I help families and small businesses plan for the future by crafting a life and estate plan. 

Together, we’ll plan for what we know will happen (death) as well as what might happen. We’ll plan to protect assets from creditors, predators, and spenders.  We’ll maximize family harmony.

I also help individuals and families with the buying and selling of real estate as well as adoptions.

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Zach Anderson

I never wanted to be a solo lawyer running my own law practice.

Graduating from law school and passing the bar, the job market for those without guaranteed post-graduation employment was sparse. To pay the bills, I reluctantly rented an office across the hall from a law school buddy, set up a card table, and waited for the phone to ring.

During my legal career I have been a true solo, partnered with two other lawyers, was part of one of the first virtual law firms in the country, and was Of Counsel to small business law firm.

I have had to bootstrap and learn how to both practice law and run a law business on the fly. I have seen recessions, economic booms, and pandemics.

Now, in addition to running my own law practice, I help solo and small firm lawyers transform their law practices from something that causes stress and dictates their lives, to a business that provides them with the life they want. All while being a #LawyerDad to a 7-year old.

HOW I CAN HELP YOU

I offer 1:1 coaching to lawyers. I focus in the following areas:
▷ Personal transformation
▷ Law practice design
▷ Getting clients
▷ Running a law business

Looking for help getting your law practice to the next level? Send me a DM or email me at brad@newmodernlawyer.com.

Bradley Miller

I woke up this morning to a landscape covered in white and a voicemail on my phone.

School was cancelled.

But there was no panic.

Because my law practice is designed so things like this aren’t a big deal.

I’ve decided that family is an important value to me.

And not in the “work long and hard to provide for my family through the money I make” way.

(which is the mindset I had in the years after my daughter was born)

But in being there to get my daughter on and off the bus every day.

Being able to be home with her on snow days.

Being able to coach her softball teams or drive her to and from other activities.

And just generally not missing out on her childhood.

Because she is only going to be this age once, and there are no do-overs.

Now I’m not saying you need to work from home like I do or even have family as a top priority.

But I do think it is important to know what things you value, and to be intentional about designing your law practice and creating firm boundaries around those things.

If you aren’t living out your values and enjoying life, what’s the point?

#NML

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Hourly cost plus 20%.

This is what many lawyers — and many law firm consultants — mean when they say flat fees.

You estimate how long you think the work will take, multiply it by your hourly rate, and then add a 20% buffer on top of that.

First, the good:

✅ For clients, it gives them a set price up front, rather than a surprise bill at the end. This means the client can budget for the cost and also decide if the work is worth it to them before they engage with the lawyer. Knowing the fee up front takes some of the risk away from the client that the fee will get out of control. There is also incentive for the work to be done efficiently and with less over-lawyering.

✅ For the lawyer/firm, it is a “safe” step from straight hourly billing. The fee is quoted up front but there is a buffer in case the time estimate is too low. If the time estimate was high or even accurate, the firm is coming out ahead of what they would have received if billing straight hourly.

Now the bad:

❌ For clients, the fee is still tied to the effort of the lawyer and not to the value of the services to them. If the time estimate was high or even accurate, the client is paying at minimum a 20% premium for the fee certainty.

❌ For the lawyer/firm, if the work takes significantly longer than estimated frustration and resentment are likely to set in. The lawyer may start to feel the additional work is being done without compensation, leading to both the quality of the work and responsiveness of the lawyer decreasing.

Yes, using a time estimate and hourly rate is one way to come up with the amount of a flat fee.

But it is really just hourly billing in drag.

And as AI decreases the amount of time needed to be spent on most tasks, the fees are going to keep getting lower.

Great maybe for clients, not so much for lawyers.

The solution?

Price your flat fee based on the value of the services to the client, not the time you think you will spend on it.

Is this much harder to do than using your estimated hourly fee plus a buffer?

Yes.

It requires trial and error and getting better at it through experience, just like any other skill.

But that time is well spent for a pricing method that benefits both you and the client.

#NML #DitchHourly

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Sports necessarily includes a winner and a loser.

The one who gets the most (or least) points.

The one who finishes first, or who is left standing at the end of the game.

Sports are what Simon Sinek calls Finite Games.

But most of life is not a Finite Game.

The score doesn’t matter.

Just because you win doesn’t mean I lose.

The ending for all of us is the same.

Yet we still tend to treat it as such.

We compete against our neighbors for the biggest house and greenest lawn.

We compete against our colleagues for the most work done and the shiny promotion.

We even compete against ourselves, saying we aren’t good enough and that we have to keep fighting, keep hustling, keep scratching and clawing towards a goal that keeps moving away from us as quickly as we move towards it.

We’re playing the wrong game.

We aren’t in a Finite Game like chess or baseball or figure skating.

The Game of Life is an Infinite Game.

Where there are very few set rules, and the rest we make up as we go and change as they suit us.

There are no winners or losers.

There is no prize for finishing “first” or scoring the most.

The reward, the goal, the whole purpose is simply the experience of playing.

#NML

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