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When You Need To Build Out a System with Dorna Moini

Apr 18, 2023

22:59

Building a new business or shifting to a new business model? How do you get started? How can you make the processes easier? How can technology help small law firm owners?

In today’s episode Jim and Tyson are talking to Dorna, CEO and founder of Gavel.io, a no-code platform for building document automation and client facing legal products.

Prior to starting Gavel, Dorna was a litigator at Sidley Austin. There in her pro bono practice, she worked with legal aid organizations to build a web application for domestic violence survivors to complete and file their paperwork, which led to the idea for Gavel. And the rest they say - is history.

Listen in.

01:48 Leaving the law firm life

05:10 Tech start up process is a lot like starting your own law firm

06:57 When you might need to build out a system

09:30 Use cases examples — including horse law?

11:40 What most lawyers don’t understand about what is coming …

13:20 The way we work is going to change

15:40 How can technology help small law firm owners disrupt?

18:07 How Dorna spends her days wearing all the different hats

Jim’s Hack: Using an app called Streaks that allows you to put in 24 different things that you want to keep track of daily. You can set up a timer for everything and have fun tracking your progress.

Dorna’s Tip: Have the motto (for your startup) of: think big, start small and iterate rapidly.

Tyson’s Tip: Jason Selk released a new app called Level Up Game Plan that works in your browser to help you learn and implement Jason’s 3 minute and 40 second, cognitive -science-based daily ritual to live a more purposeful life.

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