In this inspiring episode, Dave and Lisa are joined by LWP member Connie Aschenbrenner, founder of the Law Office of Constance A. Aschenbrenner, LLC in Anchorage, Alaska. Connie shares how she was greatly influenced to enter the field of law by her parents. Her mother was a special education teacher and her father was an attorney. She began to practice law in 1996 and worked in many areas. In 2013 Connie received a postcard from LWP that said, “What if You Don’t Know it All?” This inspired her to attend an LWP event that really changed the course of her practice. Within months of joining she h ..read more

Dave and Lisa are joined by LWP member Dinesh Chawla, Esq, founder of Chawla Legal Group in New Baltimore, Michigan. Dinesh shares his personal success story from his early years working and building relationships in the auto supply industry to attending law school, working as a healthcare compliance consultant and eventually opening his own practice. From 2019 until now, Dinesh has experienced some major life changes that have led to a complete change in his mindset. He is now “following the signs” toward the positive and embracing a set of inspirational words in his firm…Positivity, Motivati ..read more

Dave and Lisa are joined by LWP member Lydia York, founder of L.E. York Law in Wilmington, Delaware. Lydia is what she refers to as a second career attorney. Although she spent over half of her life doing other things, she felt called to go to law school and become an attorney. After law school, she was offered a clerkship in New Jersey and took it.  Tune in to hear Lydia’s story of her journey to success and how she helps educate her clients about Medicaid and other parts of the law using the LWP systems ..read more

In this engaging episode, Lisa and Dave shake it up a little! Instead of being joined by a guest, they spend the time exploring E-Freedom, or Entrepreneurial Freedom. Over the past 20 years, Dave has worked to create the E-Freedom structure for lawyers which allows them to live their dream, whatever that means for them. It all begins when you join. We look at your practice on the day you join from the lens of our four pillars. First, is legal knowledge. What do you know? Since a law practice is actually a business, what you know informs what you are able to offer. That’s why we start by defini ..read more

Lisa and Dave are joined by Mitchell Lansky, of the Lansky Law Firm, in Nashville, Tennessee. Mitchell has been practicing almost 40 years! He calls his journey “a little strange” in the beginning because he first got his Masters in Tax. Mitchell worked for a corporation for a few years and even ended up as the General Counsel in his early 30s – young for that seat. But he always wanted to practice estate planning. In 2014, he found that taxes no longer drove estate planning and he knew he needed to update his knowledge and skill set in order to keep helping people. In searching for where he c ..read more

Lisa and Dave welcome a special guest, attorney Candace Pollock from the firm Hahn & Pollock in Cleveland, Ohio. Before becoming an attorney, Candy was a Paralegal. After earning her J.D. she joined a firm that soon underwent a massive transformation. She had to “reinvent” herself and her career around the time she first met Dave, in 1999, when both were part of a national organization that provided training in systems and processes. Over time she built a satisfying and profitable solo practice—the model that works best for her—in the areas of estate planning, elder law, and asset protecti ..read more

Lisa and Dave are joined by David and Julie Salter, of Salter Law, in Minnesota. David and Julie are a husband and wife power team. When things got a little crazy during the pandemic, they decided to join LWP to help focus the firm on being a business as opposed to simply a law firm. When David originally took over the business, he thought he’d have enough incoming leads from referrals that he wouldn’t have to do any marketing. After a few years, and a global pandemic, it became clear that wasn’t the case. However, marketing always remained at the bottom of his list. It was an epiphany that Da ..read more

Lisa and Dave are joined by Sharon and Rob Hoskins, of Hoskins LLP, in Westbury, New York. This husband-wife team are educators at heart, and that’s what drew them to the LWP process. Sharon and Rob discuss how they made the transition and give their best advice to anyone else considering the jump – don’t be afraid. Estate planning and elder law allow you to follow your passion, help others, educate families, and make a meaningful contribution to your community. They all agree, the best part is knowing that your clients will never know what you were able to save them from experiencing. So, if ..read more

Lisa and Dave are joined by LWP Member Matthew Deliberato, Founder of the Deliberato Law Center, LLC in Independence, Ohio. Matthew “grew up in a funeral home” and served as a fourth-generation Funeral Director, so he has always been committed to helping families during difficult times. Early in his career Matthew practiced law and worked at the funeral home, which became untenable after he developed cancer in 2010. During this time, Matthew discovered LWP and the world of possibilities inherent in being an estate planning attorney. He has gone from being a true solo to partnering with another ..read more

Lisa and Dave are joined by Alay Ajnik, of Law Firm Success Group, who is dedicated to helping small law firms be successful. Alay works with attorneys who have left the “big law life” behind and are now forging their own way as the business owner of their own firm. Alay helps his clients across the country to achieve their vision through 1:1 business coaching that focuses on strategy, hiring the right people, and using solid systems. It becomes clear early in this episode how Law Firm Success Group and LWP have a lot of synergy in their approaches. Dave reviews LWP’s four pillars: legal knowl ..read more