Tampa, Florida
A law firm operations consultant in Tampa who actually picks up the phone.
I am Liz Miller, a fractional COO and CFO for law firms, based right here in Tampa. I work one on one with firm owners who are good lawyers but were never handed a playbook for running the business behind the practice. When you call, you get me.
What a fractional COO and CFO does for a Tampa firm
Most firm owners in Tampa did not start a practice because they wanted to manage a payroll, chase down unbilled time, or build an intake process. They started it to practice law. But the day the firm became a business, a second job appeared, and no one trained for it.
A fractional executive fills that gap without the cost of a full-time hire. As a fractional COO, I take ownership of how the firm runs day to day. As a fractional CFO, I bring clarity to the money, what is coming in, what is going out, and what the owner actually takes home. The point is simple: you go back to practicing law while the business gets run on purpose instead of by accident.
Where I usually start
- –Untangling operations so the firm is not running through the owner's inbox.
- –Getting cash flow and collections predictable instead of feast-or-famine.
- –Finding the real profitability of the firm and the owner's true compensation.
- –Turning intake from leaks and missed calls into a process that converts.
Serving Tampa law firms
Tampa Bay is a busy, competitive legal market. The region is home to a deep bench of solo practitioners and small firms across personal injury, family law, estate planning, criminal defense, immigration, and business law, many of them growing fast enough that the operations behind the practice never quite caught up.
That growth is the opportunity and the trap at the same time. A firm can win more cases, hire more people, and still feel like it is one bad month away from a cash crunch. More revenue without better systems usually just means more chaos at a larger scale.
I work with that exact moment. Whether you are a one-attorney shop deciding whether to make your first real hire, or a small firm that has outgrown the way it was set up, the work is to build the operational and financial backbone the practice has been missing, sized to where your firm actually is, not where a template says it should be.
Ways I work with Tampa firms
Ongoing fractional roles for firms that need a hand on the wheel, and focused projects for firms that need one thing fixed well.
Fractional COO
Own the way the firm runs, process, people, and the systems that keep it moving.
Fractional CFO
Clarity on the numbers, from cash flow to the owner's real take-home.
Strategic Partner
A steady thinking partner for the big decisions you should not make alone.
Intake Coordinator Training
Turn the front line of your firm into a team that converts the right callers.
Operations Audit
A clear-eyed look at where the firm leaks time, money, and momentum.
Cash Flow & Collections
Get paid for the work you have already done, on a schedule you can plan around.
Profitability & Owner Comp
Find out what the firm really earns and what you should actually pay yourself.
Practice Management Optimization
Make the software you already pay for finally do the work you bought it for.
Why a Tampa base matters
Plenty of the work happens by video and shared documents, and that is by design. But there is something different about being able to sit across the table from the person who runs your firm. For a first conversation, a hard planning session, or the moment you need to talk through the numbers in the same room, being in Tampa means I can be there.
It also means I know this market. The pressures on a Tampa Bay firm, the talent competition, the cost of growing too fast, the way local referral networks actually work, are not abstractions to me. They are the conditions I work in.
One on one, always
No cohorts. No masterminds. No memberships. Your firm is the engagement, and the person doing the work is the person you hired. When you call, you get me.
(813) 340-9569Let's talk about your Tampa firm.
One conversation about what is working, what is not, and whether I am the right person to help. No script, no sales team, just me.