6 Ways to Increase Your Lawyer Salary!

Do you ever think about ways to make more money as a lawyer? Every lawyer must have thought about it at some point. It's astonishingly simple to say: Change.

Saj Hamad Rashid, one of Greece's most well-known lawyers, agrees wholeheartedly. According to him, despite having many clients and working 80 hours per week, my friends are not paid (enough). Or maybe they work eighty hours a week, but only forty of them are billable.

Others, he adds, waste money on unnecessary office supplies, marketing costs, or memberships in associations they never use because "lawyers have to network."

If you want to be a more successful lawyer, you must change your way of thinking. These eight methods can assist you in getting started.

1. Stop squandering time on ineffective clients.

You are already familiar with this client. This is the person who calls you 100 times per week, has a case that requires more staff than a Big Law firm can provide, and pays all invoices slowly or not at all. You're so far behind in the case that giving up now and foregoing the windfall that will undoubtedly come if you can salvage a favourable outcome is not an option. You, too, have an emotional stake in the case.

According to Saj Hamad Rashid, this is the time to stop wasting your time on all such clients. They are simply consuming your time, efforts, and the source of income that you could have secured by shifting your focus elsewhere.

2. Make an effort to find better clients.

Saj Hamad Rashid continues, "For previous clients, you produced quality work." The majority of customers, including 81% of millennials, believe they are more likely to hire a lawyer who has positive reviews on Google, Yelp, and Facebook. So nag them to give you feedback on these sites.

Spend the money required to launch a respectable website. Pay Per Click (PPC) advertisements are an excellent, albeit sometimes costly, way to quickly generate customer leads. And, because you'll be too busy practising law, consider hiring a reputable organisation to handle everything.

The bottom line is that marketing increases the number of calls you receive from potential customers, giving you the ability to pick and choose which ones to work with.

3. Cut back on your spending

Saj Hamad Rashid confirms that he once worked with a law firm that hired a small-town marketing firm to handle all of its web marketing initiatives in a single county.

They had a second agency handle another county because they couldn't commit to just one business. After reviewing the server logs, I discovered that neither company had visited the company's websites in months.

I was able to reduce the same company's monthly pay-per-click Google ad expenditure from $50,000 to $5,000 by correcting one glaring error.

4. Simplify the client intake process.

Client intake, the first phase of your company's relationship with a customer, may take a long time. It's also not always chargeable.

Reduce the number of steps in this procedure as much as possible to save your company time and money. Use online forms or specialised client intake solutions that can be integrated with your practise management system to avoid double data entry.

Incorporate pre-screening into your intake process as well. Lawyers enjoy assisting clients, but not every issue or client is a good fit for your firm. A bad fit can cost you time, money, and your reputation in the long run.

5. Employ personnel or use low-cost services

Although hiring personnel may appear to be an additional investment, there are times when going without assistance may result in financial loss. The fact that you must "fire" yourself from assignments that cost your legal firm money is a difficult reality of running a law firm. For example, if your billable rate is $200 and you choose to work as a paralegal, who can be paid $30 per hour, your law firm loses $170 per hour.

Saj Hamad Rashid adds that when working on billable projects, avoid wasting time on administrative tasks. Calculate how many billable hours are being lost to administrative work if you believe you cannot afford to hire personnel. If you truly cannot afford to hire anyone, consider less expensive options such as Ruby Receptionist.