1. How to Take Control of Your Firm's Finances - With Leah Miller Ken Hardison 30:21

Welcome to episode 330 of Grow Your Law Firm, hosted by Ken Hardison. In this episode, Ken sits down with Leah Miller, founder and CEO of Firmly Profits. Leah brings over a decade of experience as a firm administrator and CFO in a personal injury law firm, and now helps law firm owners across the country gain clarity and control over their finances through fractional CFO services. The conversation dives into what a CFO actually does for a law firm and why so many firms struggle with understanding their numbers. Leah explains the difference between a bookkeeper, CPA, financial advisor, and CFO, and why each plays a distinct role. She also shares how law firm owners can use financial data to make smarter operational decisions, improve cash flow, and build a roadmap for growth. What you’ll learn in this episode:

  1. What a CFO Actually Does – The difference between a bookkeeper, CPA, financial advisor, and CFO – Why a CFO focuses on growth strategy and future planning
  2. How to Understand Your Financials – Why most law firm owners don’t fully understand their P&L – How to use percentages of revenue to evaluate performance
  3. Stabilizing Cash Flow in Contingency Firms – Why cash flow does not have to be feast or famine – How to use case data and trends to create predictable revenue
  4. Turning Data Into Decisions – How financial data reveals operational problems and opportunities – Why improving operations can increase profitability without more cases
  5. Planning for Growth with Confidence – How to forecast revenue and know when to hire or scale – Why consistent financial review leads to long-term success

Resources: Website: firmlyprofits.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/leahlnmfinancial Facebook: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091343407958 Instagram: instagram.com/leah_lnm_financial Additional Resources: https://www.pilmma.org/the-mastermind-effect https://www.pilmma.org/resources https://www.pilmma.org/mastermind https://www.pilmma.org/events/super-summit DISCOUNT CODE: 26SSGROW

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Ken Hardison, is known as the “Millionaire Maker” for a reason- having helped lawyers across the country double, triple, or quadruple their law practices and income, he brings to law firm owners the insights, knowledge, and critical strategies of Legal Marketing and Management that can only be learned in the trenches of real law firm success.

With over 30 years of legal experience, Ken has personally grown and sold two seven-figure law firms and has shared his knowledge and experience with attorneys, helping them experience exponential growth, increased profits, and ethical market preeminence.

With a passion and deep understanding of both grassroots and cutting-edged online legal marketing strategies, Ken is committed to helping lawyers experience greater levels of financial success, freedom, and personal satisfaction- the kind that comes from building an ethical and exceptional law practice. Focusing on the practical and the proven, rather than the cerebral, Ken guides lawyers through the steps needed to build the law practice many lawyers have only dreamed possible.

Ken is the Founder of PILMMA, Personal Injury Lawyer Marketing and Management Association, dedicated to helping lawyers learn the critical strategies to success. As a trusted advisor, consultant, coach, and Mastermind mentor, Ken has coached lawyers to greater success time and time again.

PILMMA’s powerful live and virtual events, such as the ever-popular Law Firm Growth Super Summits and Internet Domination Boot Camps have helped hundreds of lawyers gain the insights and strategies they need to propel their firms forward to greater success and exponential results and to stay current on the latest legal management and marketing strategies, such as leveraging SEO, PPC, PPL, Social Media, etc.

Ken is the author of numerous best-selling books such as Systematic Marketing, Under Promise, Over Deliver, and his latest book, Powerful Online Legal Marketing. He’s known for his practical and engaging style of taking the complicated world of legal marketing and management and giving clarity and step-by-step guides that any lawyer can implement to experience real results, greater profits, transformational growth, and heightened success.