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Adding 13 Employees in the Pandemic with Elise Buie

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Like most other businesses, law firms did not see the pandemic coming. Many law practices were forced to cut back on expenses, leaving so many paralegals, associates, and other legal professionals  jobless. With everything that’s going on, growing your business sometimes sounds all too hopeless!

While increasing your employee headcount amidst a pandemic sounds counterintuitive, some enterprising practice owners have been able to use it as an opportunity to scale. So what can you do to ensure your practice’s growth even in the heat of a global crisis?

We’ll find out today as Elise Buie, Founder of Elise Buie Family Law Group, shares with us how her big shift into the remote workspace in 2015 made a compounding effect on her practice 5 years later. We also talk about the importance of getting the right people to work with as well as the importance of building rapport in a remote setting.

Don’t let a crisis go to waste. Tune in to this episode!


We’ll be talking about:
  1. Starting a virtual law firm before it even became a thing [00:57]
  2. Scaling a business in the midst of a pandemic through systems and teamwork [04:04]
  3. Finding the right people to work with [07:04]
  4. Has the demand for Family Law changed during the pandemic? [09:24]
  5. Putting solutions at the front and center to create a positive impact on her practice [12:59]
  6. How systems have further improved her law firm’s process [15:34]
  7. Going completely remote since 2015 [19:20]
  8. What Elise uses for employee assessments [22:04]
  9. Building rapport and maintaining culture with employees working remotely [23:39]
  10. Elise’s inspiration on how she became a great leader [30:01]
  11. Elise’s advice to law business startups [34:05]
About Our Guest:

Being in the law business for more than 5 years, Elise Buie is continually advocating for children’s best interest in high-conflict divorce situations. She is the owner of the Elise Buie Family Law Group based in the Greater Seattle Area. Her decision to go virtual when she started her practice has proved to be a great one and she has since continued to scale her business, helping both paralegals and clients along the way.

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