The Sterling Family Law Show
The Sterling Family Law Show is where successful family law attorneys share the exact systems they used to build million-dollar practices. Host Jeff Hughes scaled Sterling Lawyers from zero to $17M with 27 attorneys. Co-host Tyler Dolph runs Rocket Clicks, the agency in charge of supercharging Sterling and other family law practices to success using revenue-first marketing strategies. Together, they share the playbook for building the law firm of your dreams. If you're looking to grow exponentially, generate revenue, and get good at business, this podcast is for you.
Episodes
AI search SEO is breaking family law traffic models. Rankings up, traffic down. Here's what the data shows and how to fix it.
The decoupling started in September 2024. Impressions climbing, clicks tanking. Firms with thin content, those "divorce lawyer + city" page variants, got crushed.
Firms building topical authority and pairing video with natural language content are winning AI overview c...
Managing paralegal teams isn't something most family law firms get right. We didn't either, at least not at first.
Rebecca Bargender joined us four years ago as a paralegal with zero leadership experience. Today she manages 11 paralegals, 5 virtual legal assistants in the Philippines, and 3 e-filing specialists.
This conversation walks through her training process, how she manages offshore teams t...
SEO conversion tracking for law firms comes down to one question: is your phone ringing? Here's the 5-metric system we used.
We built Sterling Lawyers by focusing on qualified lead metrics that actually moved the needle, not the vanity metrics agencies love to report.
Because the truth is if your agency is sending you reports full of impressions, clicks, and keyword rankings without connecting them to...
Law firm pricing model built around conflict billing is costing you more than you think—starting with your referrals.
Mark hit 20 employees and lost his firm's soul. He scaled back, went all in on flat rate divorces, and referrals took over. The law firm pricing model his old boss warned against was the whole game.
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The law firm intake process at most firms? Broken from word one. Here's the 4-step system that built an $18M firm.
This is the sneak peek of our upcoming webinar called “Sales Secrets of an $18M Family Law Firm.” Mary Sankey will give you an overview of our 4-Step Sales System that boosted our revenue.
We’ll reveal our QA scoring system an...
AI for law firms is already here—and most family lawyers aren't ready for it.
A $100M AI firm just got approved in Arizona to co-own law firms, and family law is next.
So here’s the 4 practical things non-techie lawyers can do right now to get comfortable with AI—no coding, no tech background required.
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Family law SEO strategy fails when you start in the wrong place. Order of operations is everything.
At Rocket Clicks, we wasted months on blogs before fixing the technical foundation.
Now we have the 90-day system that builds real lead flow, not vanity traffic. Foundation first → GBP → content architecture. Every time.
That sequence is what makes organic lead generation compound—not random content, not b...
Law firm client retention is the one thing that separates firms that survive from firms that thrive — and this episode proves it.
Peter Agostino has been running his firm for 25 years straight, and his clients keep coming back. That's not luck.
Peter breaks down how empathy during client crises creates bonds that last decades and how repeated clients asking to work with other attorneys in your firm is ...
Family law SEO has the best ROI in legal, and most firms blow it because they quit at month 6 or invest in the wrong stuff.
In this episode, we're laying out five truths about family law SEO in 2026 that most firm owners either don't know or don't want to hear. AI overviews now trigger nearly 80% of legal queries, zero-click searches are climbing, and firms that mass-produced spammy AI content got...
Growing a law firm from solo to 7 offices across Indiana — Bob Nice shares 30 years of real lessons on what actually works.
Bob went from pharmacy school to running 13 attorneys across rural Indiana. No silver bullet, no overnight success. Just decades of figuring out what breaks a firm and what builds one.
In this episode, he walked us through:
- Two partnership disasters (one where the partner literally v...
There’s no SEO vs. AI search. Your law firm needs both channels, and most agencies are only covering 25% of the work. Here's the fix.
We debunk 3 AI myths costing family law firms real clients plus the trust-first framework that fixes your visibility in both channels.
We also cover how your NAP data and off-site authority determine whether AI recommends you or skips you.
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Heather Quick went women-only and built her law firm mission statement around it. That one decision simplified her hiring culture, marketing, and growth.
When Heather told people she was pivoting her family law practice to only represent women in divorce, they thought it was a gimmick. Fifteen years later she's got 7 attorneys, 30 employees, and a firm that knows exactly who it serves.
In this episode ...
Your law firm offer letter process is broken and it's costing you the attorneys you actually want. Here's how we fixed it.
We walk through the full offer process: stakeholder debrief, in-person comp alignment, and the sign-on bonus strategy that closes salary gaps. This is where most firms lose hires they already won.
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Keaton Frieberg runs Texas Suits PLLC—a six-attorney business and real estate litigation firm in San Antonio. He launched right out of law school, merged with another firm within a year, and has built a sustainable practice.
In this Sterling Family Law Show episode, he breaks down how he built a six-attorney firm starting at 25 with no book of business. Door-knocking property managers. Speaking at investor meetups. T...
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The core values interview is the final filter that separates bucket fillers from bucket dippers. Here's how we run ours.
We send candidates a short video on our mission, vision, and values days before. They present for five minutes on how they align. The ones who wing it? Easy no.
Because bad hires are expensive. This values-based hiring proc...
Law firm client experience is everything. Todd Burnham filed bankruptcy, then built an $18M firm. Here's what he figured out.
Todd walks us through the whole journey. Starting a firm in a basement that was in foreclosure, filing personal bankruptcy, and then building one of the largest family law firms in Colorado.
Now, he runs his law firm intake like an ER triage and scaled to 30 attorneys. He hired for emotion...
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Law firm KPIs are lying to you. We tracked the wrong metrics for years—batting average instead of on-base percentage.
In this episode, we’re giving you a sneak peek of our upcoming free webinar called “How to Moneyball Your Family Law Firm”. It will reveal why most family law firms chase leads while their intake conversion rate crumbles. We’ll ...
In honor of Jessa Nicholson Goetz’s memory, we’re sharing her story about growing a law firm from solo to a team of 10. Here's what 20 years of building taught her about making that first scary hire.
Jessa started at 23 in a basement office, waitressing on weekends just to keep the lights on. Her firm now has 6-attorney with about 10 total staff. This is the real, unglamorous story of law firm growth—workin...
Your operational interview process is probably too easy. If everyone passes, you're not learning who can actually do the job.
We give candidates 12 minutes, an incomplete file, and a real crisis. The ones who ask smart questions? A-players. The ones who complain? Bucket dippers.
Learn this scenario-based interview system we use to test attorneys under real pressure before a bad hire costs you six figure...
Lawyer to business owner—that shift changed everything for Alex. Here's why working less actually made him more money.
If you're stuck doing everything yourself, Alex's 3-box test shows you what to delegate, automate, or just eliminate. You’ll also realize why 80% good enough beats perfection, and how to stop being a worker bee in your own firm.
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