If you’re planning to grow your law firm, it’s important to get your marketing right. One of the most common questions law firm owners face is whether to hire an outside agency or build an in-house marketing team. Both options have benefits and trade-offs, and the right choice often depends on the stage of your business and your long-term goals. The Challenges of Early-Stage Marketing In the early Read More
How to Make Your First Hire (Without Having Your Sh*t Together)
🎙Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts! 🧠Think you need to “have it all together” before hiring help? Think again. In this episode, we tackle the mental and financial roadblocks holding lawyers back from making their first hire—especially when it comes to executive assistants. If you're stuck doing low-dollar tasks and wondering why your growth has plateaued, this one’s a Read More
The Hire That Separates Struggling Firms from Thriving Ones
🎙Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts! 💸 Most law firm owners are stuck doing the one task that drains their time and delays their income—because they haven’t made this critical hire. In this episode, Brett Trembly explains why a full-time billing person isn’t a luxury—it’s a growth multiplier. From emotional detachment to consistency in collections, he lays out exactly Read More
The Best Hiring Process You’ve Never Heard Of
🎙Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts! 🚀 Most law firms are hiring the wrong way—and it's costing them time, money, and sanity. In this episode, Brett Trembly reveals a hiring process that flips the script: repel 90% of applicants to find the perfect fit faster. No fluff, no resume worship—just real strategies that work. If you’re tired of staff who talk a good game but Read More
How Your New Hires Can Become Nightmares
🎙Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts! 📞 Hiring new team members can feel like a leap of faith—but without the right training system, that leap can turn into a crash landing. In this episode, Brett Trembly joins Danny Decker to unpack the real reason so many hires don’t work out: it’s not about finding “the one”—it’s about building them into it. Learn why consistent Read More
Hire Someone Smarter Than You. Thank Me Later.
🎙Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts! 🚀 Are you still hiring based on who you can afford—not who can actually move the needle? In this powerful conversation, Brett Trembly shares the hiring mindset shift that helped him scale faster, make more money, and get his time back. From mentors to money fears, he breaks down why the smartest decision you can make is to not be the Read More
Why Every Small Firm Needs a Billing Assistant—ASAP
🎙Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts! 🧾 Are you still chasing down invoices, discounting your fees out of guilt, or retroactively guessing your billable hours? In this eye-opening episode, Brett Trembly explains how hiring a billing assistant changed everything for his law firm—and why it might be the smartest move a small firm owner can make. From underbilling to Read More
You Didn’t Build a Business—You Bought Yourself a Job
🎙Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts! 🚨 If your law firm shuts down when you take a vacation, you haven’t built a business—you’ve built a job. In this episode, Brett Trembly joins Danny Decker to unpack the mindset shift that took him from burnout to building a firm that runs without him. They explore how hustle culture traps lawyers into glorifying overwork, why “doing Read More
Hiring as a True Solo—What I Wish I Knew Sooner
🎙Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts! 💼 Making your first hire as a true solo isn’t just possible—it might be the smartest move you’ll ever make. In this episode, Brett Trembly of Get Staffed Up and Trembly Law shares how a $10/hour law student helped him double his revenue and triple his take-home pay. He and host Danny Decker unpack the mindset blocks solo lawyers face Read More
