The concept of “family law” is relatively new in the legal profession. The family law designation only arrived in the California Bar in 1980. As of 2023, there are as many as 175,000 attorneys and other family law practitioners active in the United...
Niche Marketing in Family Law: Carving Your Path to Success
When a family law attorney looks out into the internet to check the competition, they’re apt to see a veritable ocean of family law firms, partnerships, and sole practitioners, all advertising their expertise in every aspect of family law,...
Launching Your Family Law Practice: A Guide to Year-End Planning
Year-end planning? Yes, you need to start making your business plans now. If you want your family law practice to thrive this year, you must start preparing your entire year. Any changes you want to make or new directions you want to try can be...
October is the Ghoulest Month
On November 3, 1971, the Utah Supreme Court handed down a ruling in the case of Ghost v. Ghost. At the time of the proceedings, neither Ghost nor Ghost was a ghost. It was a simple divorce proceeding, and Mrs. Ghost wanted a reversal of her divorce...
Give Up Labor for Labor Day
Labor Day became a holiday back in 1894 to celebrate the working person -- the contributions of those who labored to give everyone else free time and quality products. In more than a hundred years since then, Labor Day has become little more than...
Top Tips To Care Of Yourself This Professional Wellness Month
Professional well-being month is celebrated worldwide each June and was established to stop employee well-being from being sidelined in favour of meeting deadlines or achieving success in the professional realm. While this is important within any...
What To Do When Your Career In Law Isn’t What You Expected?
When first considering a career within the legal field, you likely looked at it through rose-tinted glasses. After all, it's a profession that is often highly sought after. It requires a high level of academic qualifications and skills and, as...
Finding Success in Owning My Own Business
Guest post by Bronwyn Kay Galloway Bronwyn joined Divorce With Dignity in October 2019 when she opened her peaceful divorce business in San Francisco. She had such an interesting and inspiring journey to get here, that we asked her to share it! It...
Free Yourself!
Do you ever think about the term “freedom” as you’re sitting in your small office or cubicle, doing the thankless and monotonous work you’ve come to expect in your daily grind? So many of us, in the legal profession, found that we were overworked,...
What are you worth?
One of the biggest challenges new entrepreneurs face is recognizing their true value, putting a figure on that, and articulating it (with confidence) to others. In this final part of the series “The Secret to Keeping Your Client Load Full,” our...