Helping small law firm owners since 1999

Law Firm Management for Solo and Small Law Firm Owners

How To Manage A Small Law Firm helps law firm owners build more profitable, predictable, and easier-to-manage businesses through practical guidance, proven systems, experienced management support, and accountability.

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You know how to practice law. We help you manage the business.

Law school teaches lawyers how to practice law, but not how to consistently generate leads, improve intake, manage a team, build systems, understand financial reports, protect profit, or create a business that does not depend on the owner for everything.

How To Manage A Small Law Firm created the Successful Small Law Firm Operating System to help owners make better decisions, execute practical plans, and gain more control over their money, time, and future.

The 7 Main Parts of a Law Firm Business

  1. Marketing: Getting the right prospective clients to your door.
  2. Sales: Helping the right prospects become paying clients.
  3. Production: Delivering legal services efficiently and professionally.
  4. People: Putting the right people in the right roles and helping them succeed.
  5. Systems: Building the policies, procedures, technology, and tools the team needs.
  6. Money & Metrics: Understanding the numbers required to make better business decisions.
  7. You: Building the law firm around the life its owner actually wants.

Learn how HTM helps manage the business of a law firm.

Law firm management experience since 1999

How To Manage A Small Law Firm has helped start, manage, and grow thousands of successful small law firms. More than 100 full-time employees currently help manage more than 500 law firms across practice areas throughout the United States.

Explore the 7 Stages of Law Firm Growth or browse the small law firm resources.

Start with a law firm Diagnostic

The Diagnostic examines where the law firm is today, where the owner wants it to go, what is working, what is not, and what stands between the owner and the law firm they want to own.

Schedule a Diagnostic to identify what your law firm needs next.