Are You the Bottleneck in Your Own Law Firm?
6 questions. 2 minutes. Find out exactly which pattern is keeping your firm stuck — and what to fix first.
Why this matters
Most law firm growth problems aren't marketing problems. They're leverage problems. And the lawyer is usually the one in the way — not because they're doing something wrong, but because nobody showed them how to get out of the way.
What you'll get for completing the survey
- Your attorney bottleneck archetype — instantly revealed
- A personalised breakdown of what's keeping you stuck
- The one thing to fix first (specific to your profile)
- Your results emailed to you for reference
Q1
When something needs a decision in your firm, what usually happens?
Be honest — pick the one that fits most often
Tap an option to continue
Takes 2 minutes. Your results appear instantly.
The Bottleneck Problem
Most law firm growth problems aren't marketing problems. They're leverage problems.
The attorney is usually the thing in the way — not because they're doing something wrong, but because nobody ever showed them how to get out of the way.
Every firm hits a ceiling. Usually it happens right around the time the attorney is at capacity — fully booked, billing hard, managing a small team, and somehow still working nights and weekends. The instinct is to hire more people or spend more on marketing. But the real problem is structural.
When the attorney is the decision-maker, the approver, the exception handler, and the top producer all at once — the firm can only grow as fast as one person can personally move. That's not a growth model. That's a job with overhead.
The four bottleneck archetypes we've identified — The Hub, The Firefighter, The Lone Wolf, and The Architect — each represent a different version of the same trap. And each one has a different way out. The assessment above identifies which one you are and tells you exactly where to start.
The Hub
The center of everything. Every approval, every decision, every review runs through you. The firm moves — but only as fast as you can process it.
The Firefighter
Reactive by design. You're great under pressure — which is why your firm keeps creating it. No two days look the same, and it's exhausting.
The Lone Wolf
A practice of one. Everything runs through you because the infrastructure to share the load simply doesn't exist yet. The path forward starts here.
The Architect
You've built something real. Systems exist, the team is there — but you're still in the weeds. True leverage is one change away.
Delegation starts with documentation
You can't delegate what only exists in your head. Every repeating task you document is a task you can hand off — permanently.
Leverage is the goal
The goal isn't to work less. It's to build a firm where your time and legal expertise are spent on things only you can do.