{"id":3862,"date":"2025-01-25T08:01:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T08:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/was-it-ever-a-profession-a-look-at-the-history-of-law-firms-as-a-business-with-rjon-robins\/"},"modified":"2025-01-25T08:01:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T08:01:34","slug":"was-it-ever-a-profession-a-look-at-the-history-of-law-firms-as-a-business-with-rjon-robins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/was-it-ever-a-profession-a-look-at-the-history-of-law-firms-as-a-business-with-rjon-robins\/","title":{"rendered":"Was It Ever A Profession? A Look at the History of Law Firms as a Business with RJon Robins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Embed Player\" src=\"https:\/\/play.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/34996685\/height\/192\/theme\/modern\/size\/large\/thumbnail\/yes\/custom-color\/2751c9\/time-start\/00:00:00\/playlist-height\/200\/direction\/backward\/download\/yes\/font-color\/f0f2f8\" height=\"192\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" oallowfullscreen=\"true\" msallowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border: none;\"><\/iframe><br \/>RJon Robins has been helping smaller law firms with the business end of the legal profession for over 25 years. His company, appropriately named How To Manage a Small Law Firm, puts smaller shops in touch with business professionals schooled in how to make boutique firms profitable. He works with over a thousand firms. He also wrote a book on the subject called \u201cProfit First for Lawyers: Transform Your Law Firm from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>Robins and Legal Speak\u2019s Patrick Smith discuss the concept of the \u2018law firms as a business\u2019, or, when the profession turned into a business. But maybe it always was.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>Robins and Smith discuss the history of the law firm apparatus, and in Robins contention, that successful law firms have always been run as a business, not a club.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RJon Robins has been helping smaller law firms with the business end of the legal profession for over 25 years. His company, appropriately named How To Manage a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[254,191,1780,153,4410,4411,4412],"class_list":["post-3862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-business","tag-firms","tag-history","tag-law","tag-profession","tag-rjon","tag-robins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}