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 $20M with 30 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
Managing client expectations is the referral system most family law firms in the US ignore.
Rural attorney Erin Melling shows why it's actually your best marketing in this episode.
Because when everybody in town knows your clients, every consult either builds your reputation or quietly burns it.
Overpromising, going silent, dodging the fee talk. Fix those three and clients trust you, refer their friends, an...
Map pack ranking isn't a checklist. It's your market. Here's how family law firms in the US rate it before spending a dollar.
Stop guessing why leads stall. Rate your reach, market tier, and income mix, then beat your top competitor's SoLV by 10% before you add an office.
Competition sets your Google Maps reach, so max out your hub with LSAs, brand campaigns, and SEO content before you open a second office. ...
Google Business Profile for lawyers won't fix a market you never measured. Here's how firms in the US measure map reach.
Run a geogrid report, check your share of local voice, then audit the demographics underneath. A convenient office move can tank leads inside 90 days. Fix data aggregators and citations first.
Our St. Charles office went from 0% to 100% local map visibility on its core divorce search in 2026. ...
Law firm strategic planning in the US often means a 5-year plan. Krista grew family law from 0 to 3 lawyers without one.
If your growth plan lives in a binder nobody opens, this shows how monthly pivots, shared staff, and real teamwork keep a practice growing.
A multi-practice law firm runs on culture, not org charts. Krista's shared paralegal model kills turf wars. Plus, how she mentors associate attorneys to own the...
Location pages SEO is how Sterling Lawyers ranks in Google's top 3 across 30 offices in the US. Most firms expand and tank.
Open a second office the wrong way and both locations lose leads. Here's the sequence that protects your first market and grows the next one.
Single and multi-location sites need different schema markup, so build location hubs first, then flip. Max out each market before you expand. Plan on 3 yea...
Buying a law firm in the US isn't just for private equity. We just closed our first one. Here's exactly how it went down.
From a BizBuySell listing to LOI, due diligence, and closing day, plus how we kept the whole team after our first law firm acquisition closed.
We settled asset vs. stock purchase up front, skipped the seller earn-out, and built trust instead of fighting over redlines.
Sterling Lawyers grows 23...
Family law firm local SEO in the US usually runs the same checklist in every market. Same work, wildly different results. Here's why.
About half of our clients from digital marketing come through local search. Your market sets how far Google shows you and what it takes to win there.
We unpack law firm office location strategy, the 5 market tiers, and why Google reviews for lawyers move Google Maps ranking in this epis...
Legal intake training is where family law firms in the US lose consults they already paid for in marketing. Here's the fix.
Learn how to hire, train, and coach intake staff who book paid consults consistently, so your leads turn into clients instead of lost calls.
Intake manager Mark Oelke shares our 7-week intake specialist onboarding, whisper coaching, and intake quality assurance. He explains why he hires for custo...
Small law firm management in the US doesn't have to mean more hires.
Here’s how Justin Crozier runs his family law firm with his wife, managing an average of 75 cases, keeping clients well served, and staying available for their kids instead of being chained to a desk.
He tried hiring a contract attorney and realized he didn't want to manage people. So now his wife runs drafting and trust account management, and...
Law firm succession planning in the US is something most owners put off until it's too late.
This episode shows how promoting an associate to partner beats a merger, and how to build a partnership track before your best lawyer walks.
We cover law firm ownership transition, associate retention, building a book of business, and the referral network behind it. Small firm, real plan.
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Scaling a solo practice is the hardest jump most family law attorneys in the US ever make.
Matthew Langhals went from one lawyer to three since 2021. Real numbers on law firm expenses, staffing, and the systems that made it survivable.
He ran his whole caseload on Excel. Now it's Clio, templated systems, three attorneys on one office manager, and an expense split his associates actually see.
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John Grant, founder of Agile Attorney Consulting, joins the show to break down how the Agile and Kanban methods built for software actually apply to running a law firm.
For almost 13 years he's coached law firms through Agile transformations using a two-day, in-person workshop that puts everyone in the practice — intake staff, paralegals, and senior attorneys alike — through the same diagn...
The best CRM for law firms in the US? This attorney ran on paper files for years — and I mean actual paper, alphabetized.
James runs 3 staff, a trial a week, and 3 tools. He didn't know legal CRMs existed.
Law firm automation, client intake, delegation — that's the whole scaling game.
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Legal intake best practices in the US aren't sexy, but here's the brutal truth: your lead quality is fine, your intake process isn't.
Marco Brown went from 112 unpaid case files to 16 attorneys by fixing intake conversion. You'll see the exact intake conversion rate benchmarks his firm hits every month, their client acquisition process, and why he mystery-shops competitors.
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Law firm succession planning is the thing most family law firm owners in the US put off until it's basically too late.
Brent Bowyer bought the firm he joined as a new lawyer, then grew revenue 60% in four years. Here's what the ownership transition actually cost.
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Law firm client onboarding in the US used to eat hours—now it's minutes.
Mark Chinn dropped the billable hour in 2005 and never offered it again. And 9 out of 10 clients pick his lump sum.
His AI assessment process is law firm client onboarding done properly.
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Law firm automation in the US isn't hype—it's how family law firms get 5 people's work done in 1 hour.
This is the full six-floor AI factory—from prompting to legal process automation that runs itself. Automate law firm operations, intake, and consult prep to scale without more hires.
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Most law firm AI adoption in the US stalls on floor one because owners think they need technical skills.
But the 3 basics do not need advanced technical skills: prompting, skills creation, and tools integration.
We’ll show you how in this episode.
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Building remote team culture is how this family law firm scaled to 2 states in the US. Here's what nobody tells you about it.
Bailey Vos breaks down law firm partnership advice—rainmaker vs operator—plus scaling a virtual firm and the hiring mistakes from growing too fast.
If your remote team feels disconnected and hires keep missing, this is how you build culture that actually sticks—so growth...
AI companies are very competitive right now, and choosing the best AI for lawyers in the US is difficult without wasting money on trial and error.
At Sterling Lawyers, we checked all the top AI platforms in the market. And in this episode, we break down their comparison in terms of service, professional UI, accessibility, and why Claude Enterprise wins.
We also covered law firm AI adoption tips, call auditing, and int...
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