Four books on running a firm like a business.

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From Lawyer to Law Firm

How to Manage a Successful Law Business

By Elizabeth Miller & Joryn Jenkins · Foreword by Ashley Belleau · Used in the curriculum at Cooley Law School

Managing the business of law should matter to a lawyer as much as practicing it, because it decides whether a firm succeeds or fails. Liz and co-author Joryn Jenkins draw on a combined seventy-plus years in the profession to cover the commercial side of running a firm, everything that shapes its most important asset: the attorney-client relationship. The namesake book, and the one used in the curriculum at Cooley Law School.

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Delegate or Suffocate

How to Stop Doing Everything Yourself!

By Elizabeth Miller, MBA · Published 2024

The skill most firm owners never learned: handing work to the right person at the right level. Liz shows how delegation done well cuts cost, kills burnout, and frees attorneys for the high-value work only they can do, with a practical system for deciding what to delegate and to whom.

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Hacking Billable Hours

By Elizabeth Miller

Billing is how a firm gets paid, covers its overhead, and pays its people, and most firms do it badly. This book makes billing a regular, painless part of running the practice: bill every thirty days, reconcile trust accounts, and keep cash flow steady. Liz's attorney clients run under five percent AR (her figure, from the book).

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Grow Your Firm, Keep Your Sanity

By Elizabeth M. Miller

A roadmap for growth-stage firms ready to move from day-to-day survival into sustainable, strategic expansion: streamlined operations, a leadership team that supports growth, financial systems that drive profit, marketing that attracts the right clients, and scaling without sacrificing quality or burning out. Not theory, what works in real firms.

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