{"id":101970,"date":"2025-01-28T00:51:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T08:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/01\/28\/prisoners-dilemma-why-running-a-law-firm-requires-a-unique-mindset-2\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T00:51:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T08:51:50","slug":"prisoners-dilemma-why-running-a-law-firm-requires-a-unique-mindset-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/01\/28\/prisoners-dilemma-why-running-a-law-firm-requires-a-unique-mindset-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Prisoner\u2019s Dilemma: Why Running A Law Firm Requires A Unique Mindset"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you ever sit down, watch \u201cShawshank Redemption,\u201d and think to yourself: <\/span><\/p>\n

There are real lessons in here for how I should manage my law firm?<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, if you haven\u2019t, <\/span>An Ruda<\/span><\/a> of <\/span>Bartko <\/span><\/a>sure has.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

The managing partner of a midsize San Francisco law firm makes her Non-Eventcast debut, in what may be our most colorful episode ever. She talks with host Jared Correia all about her creative management principles.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

We begin by asking An what she would do if she went to prison (1:13), and how her identification of prison archetypes are tied to how she runs her law firm (3:12), (6:37).\u00a0 (You thought we were kidding?)\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

An next discussed how she promotes inclusion with the firm (9:31), with a focus on making genuine investments in the people she works with (13:39).\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

After that, An talked over how she mentors young lawyers (17:10) \u2014 sometimes by pushing them out of the \u201cnest\u201d (18:50) \u2014 along with how she has embraced the hiring of non-lawyers for specific roles within the firm, including how she brings on tech-experienced staff for that purpose (22:19).\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

An next relayed how she adopted and socialized performance metrics within the law firm (28:19), and how that transparent approach has increased profitability (34:56).\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

An and Jared finished up by covering how An strives to generate non-legal services revenue (44:00), by investing in real estate (39:56) and legal tech (48:10).<\/span><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re looking for a completely unique viewpoint on law firm management, well, you\u2019ve found it. Just make you\u2019ve got your shiv ready \u2026\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jared Correia<\/a>, a consultant and legal technology expert, is the host of the Non-Eventcast, the featured podcast of the Above the Law Non-Event for Tech-Perplexed Lawyers.<\/i><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The post Prisoner\u2019s Dilemma: Why Running A Law Firm Requires A Unique Mindset<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Close-upDid you ever sit down, watch \u201cShawshank Redemption,\u201d and think to yourself: There are real lessons in here for how I should manage my law firm?<\/p>\n

Well, if you haven\u2019t, An Ruda<\/a> of Bartko <\/a>sure has.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

The managing partner of a midsize San Francisco law firm makes her Non-Eventcast debut, in what may be our most colorful episode ever. She talks with host Jared Correia all about her creative management principles.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

We begin by asking An what she would do if she went to prison (1:13), and how her identification of prison archetypes are tied to how she runs her law firm (3:12), (6:37).\u00a0 (You thought we were kidding?)\u00a0 <\/p>\n

An next discussed how she promotes inclusion with the firm (9:31), with a focus on making genuine investments in the people she works with (13:39).\u00a0 <\/p>\n

After that, An talked over how she mentors young lawyers (17:10) \u2014 sometimes by pushing them out of the \u201cnest\u201d (18:50) \u2014 along with how she has embraced the hiring of non-lawyers for specific roles within the firm, including how she brings on tech-experienced staff for that purpose (22:19).\u00a0 <\/p>\n

An next relayed how she adopted and socialized performance metrics within the law firm (28:19), and how that transparent approach has increased profitability (34:56).\u00a0 <\/p>\n

An and Jared finished up by covering how An strives to generate non-legal services revenue (44:00), by investing in real estate (39:56) and legal tech (48:10).<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re looking for a completely unique viewpoint on law firm management, well, you\u2019ve found it. Just make you\u2019ve got your shiv ready \u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Jared Correia<\/a>, a consultant and legal technology expert, is the host of the Non-Eventcast, the featured podcast of the Above the Law Non-Event for Tech-Perplexed Lawyers.<\/i><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did you ever sit down, watch \u201cShawshank Redemption,\u201d and think to yourself: There are real lessons in here for how I should manage my law firm? Well, if you haven\u2019t, An Ruda of Bartko sure has.\u00a0 The managing partner of a midsize San Francisco law firm makes her Non-Eventcast debut, in what may be our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":101943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2098577832-Wn1TGB-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1920&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}