Delegate Now to Supercharge Your Profits

How can law firm owners bill fewer hours but make bigger profits? How can they grow their businesses with reliable team members and take well-earned breaks without worrying their firm will fall apart? The answer is effective and profitable delegation.

Delegation drives profitability more than anything else, yet few fully understand its power. It is self-evident that ten team members billing per hour is more profitable than a law firm owner billing an hour on their own, yet most law firm owners are trapped in heavy billable workloads and unknowingly greatly limit their profits. This is because – for most – at no stage has anyone shown them how to run their law firms effectively!

In Delegate Now to Supercharge Your Profits, law firm growth consultant Dan Warburton shows how skilful delegation multiplies profits for law firm owners and frees them up to do the work they enjoy. He then shows you – practically and effectively – how to build a firm that doesn’t constantly rely on you as it becomes more profitable than ever.

In this book, you will discover:

> Why delegating greatly increases profits for law firm owners.

> How to stop being the bottleneck in your firm’s profitability.

> How to build teams that are highly loyal to your firm’s success.

> How to delegate work from clients you’ve had for years while keeping their business.

> How to create chains of command that give you your time back, not take it away.

> The art of acknowledgements so that your best team members don’t want to leave your firm.

> Filled with real-world examples, case studies, and actionable guidance.

Any law firm owner worried that growing their firm means working even harder and longer hours needs to read this book. Don’t end up like most law firm owners: burned out, never fulfilling your profit potential, and harbouring regrets as you are forced to depart a firm that you’ve spent years building.

About the Author

Dan Warburton has spent more than 25 years developing and implementing advanced leadership and management strategies and helping business owners achieve new levels of success. Since 2020, Dan has specialised in guiding law firm owners on how to use delegation skills to gain extraordinary results in their firms. It is not uncommon for Dan’s clients to gain a revenue increase of more than 100% in less than a year while more than halving their workloads. In Delegate Now to Supercharge Your Profits, Dan brings those decades of expertise together in a must-read, practical book.

To learn more about Dan, and his Law Firm Owners Club, go to: https://www.danwarburton.com

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Published January 21 2025 | 9781914066498 | Paperback 160 pages | £29.99

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Testimonials

I read Dan’s book and found it insightful. It’s a game-changer for law firm leaders. Dan clearly understands how law firms work, which made his suggestions and insights more relevant than any other generic business book. I have come away with a list of actionable points that will help me improve my management of our team members. As someone who finds it hard to have difficult conversations and hold someone else accountable, I found the concrete phrases he suggested and the structure to the conversations something I can take away and use for myself to help have those conversations in a positive way, rather than have them feel like an attack. Dan’s deep understanding of law firm dynamics and actionable advice on delegation and accountability make this book an indispensable resource for any law professional looking to enhance their firm’s profitability and get their leisure time back.

Fiona Henderson (Partner at Argyll Law)

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I am very lucky that during my career I have been provided with leadership training, so I was nodding along as I read Dan’s book. Even so, I still gained some very useful insights. Often, lawyers are very bad at listening to their colleagues as they wait to speak and put their side across. This book made me reflect on how often I’ve done this myself. Now that I am conscious of it, this will further increase my ability to engage with my team effectively. In his book, Dan manages to distil what can be complex and sometimes challenging thoughts and ideas into simple and easily implementable actions. A must read for any law firm owner that feels they are not growing their firm as fast as they’d like to.

Grant Sanders (Partner at Stephen Rimmer LLP)

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As the MD of a midsize law firm, this book has made me clearly see that the power of listening and communication cannot be understated. A quick conversation across a desk is not enough; time must be specifically set aside. Also, I’ve learned that providing a safe space for people to speak their minds freely is vital to being aware of issues that need attention.

In his book, Dan uses his years of experience to guide you to see how you are being the ‘bottleneck’ in your firm’s productivity, and it has shown me that profitable delegation and ‘enabling others to effectively lead others’ is the way forward. Without doing this, staff often ‘quietly quit’ as described in the book. This knowledge has allowed me to work with leaders in my firm in a much more effective way, spending time really listening to them and understanding what motivates them to come to work each day and motivate them to achieve their dreams. As a result of practising this, I have noticed that my team now invest greater time and effort in our firm.

Though a lot of this, I’d learned already from working with Dan over the last 12 months, which has been amazing, this book is a must-read for anyone involved in a leadership or management role. It sets out clear, achievable actions and objectives that will greatly impact any workplace.

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Maxine Heppenstall (MD at Walker Foster Solicitors)

As someone with 20 years of experience as a practising lawyer in Corporate and Commercial Law, this book strikes a chord with the reality many of us law firm partners face daily in any jurisdiction around the globe.

Warburton’s strategies provide a roadmap for law firm partners who feel exhausted from carrying out large volumes of billable work to streamline operations and lead effectively, ultimately creating more time to focus on our firm’s growth while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

One key insight I gained is the importance of profitable delegation, which means handing over tasks but ensuring that the delegation leads to high work standards, greater profitability, and freedom for the firm’s leaders.

I’m also looking forward to implementing Dan’s concepts around structured and strategic delegation in my practice, by training key team members to take over certain billable tasks and ensuring that workflows and technology support efficient operations, I’ll have more time to mentor my team to grow the business while enjoying a balance between my professional and personal life.

For any law firm partner or leader who wants to elevate their firm’s profitability while reclaiming precious time, this book is an indispensable resource. It encapsulates what it means to be a modern law firm leader—an entrepreneur who knows not only how to serve clients but also how to strategically build and manage a business that thrives.

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Ravie Govender (Head of Corporate & Commercial at Cowan-Harper-Madikizela)

I found Dan’s book really engaging and insightful. As I read it, I found it encouraging to know that other law firm partners like me have faced similar situations, and seeing how successful they have become is very encouraging. Seeing what is possible and learning some key strategies to lead and manage others has given me the confidence to take our firm to a whole new level, which you will want to do after reading this book, as Dan’s encouragement and enthusiasm are infectious.

The book is written in plain language and is full of common sense, so the instructions are easy to apply to how we run our firms. I learned that it’s key to be clear on our overall goal, how to be organised and structured with our communication, how to surround ourselves with the right people, and how to build a loyal workforce. All this, I know, will greatly speed up creating a profitable, happy work-life balance with happy employees. This book will be very useful for any law firm partner who is serious about succeeding.

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Vikki Herbert (Partner & Head of Real Estate at Thackray Williams Solicitors)

I come from a family of entrepreneurs and have been doing business coaching for a while. Everything Dan said in his book makes so much sense to me, and it’s confirmed that we’re on track with what we’re practising at our firm.

Whilst I may not be the best delegator or people manager, I am very familiar with everything Dan covered in this book, which, though it is not necessarily new to me, was great to crystalise everything I’ve already learned from starting my own law firm.

If only struggling law firm owners had access to such a book from the outset of their journey and the wisdom to implement what Dan covers, they would have enjoyed running their firm a lot more while being much more profitable in the short and long term.

This is a must-read for any law firm owner who feels they’ve hit a limit in their profits and are struggling to build a truly rewarding law firm with a positive culture.”

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Adam Creasey (Managing Director at Adam Benedict)

Though I’m an experienced law firm partner, I found investing my time to read Dan’s book well worth it. The section about how to build loyal teams resonated with my findings, and I will make the most of the further insights I’ve gained.

I have been fortunate to be managed by idiots and by one extraordinary lawyer and delegator to feel the difference between being managed by others with good and bad people skills. However, feeling the difference and understanding the difference are two separate things and only by building my own department did I come to that understanding much later in life.

If I had read Dan’s book when I first became a partner in a law firm, I think that law firm might still exist today. Instead, we were taken over by a firm which was ostensibly good at this stuff, and it took me another move and at least five more years to learn these lessons.

Dan has put some fundamental business-building lessons many law firm owners tend to avoid into a well-documented and easy-to-read form. It’s a great book for any law firm owner who is wise enough to know they don’t know it all.

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Patrick Gilmour (Head of Corporate and Commercial at Anthony Gold Solicitors LLP)

As a law firm director, I found Dan’s insights in the book practical and a refreshing departure from the usual management and leadership advice. What sets this book apart from other business and leadership books on the market is its focus on the legal profession and our unique challenges, especially in managing a team while maintaining profitability and balancing responsibilities outside the office.

This book brilliantly addresses the common pitfall that many of us law firm owners fall into – where we’re stuck doing fee-earning tasks instead of leading and growing our firm. Dan offers a clear roadmap to creating a more profitable and sustainable business while reclaiming our time and energy to work ‘on’ our firm instead of ‘in’ it. Dan’s examples are relevant and highlight the importance of learning to delegate profitably, not just delegating tasks.

In a market saturated with books on business efficiency and management, if you are a law firm owner looking to escape the trap of overwork and inefficiency, you are looking to take your practice and profits to the next level, Delegate Now to Supercharge Your Profits stands out as a must-read.

Tyrone Dutt (Director at Empire Law)

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