In this Pop-up episode, Tyson interviews Marisa Portuondo, a solo practitioner from Miami, FL. Marisa owns Portuondo Law Firm and focuses on business law and property damage. Listen as they discuss about hiring the right person and go over the different processes and techniques they use in their law firms.

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Topics:

  • Difficulties about hiring
    • Including instructions in job postings
    • Indeed.com
    • 1 of 40 followed instructions in job posting
    • Experience VS instructions
  • Requiring cover letter
    • Require a pdf cover letter
  • Awesome Indeed functions
    • 3 different proficiency quizzes
    • An audio test for people who should use a lot the phone in their jobs
  • Other platforms like Craigslist and ZipRecruiter
  • Generational hiring
    • Skills
    • Technology
    • Using paper
    • Using the phone
  • Training up and coming younger generations these skills
    • Attorneys now are doing a working interview to see how they handle things
  • Hiring process:
    • Hiring someone who comes from a company, who is already trained
    • Put XYZ in subject line; follow instructions
  • Tyson’s Process:
    • Follow instructions in job post
    • Submit the job application before the interview
    • Personality test
    • Pre interview questions and rate themselves
    • Second interview in coffee shop: interactions with other people
    • Third interview: stand up presentation in white board: teach us something
    • Skills assessment
    • Tests from Atticus

 

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In this episode, Jim and Tyson interview Marisa Portuondo, a solopreneur who runs her own business law practice in Miami, Florida. They will go over her journey as a lawyer and entrepreneur paying special attention to her marketing and discussing ways to improve it. Also, her biggest struggles and the value of assistants.

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Marisa does basically everything for business owners: that is transactional or litigation. That has  branched out into construction, because a lot of her clients are in the construction industry. Recently she started doing property damage.

 

Her Firm: Portuondo Law Firm

 

03:14 - Experience

Marisa has a lot of experience in small firms and learned many valuable lessons about running a law firm: “I learned a lot about how to run a law firm and how NOT to run a law firm from the different bosses that I had.”

 

03:59 - 1st Day as a Solo

“I just thought, I don’t even know how to get clients! Marketing has changed so much since then... ”

 

05:17 - Marketing

“Whenever they think about a property claim they think of me, because they don’t know any other property claim attorneys.”  Main marketing is word of mouth

 

08:39 - Her Struggles

Marisa’s biggest struggle is that there’s just never enough time. Marisa has a background in information systems, so she’s now implementing automation and starting to see how much more efficient she’s becoming.

 

09:57 - Her team structure

They will go over Marisa’s team and her new mindset about virtual assistants.

 

12:44 - Technology

Marisa’s main software is Practice Panther

 

14:30 - Flash Forward

“I don’t know if I ever want to become a big firm. I don’t know if that’s the lifestyle that I wanna lead.”

 

15:30 - Why do Marisa does what she does

“I just love helping business owners… I’ve learned a lot about business and I love sharing that information”

 

16:53 - The Advice

Get staff earlier!   

 

20:01 - Hack and Tips of the week

 

Hacking’s hack: Jim’s been listening to James Schramko and he has a tutorial named “Own The Racecourse” The best articulation of the mindset that you should have when creating content.

 

Marisa’s tip: Automation. Get it done. Dig in into your software and automate. If you don’t have one, get one.

 

Tyson’s tip: Tyson’s in the process of hiring 2 new employees and has one very simple piece of advice: make sure that you have the job applicants make them send you a copy of the resume in pdf format. That simple thing is gonna weed out the people who can’t do that single and simple task.

 

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One of the things of growing a firm; it’s like raising a kid, it’s like an organic thing; it’s alive.

In this episode Jim and Tyson interview Attorney Mike Campbell and go through the issues of running and growing your own law firm.

Mike Campbell graduated from the University of Missouri in 2011 and after working as an attorney for other lawyers for a couple years, he decided to take the leap and open a solo practice. He runs his own law firm since 2015. http://mikecampbelllaw.com/

Staffing
Should I hire someone?
Major issue for Mike. As the firm grows, more work needs to be done, and if you want to keep on making a good job with clients and results, you’ll need to eliminate, delegate and/or automate. If your systems are in place, sometimes the only way is staffing, and having people working for you is not easy.

What are we doing well? What should we do better? And what we should stop doing?

Tyson’s Tip: A podcast; “How I Built This”. http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this
It is awesome. They bring on people with established businesses to talk about how they built their companies.

Hacking’s Hack: Believe it or not, an INK PEN. Write down your tasks and things to remember, you will be more effective.

Mike’s Tip: Ring Central. https://www.ringcentral.com/
A web based app, a cloud service. An online office. Lots of great tools, check it out.

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