Keri Sicard: Building Your Law Practice Within Your Dream Life

<p><strong>In this episode, Steve Fretzin and Keri Sicard discuss:</strong></p><ul><li>Creating a truly virtual IP firm. </li><li>Pitfalls of the current law firm model. </li><li>Promoting collaboration (even through a commission model). </li><li>Connecting and building culture in a virtual environment. </li></ul><p> </p><p><strong>Key Takeaways:</strong></p><ul><li>The partnership law model was created in the early part of the 1900s. The world has shifted drastically in the last 100 years, but the law industry has not. </li><li>Breaking the traditional law model format allows you to increase the attorneys take home from each of the cases. </li><li>There are ways to connect and be together as a team without being in the same place and in the same office. </li><li>Find your own happiness. That will look different for everyone, so don’t take your cues based on what someone else finds joy and fulfillment in. </li></ul><p> </p><p><i><strong>"There are more people, like me, that don't care about being partner. They just don't want to have to work their life away. I would go five days in a row without seeing my kids when they were two, four, and six. And I don't ever want anyone to have to ever do that." </strong></i><strong>—  Keri Sicard</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>Episode References: </strong></p><p>LawPay: <a href="https://www.lawpay.com/">https://www.lawpay.com/</a></p><p>Book: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Unfu-Yourself-Your-Head-into/dp/0062803832">Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life by Gary John Bishop</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Connect with Keri Sicard:  </strong></p><p>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/keri-sicard/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/keri-sicard/</a></p><p>Website: <a href="https://virtualipllc.com/">https://virtualipllc.com/</a></p><p>Email: <a href="mailto:kes@virtualipllc.com">kes@virtualipllc.com</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Thank you to our Sponsors!</strong></p><p>Legalese Marketing: <a href="https://legaleasemarketing.com/">https://legaleasemarketing.com/</a