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How to run your law
firm from India
(with your 4-month-old)
September 8, 2016
Greg McLawsen
Managing Attorney
“People don’t want to be millionaires — they
want to experience what they believe only
millions can buy.” Tim Ferris
How to run your law firm from india (with your 4 month-old)
How to run your law firm from india (with your 4 month-old)
How to run your law firm from india (with your 4 month-old)
How to run your law firm from india (with your 4 month-old)
How to run your law firm from india (with your 4 month-old)
How to run your law firm from india (with your 4 month-old)
How to run your law firm from india (with your 4 month-old)
How to run your law firm from india (with your 4 month-old)
How I became a nomad
w w w . s o u n d i m i g r a t i o n . c o m
Homebuilding
page 12
w w w . s o u n d i m i g r a t i o n . c o m
The “problem” with this, less time for…
page 13
…this!
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How will we spend
our lives?
page 15
How to run your law firm from india (with your 4 month-old)
w w w . s o u n d i m i g r a t i o n . c o m
America’s web-based immigration law firm
page 17
We help
families build
new lives in
America
How to run your law firm from india (with your 4 month-old)
Travel hack #1:
eat street food (obviously)
Get in my belly!
Collaboration
The day begins
w w w . s o u n d i m i g r a t i o n . c o m
www.trello.com
page 24
w w w . s o u n d i m i g r a t i o n . c o m
Learn more: https://www.soundimmigration.com/agile/
page 25
Duct tape for
the cloud
w w w . s o u n d i m i g r a t i o n . c o m
Go Clio!
page 27
Travel hack #2:
don’t wait for the invitation
Communication
w w w . s o u n d i m i g r a t i o n . c o m
www.callruby.com... or walk down the hall
page 30
Never touch
mail again
Travel hack #3:
DIY restaurant menu
Production work
w w w . s o u n d i m i g r a t i o n . c o m
Head east, my friends!
outsourcing = speed
page 34
build your life, not just your firm
How to run your law firm from india (with your 4 month-old)
Thanks
धन्यवाद
@mclawsen
greg@soundimmigration.com

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How to run your law firm from india (with your 4 month-old)

Editor's Notes

  1. At a 15,300, Zero Point is literally the end of the road for Western travelers Just a stone’s through away from the Indo-Chinese border this was as far as we could go
  2. Travel in this part of India means a slow journey by jeep Through steep valleys inhabited by Tibetan/Nepalese herders
  3. Across bridges strewn with pray flags
  4. Questionable bridges
  5. And into the high country of the Himalaya
  6. Roads in this rugged landscape are in constant need of repair And are maintained by the Boarder Roads Organization Whose adorable acronym is what you would expect
  7. Bro!
  8. This trip to India was my fourth, this time to the Northeastern Pradesh of Sikkim bordering China, Nepal and Bhutan But the biggest change was our young travel companion
  9. Traveling with a 4-month-old in India is not just easy It’s 100 times more fun If I’d been Jon Bonjovi we would have received less attention Nobody cares about Bonjovi in Sikkim
  10. Today I want to share the personal story about how I came build a practice that allows me to work from Asia two months out of the year, and to steer the ship from anywhere in the world with an internet connection I’ll share four a few travel hacks around the way about eating in India
  11. I’ll start with the personal story behind what became Sound Immigration After law school I worked briefly as a ghost writer for a legal treatise, then took a judicial clerkship in Washington State In case you think I’m Mr. Fancy pants, this was a humble clerkship at a state trial court And so my wife and I began a pretty standard trudge along the path to middle class professional-dom We bought a house in the “good” part of town and started renovating Over the course of a year we took a kitchen from this disaster zone
  12. To this Meanwhile I had opened my own immigration law practice Much like the endless house projects I poured endless time in to launching and sustaining the firm At home I was the demolition guy, plumber and carpenter At work I was the marketing department, sales, C-suite… oh, and I had to practice law Any small practice attorney knows what I’m talking about here Every hour of every day was spent building the house or putting out fires at the firm
  13. And there was no time for this! (This is the Coleman/Demming route up Mt. Baker… an awesome climb) Most of all, I felt like I wasn’t in control of my own time, and really of my own life
  14. At the time I was transitioning to this new professional life I had a sad and life-changing event My father was one of the most brilliant computer programmers of his generation He worked on the first Windows platform and later build an application to transcribe musical notation In February 2010 he took his own life It’s so easy to get bogged down in the minutia Whether it’s a home or work, we lose track of the big picture We choose a job. We start a law firm. When we do this we’re deciding how we will spend this life of ours.
  15. What are the beautiful moments in your life? For me, they tend to look like this Skimming long the backwaters of some far-off place In a dirty train compartment, on a hard seat… maybe with a cup of chai, with my son on my lap Not because we’re going anywhere in particular Just to be there. Moving though this new space. With the delicious smell of spice, and wood fires, and rice paddies pouring in the open widow. My wife and I sold our house We sold or gave away most of our belongings And we moved in with my mother We both agree it was the single best decision we ever made
  16. My wife and I decided that it was important to have the flexibility to travel two months out of the year To make that a reality, I needed a business that could be operated with total control from anywhere. What came out of this is the firm we call Sound Immigration We are America’s web-based immigration law firm Our job is to help families build new lives in the United States I’ll talk later about some of things we do, but to give an idea: We are fully paperless and cloud-based Our attorneys and support staff are all decentralized. We’re one of the first immigration firms – at least in our state – to get it right with legal process outsourcing Our scaleable support team in Bangalore, India allows us to deliver work product literally overnight
  17. I’ve spoken about my love for travel But like everyone else in this room, my primary passion is to be of service to others Any one of us could quit the practice of law tomorrow and have a much easier life But we do this work because is fucking important At Sound Immigration we unite families and literally change they lives forever We are a compass for our clients during a transformative moment of their lives Well, more than a moment… takes a while
  18. Let’s now get back on the road at talk about what it looks like to run your firm from India
  19. Travel hack: eat the street food Bites are a fraction of a dollar Often safer than kitchens in higher-end restaurants that you can’t see Turn-over is (should be) very high