Flat Fees: The Secret to a More Fulfilling Life and Practice with Brita Long
The benefits of using flat fees properly.
Description
If you’re working hourly, making plenty of money, love your work, and are well-respected within your firm, the notion of using flat fees might sound like it’s not a great fit. Everything might look perfect on paper externally, but Melissa’s guest this week is illuminating a different way of running your firm that could be a potentially beneficial next step.
Brita Long is the Amazon bestselling author and creator of The Happier Attorney. She’s on a mission to teach fellow attorneys how to harness the power of flat fees and achieve financial stability without sacrificing their precious time and energy. She’s a huge believer in the possibility of having a thriving life and practice without having to track your time or overworking, and she’s here to invite you to start imagining a flat-fee practice for yourself.
Join Melissa and Brita on this episode to discover how to use flat fees properly to charge for your legal services. Brita is highlighting why attorneys often resist the idea of using flat fees, the benefits of using flat fees, and how to identify whether you should start embracing flat fees in your practice.
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What You’ll Discover:
• How Brita started helping attorneys harness the power of flat fees.
• The benefits of using flat fees properly.
• How showing up from fear and shame makes you reactive.
• Why integrating flat fees into your practice is about more than just logistics.
• Brita’s advice for identifying whether you should shift into being a flat-fee practice.
• The dangers of using flat fees improperly.
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• The Happier Attorney by Brita Long
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