How To Become an Exceptional Lawyer feat. Marco Brown

Marco Brown earns a lot of money and enjoys being a lawyer. But
the truth is, Marco didn’t become an exceptional lawyer until he
forced clients to pay for the exceptional work completed by his
law firm. In Episode 92, Marco Brown discusses the power of
communication and why he uses money to create an exceptional law
firm.





What Can You Do With a Law Degree


Young lawyers need to understand that the most important people
you will ever have in your legal practice are not the judges;
they're not the partner who are over you. No, it's your
paralegal. They're the people below you on the ladder, right? So
you're a paralegal. You take care of your paralegal before you
take care of anybody else because your paralegal makes your life
10 times easier or 10 times harder. 



‍The Power of Being a Lawyer


And people will say, child alienation does not exist. I'm like,
no, child alienation exists in literally every divorce because
you are alienating the child from the other parent, one, by
divorcing them, and then two, by your attitude toward that
parent.


It just happens. It's the minimization of the alienation that's
important. You wanna minimize that as much as humanly possible.
So that's on the parent side. But there's only so much we can do
as attorneys, but we can do a lot. So when we get into a case and
decide, we have this culture as a firm. We get into a case, and
we are going to go to mediation, we are gonna go to negotiation,
we are gonna get these things done with a minimum amount of
litigiousness possible.


The minimum amount of animosity and fighting as we can. Now if we
have to, if we are forced to go to court and put boxing gloves on
and punch people in the face, that is exactly what we will do
because we are paid to do that thing and it is necessary in about
5%, maybe 10% of cases. But it is not in a vast majority of
cases. So what we can do as attorneys is really lower that
temperature, lower the animosity, not be litigious.


Lawyers Getting Paid for Being Exceptional


They're projecting themselves out there. They're projecting their
inability to be good with money and make money onto others. I can
tell you as somebody that does very well in family law by serving
their clients exceptionally well; there's a lot of money to be
made and a lot of satisfaction in helping people through the
hardest time in their life. Now, the other portion of this is to
give it a chance. That's really what I'm saying.


But the other portion is you must have the right attitude. You
have to be able to disconnect yourself emotionally from your
clients and their problems, okay? Not my circus, not my monkeys.
We say it all the time here in the office. You have to be able to
do that. If you cannot do that as a human being on a general
level, then please do not go into family law because it will tear
your soul up inside. You will never be able to go home and put it
in the box.


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Contact Marco Brown


Marco Brown is licensed to practice law in Utah. Learn more about
Marco Brown:  


TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@divorceattorney


Website: https://www.brownfamilylaw.com/


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