 on Monday, February 24, 2020.
A new module will appear in your Kajabi site every Monday at 9 a.m. EST, giving you time to work through it before the new one drops in.
And you'll have lifetime access, so you can work through the modules in your own time, and go back to listen again whenever you need to. Learn more in our Terms and Conditions, here.
We offer a 14-day money-back guarantee.
Practice Accelerator is a comprehensive method to identify and reduce or eliminate waste in legal work, for people who are excited and COMMITTED to building a more profitable and productive law practice.
By the end of 14 days, you'll have had access to the first two modules and the first two live-online group coaching sessions.
You'll have had the opportunity to define your own success, start seeing your practice differently, identify the processes you have and the ones you're missing, and identify the one important process you're going to improve across the rest of the Practice Accelerator program...all BEFORE you make a final commitment.
If you don't feel totally motivated to improve your practice and confident that Practice Accelerator can help you, simply reach out to us, show us you've put in the work, and we'll refund your investment. Full details here.
Absolutely! Read on...
Here’s what you’re getting when you enroll today:
The FULL Practice Accelerator Program - $1,497 Value
- Six 1-hour live group coaching sessions- $1,200$
- Our full Matter Management Masterclass - $400 Value
- A private networking & support group - $297 Value
Total Value: $3,394
When you add it all up, that’s a value of $3,394
But when you enroll today, you’ll get access to everything for just:
Pay Instalments
2 Payments of
$547
OR
Pay Upfront
One-time Payment of
$997
Practice Accelerator is PERFECT for you if…
- You need to find ways to cut costs without cutting the quality you deliver to your clients
- You want to boost your revenue but you don't want to spend any more time in the office
- You KNOW there has to be a way to reduce the frustration and friction you feel when you're running your practice, but you're just not sure how to get started
- You're already working on making your practice better, but you want a clear roadmap and some skills that will help you achieve your goals and make your changes stick
- You've tried learning this stuff before but you need more than just a course, you want coaching to help you implement what you've learned
- You want to change, but you don't have a big budget or a lot of extra time to attend conferences or hire consultants
- You're ready to invest an hour or so a week for the next six weeks to create an even more successful practice
If you said “yes” to at least 4 of the above, we can’t wait to meet you inside Practice Accelerator
Here’s what you’re getting when you enroll today:
The FULL Practice Accelerator Program - $1,497 Value
- Six 1-hour live group coaching sessions- $1,200$
- Our full Matter Management Masterclass - $400 Value
- A private networking & support group - $297 Value
Total Value: $3,394
When you add it all up, that’s a value of $3,394
But when you enroll today, you’ll get access to everything for just:
Pay Instalments
2 Payments of
$547
OR
Pay Upfront
1 Payment of
$997
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