Brooke Lively | If you want to build a bigger, more profitable firm, make sure your financial systems are ready to scale.

Brooke Lively | When your firm isn’t growing fast enough, focus first on these five areas.

Brooke Lively | We analyzed eight offers and found one consistent thing. Not one of them was going to be profitable to the firm.

Brooke Lively | As your firm grows, the way you look at your people and overhead starts to morph. Here are four things that get moved into your overhead category.

Brooke Lively | We see it all the time — the more law firms grow, the less profitable they become.

Keeping certain employee personality types can cost you, even if they perform well. Has your law firm hired a puppy or a terrorist?

Michael Rynowecer | Revelations from the Annual BTI Practice Outlook report.

Brooke Lively | A Financial Breakdown for Recruiting and Hiring a New Attorney (Holy Cow!)

Michael Rynowecer | Demand is broad and deep for outside counsel. Revelations from BTI's 19th Annual Survey of Top Legal Officers.

Most small and solo law firms are working with financial statements that don’t give them the information they need to make informed business decisions. Here's a sample P&L for a law firm that looks like what I typically see.