Growing Your Practice

Build a legal practice that is profitable, predictable, and capable of growing beyond you.

Who This Is For?

This coaching, mentoring and consulting is specifically for independent legal practitioners who already have an established practice and are ready to take it to the next stage - i.e. growing and scaling it.

It is for:

  • solicitor sole practitioners

  • barristers

  • consultant and independent lawyers working within law firms

This is not about starting a practice - it is about that point that we all get to as solo lawyers where we want to take it to the next level.

It is about developing an existing one so it can grow in a deliberate, structure, purposeful and controlled way.

Common Problems At This Growth Stage

As solo law practices grow, quite usual and predictable yet significant challenges arise.

Common issues include:

  • not knowing what to do next

  • fatigue

  • decision making inertia or overload

  • increasing workload without commensurate profitability

  • inconsistent and unpredictable revenue

  • lack of clearly documented as well as automated systems and workflows

  • reactive work patterns

  • lack of sufficient planning and reflection time

  • pricing structures that have not kept pace with experience

  • too much low-value or routine work not being automated

  • uncertainty about delegation, support, or next steps of engaging support

These are not competency issues but more so structural issues.

What Growth Actually Means

Growth does not simply mean working longer hours or becoming busier, it should focus on;

  • systemising your practice so it can take on more work and more people

  • exceptional growth and profitability

  • pricing discipline

  • strengthening cash flow and financial visibility

  • creating predictability in workload and revenue

  • freeing up your time and your headspace through better structure

  • clear practice and niche growth areas

  • ideal client definition and your unique value to them

  • taking your business to the next level

  • intake, triage, and matter management discipline

  • consistent marketing and referral activity

Why Coaching, Mentoring & Consulting By Us Is Different

Most law firm consultants:

  • have never practised law

  • practised briefly or many years ago

  • or apply generic business coaching models to legal practices

Our work is informed by Paul Ippolito who has:

  • ongoing legal practice experience

  • direct experience running a law firm for over 18 years

  • experience teaching and educating law students and lawyers

  • still researches and present on the future of legal practice

The advice Paul Ippolito our business growth specialist for solo lawyers gives his clients is credible, grounded, and commercial.

If you’re thinking about growth but unsure whether your practice is actually ready for it, start with our Taking Your Solo Law Practice To The Next Level checklist.

It’s a practical tool designed to raise the issues you need to get right before growing and scaling your practice further.

“Paul helped me identify what is working well in my solo legal practice, some common pitfalls to avoid and how to take a broader approach to building a sustainable practice. His insights provided me with much needed perspective of building a practice”.

 Solo Law Firm Principal

Next Steps

If you’re already running a solo practice and need clarity on priorities and direction, the Solo Practice Tune-Up is designed for exactly that point.

Book Your Solo Practice Tune-Up