I’ve spent over 20 years coaching founders and leaders of small and mid-size law firms, and I’ve observed four common truths:
- You are inspired. You want to take the best pieces of your knowledge, skills and experience to create and grow “better” law firms.
- Your platform has the potential to excel. With direct influence over your firm’s direction, strategy and culture, including hiring, investment and innovation decisions, you are nimble and well-positioned to flourish.
- Talent is tricky. Attracting people in a competitive and noisy market, then investing the time, energy and resources to train, develop and manage them … and then having them leave … is frustrating.
- The Admin Shuffle is exhausting! Constantly dealing with management, operational and financial issues is stressful, and erodes your ability to focus on firm-building priorities and your own client work.
And firm profitability takes a hit when the partners are forced to spend big chunks of time juggling administrative and management challenges.
While it is easy to spot these commonalities, the challenges generally can’t be resolved in a few one-on-one coaching sessions.
A further complication is that accessible support and resources are extremely limited, and the few tools that do exist are generally made for larger firms with different issues, priorities and budgets.
Feeling my clients’ frustration and wanting to do more to support them, I reached into my network and have collaborated with some trusted colleagues to create a better solution.
Introducing the Flourishing Law Centre!
The Flourishing Law Centre is a membership ecosystem that combines the shared knowledge of peer small-to-mid-size law firms, the expertise of experienced leadership and management coaches and consultants, and a collection of articles, resources and training programs created specifically for smaller firms.
By leveraging the knowledge and experience of this community, law firm leaders are empowered to overcome their management challenges and to reinvest their liberated time and energy in leading their teams, practicing their craft, and delivering best outcomes to their clients. All of which lead to increased profitability and greater enjoyment of legal practice. Exactly what inspired you as law firm founders and leaders in the first place!
Annual FLC Membership Includes:
- Education sessions (live and recorded) providing clear and actionable how-to guides to address common law firm challenges. The 2024/25 curriculum will be developed in consultation with founding members of the Flourishing Law Centre to ensure topics align with member needs.
- Access to our online portal which includes recordings, articles, templates and other knowledge resources.
- Regular online community gatherings for Q&A and discussion with your peer firms.
- “How they did it” sessions – members of your community share how they tackled a common problem, what worked well for them and what they learned.
- Annual in-person mastermind event in Victoria.
- Ability to access Allison Wolf or other members of the Flourishing Law Centre team for coaching or consulting services at a 15% discount.
- A community directory.
For Founding Members Only
As a founding member of the Flourishing Law Centre, you will also receive six hours of coaching / consulting services each year with coaches or consultants from The Flourishing Law Centre and Lawyer Coach Teams. This privilege will be offered each year your firm renews its membership.
You will also lock in the price of membership at the current level for three years. (Note: If you firm grows or shrinks in size you will pay the price for the appropriate tier at the level set in 2024.)
Plus – Training for your people:
We recognize there are many topics where your team (support staff and lawyers) could use training, beyond the legal education provided by BC CLE and similar programs. Each year, we hold six virtual training events for our member firms:
- The business of law – fundamentals
- Top marketing and business development strategies for lawyers
- The art of giving and receiving feedback
- Handling difficult conversations with clients and colleagues
- Practice management fundamentals
- Building robust timekeeping and billing habits
These events are held live and are also available to registrants as recordings following the event. Many of these sessions will also qualify for lawyers’ annual required CLE credits.
Each year we will poll our members and new topics will be introduced as needed.
Founding Members Investment
To make the Flourishing Law Centre accessible to both mid-sized and small(ish) law firms we have established a tiered pricing structure based on the number of lawyers.
Tier |
Annual Investment (plus GST) |
|---|---|
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Firms with 1 to 5 lawyers
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$7,950 a year or $795 a month |
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Firms with 6 to 25 lawyers
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$9,970 a year or $997/month |
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Firms with over 25 lawyers
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Call for pricing |
Value of Membership
Our goal with the Flourishing Law Centre is make sure that each member firm receives excellent value for their membership. We do this by providing a strong (and growing) base of shared resources and learning opportunities on the topics of greatest interest to our members, and then adding flexible individual coaching and advisory options that each firm can use to best address their specific needs.
Here’s a summary of the resources and associated dollar value of all the embedded benefits of your membership:
Benefit |
Number |
Value |
|---|---|---|
| Education sessions | 9 sessions | $18,000 |
| Q&A mastermind sessions | 6 sessions | $9,000 |
| Access to LTC library of articles, templates, videos and recordings | Growing all the time | $7,500 |
| Complimentary registration for TLC training programs for all staff and lawyers (some CPD accredited) | 6 sessions | $12,000+ |
| Annual retreat | Per attendee | $2500 |
| Six hours of personalized coaching or advisory services from experienced legal industry professionals | 6 hours | $3000 |
| Discount of 15% on advisory services | – | From $56 to $75 off hourly rates for advisory services |
|
Total
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$52,000+ |
Plus the additional value of being part of an engaged network of progressive small-to-mid size Canadian law firms for referrals, peer learning and knowledge sharing.
FAQ
- Each membership is valid for up to three members of each firm. These are the Designated Flourishing Law Centre members.
- Designated members can attend all events and share the one-to-one coaching and consulting hours. The one-to-one sessions can be flexibly used for sessions with Allison, Carina, or other members of the Flourishing Law Centre (including an HR professional and an Associate Training and Development professional) or members of The Lawyer Coach team.
- The virtual training events are available to all lawyers and support staff at your firm.
