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
Your law firm's collections rate says more about your business than revenue does. This firm hits 95-98%. Here's how.
Law firms chase money they have already earned. So Ronald shared their tight client payment policy so you can stop chasing and start getting paid.
An evergreen retainer and a no-free-work rule keep your firm's cash flow. Get paid first, chase nothing.
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How to show up in AI search isn't luck. Sterling logged 678 trailing mentions in just one month last April. Closest rival? 53. Here's the gap.
Most firms stop at attorney pages, which makes them invisible in AI search. In this episode, we break down the 4 signals we use at Sterling to earn AI citations, attract qualified clients, and stay visible where people are actually searching.
AI is the new ...
Law firm business development is the line between owners and employees. Harold's 40 years prove it.
Family law firm owners hire smart associates, watch them leave, and never learn the law firm business development that fixes the leak. Teach associates to own clients early. The rest follows.
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Duplicate title tags are tanking law firm SEO, and most owners don't realize they're competing against themselves.
Here's the on-page SEO framework Sterling Lawyers used to avoid duplicate title tags from day one and win local search traffic in family law.
Same framework that helped scale Sterling Lawyers from $0 to $18MM in family law revenue.
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It’s wild how the law firm workflow that got you to $1M is the same one trapping you there. Sharon Ramage cracked it.
If you're stuck rebuilding the same law firm processes that broke you at $1M, this episode shows you the leverage play. Stop hiring more billable staff. Start systematizing what repeats.
Sharon spent 15 years solo before rebuilding her processes, breaking the bottleneck, and scaling to...
A law firm rebrand can erase years of SEO equity overnight.
Every URL is a key in Google's database. The history of every page you've ever ranked, the authority it earned over the years, the metrics tied to it, all of that lives behind the key.
A messy law firm rebrand throws those keys away, splitting authority across pages that should be one and leaving Google with no idea where your equity went...
Virtual legal assistant programs take years to get right. We started with one in 2018. Now we run 40 across our firm.
If you're trying to scale without burning out your lawyers, this is the conversation. Real structure, real mistakes, real results from our firm.
Kelley walks through the reporting structure shift that fixed our two-team problem, the culture work behind our remote legal team, and the la...
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Family law firm SEO breaks at scale—here are the 5 systems we'd build from Day 1 if we were starting Sterling over.
We hit 400 pages, and the site groaned under its own weight. These 5 systems kept us from rebuilding everything at 3,500 pages.
Websites break on title tags, URLs, internal linking, meta descriptions, and alt text. Hygiene at 18 pag...
Laurie went from 0 to 8 attorneys and 15 employees in 7 years. Here's the real playbook for solo law firm growth — no theory, just what worked.
You'll hear how Laurie built her bench of advisors before opening day, why hiring an executive director unlocked real growth, and the delegation shift every solo law firm owner has to make.
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Your lead follow up system is quietly bleeding 48% of your revenue. We proved it at Sterling. Here's the fix.
Only 25% of consults sign on day one. 52% in week one. The other 48% walks unless you have a system built to catch them.
We ran this system at Sterling while scaling from $0 to $17M across 25 offices and 27 attorneys.
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Law firm process improvement dies when we rush it. I learned that the hard way after more than a decade of running Sterling Lawyers.
Kelley Shaw reveals the 4-bucket system we use to prioritize projects, manage backlogs, and actually finish what we start at our family law firm.
This is for the firm owners who have tons of great ideas and zero finished projects. The fix comes down to better prioritization, ...
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Law firm lead follow-up is where 75% of our revenue actually lives. Most firms never touch it.
We break down the 90-day follow-up system that reactivates unconverted leads and adds revenue your firm is currently ignoring.
We’ll go deeper on this in our upcoming webinar on May 1: “How to Revive Dead Leads: Sales Secrets of an $18M Family Law ...
Catch real insights about starting a solo law firm from Christine Lincoln's 25-year solo practice in Houston, serving family law clients.
Christine shares how attorney mentorship benefits changed her practice, why the paid consultation model filters serious clients, and the solo practice work-life balance systems she built over two decades.
She spent 40-50% of her time on solo attorney marketing strate...
Attorney consultation training fails when firms rush it. We built a 21-week system that actually works.
Learn the 5-phase consultation process that fixed our close rate and scaled Sterling to $18MM.
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Law firm leadership development is one of the toughest constraints to overcome for growth. Here's the 360 review system we use at Sterling Lawyers.
Jeff Kerlin coaches our entire leadership team at Sterling, so we'll walk you through the exact coaching framework that built our 27-attorney team.
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Here are five systematic predictions on how AI visibility will reshape family law firm client acquisition.
It's what we're watching happen in real-time with generative engine optimization, multi-platform law firm marketing, and conversational AI queries replacing traditional search behavior.
Hit with traffic drops in Q3 2025 or relying on a single platform for lead source? This episode shows how t...
Steve Messick built process documentation from day one. Five years later: 10 staff, $10M revenue target, zero chaos. Learn about his law firm knowledge management system.
Steve started his firm in June 2020 with just a paralegal. They built their process manual before hiring anyone else—fonts, IT onboarding, billing procedures, all of it documented. That's how you scale without breaking things.
Steve&ap...
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...
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