Business coaches for lawyers
Compare 22 business coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are scaling and growth, leadership and team building, operations and systems and marketing. They most often work with lawyers, founders and business owners and professionals. Most charge $95 to $225 per hour or session.
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David Barlow
David Barlow coaches attorneys who want to launch or grow their own law firms. He is a Honolulu personal injury lawyer who started his firm in 2009. He has run every side of the business, from marketing and client acquisition to staff, operations and referral networks. He also brings courtroom experience with car, motorcycle and pedestrian injury cases on Oahu. He shares what he learned over 18 years so newer lawyers can avoid early mistakes.
Ben Glass
Ben Glass is an attorney who coaches lawyers on marketing. Ben helps solo and small firm owners build law practices that earn more and take less upkeep. Ben has practiced law for more than 40 years and has led a community of entrepreneurial lawyers for more than 20 years. Ben runs Great Legal Marketing with Brian Glass, and the company has helped hundreds of lawyers. Ben is based in Virginia.
Brooke Lively
Brooke Lively is a Certified EOS Implementer who helps law firm leaders grow their practices with less stress and more control. She has more than 20 years in the legal industry and has worked with hundreds of law firms across the country. She holds an MBA and the CFA designation. She founded two law-firm focused companies, Cathcap and Scaling Law, and has published seven books, four of them for law firms.
Elise Holtzman
Elise Holtzman is the founder of The Lawyer's Edge. Elise coaches lawyers and law firms on business development and leadership. Elise is a former attorney at Am Law 100 firms and holds a JD from Columbia Law School. Since 2008 Elise has worked only with lawyers. Elise helps them build books of business, step into roles like managing partner, and improve teamwork. Elise's signature group program is called Lawyers Making Rain.
Tiffany Ablola
Tiffany Ablola is an EOS Implementer who helps law firms and professional services companies get clear, build accountability, and improve team health. She worked as an employment attorney before this, mediating tough executive talks and running workplace investigations. She is also a Kolbe Certified Consultant. She leads virtual sessions built around remote team dynamics. Some of her clients have made the Inc. 5000 list.
Law Firm Success Group
Law Firm Success Group is a legal consulting and coaching firm for solo attorneys and small law firms in the US. Its Practice Advisors work one-on-one with firm owners on business systems, financial discipline and leadership. The firm has served more than 500 clients. It also offers HR and recruiting help and law firm management services. Its work is built around how legal practices bill, operate and grow, not general business coaching.
Nancy Myrland
Nancy Myrland is a marketing and business development advisor who coaches lawyers and law firms. She focuses on content, social and digital media. She is known as the LinkedIn Coach For Lawyers and trains firms on LinkedIn. She founded LinkedIn Course For Lawyers, where she guides lawyers step by step through building their profile and presence. She also helps with personal branding and online presentations, and she guides select firms through social media strategy on high-stakes, visible cases.
Atticus
Atticus is a coaching firm for attorneys who want to run stronger law practices. It works with law firm owners and small law firms on revenue, client development, cash flow, staffing, and time management. The firm has trained more than 20,000 attorneys. It also offers a practice growth diagnostic, tailored training, and team leader certification. Its focus is narrow: Helping lawyers learn the business side of law that law school did not teach.
Ed Poll
Ed Poll is a lawyer coach and legal consultant who helps attorneys and law firm owners grow, buy or sell their practices. Ed practiced law for 25 years and served as Chief Operating Officer of a mid-size firm before Ed turned to consulting. Ed created The Business of Law® approach, which focuses on higher revenue, better efficiency and less stress. Their company is called LawBiz.
Russ Katzman
Russ Katzman is a business and innovation coach who works with owners, founders and executives through their practice, Progeny. Russ brings over 25 years in integrated systems and human behavior. In the past five years Russ taught and mentored more than 1000 business professionals. Russ holds a Six Sigma Black Belt, a PMP and an MBA. Russ also shares books and articles that fit each owner's situation.
David Pisarra
David Pisarra is an entrepreneurship, executive and business coach in Santa Monica, California. David is also an active attorney. David coaches mid-career legal professionals whose income has stalled and who have lost focus or interest in their work. David helps lawyers feel happier in their careers and helps legal practices grow.
Michael Hanegan
Michael Hanegan is an innovation coach in Oklahoma who works as an Intellectual Property Architect. Michael helps leaders, thinkers and experts turn their hard-earned knowledge and experience into wider reach and impact. Michael is most interested in people with big ideas who want to move from idea to action. Michael works across many fields with people at the top of their game. Michael is also a Senior Fellow at The Dietrich Bonhoeffer Institute.
Nancy Brown
Nancy Brown is a business coach and energy coach for physicians, attorneys and entrepreneurs. Nancy has worked with hundreds of clients over more than 20 years. Nancy's focus is helping busy professionals balance their lives and streamline their solo practices. Nancy also helps clients who feel burned out in their business get back to steady success. Nancy offers a program called Design a Well Balanced Life and works as a physician coach.
Janicek Performance Group
Janicek Performance Group is a communication coaching firm for executives and senior leaders. It covers executive coaching, public speaking, media training and personal branding. The team includes Emmy-winning journalists, performance trainers and communication advisors. The firm has trained more than 10,000 executives over 20 years. Clients range from Fortune 500 CEOs to venture-backed founders. It teaches its own system, the JPG Method, to help leaders communicate with clarity and authority.
Jennifer Yeh
Jennifer Yeh is a coach and mediator who helps leaders, teams and individuals handle conflict, bias and hard conversations. She has coached since 2015 and mediated since 2007. She is a trained lawyer with a Juris Doctor and MIT degrees in Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Political Science. She has researched the psychology of bias and conflict. Her global work and travel shape her cross-cultural coaching. She also coaches cancer survivors and their caregivers.
Samorn Selim
Samorn Selim is a career, executive, and leadership coach who helps BIPOC, women, and first-generation professionals build careers they enjoy. Samorn is a lawyer turned coach and the founder of Career Unicorns. Samorn was a big law attorney, then Director of Employer Outreach at Berkeley Law. Samorn has coached more than 1,000 lawyers, tech workers, and leaders. Samorn's programs aim to get clients to their goals in 3 months.
Anna Rappaport
Anna Rappaport is a coach for lawyers who runs Excelleration Coaching. Anna works on business development, leadership and career strategy with law firm partners, aspiring partners and in-house counsel. Anna has spent 22 years training leaders and coaches in personal growth and development. Anna works only with attorneys, so Anna knows how law firms operate. Anna is based in Washington, D.C. and coaches clients around the world.
Megan Smiley
Megan Smiley is a career and life coach who helps lawyers and other professionals leave unfulfilling work and start their own businesses. She founded Megan Smiley Coaching and hosts The Lawyer's Escape Pod. Before coaching, she practiced corporate law and worked as the Director of International Programs at a law school. Her clients explore entrepreneurship and build businesses that fit their values, talents and life vision.
Anne Collier
Anne Collier leads Arudia, a leadership and management training firm. Anne coaches leaders and managers, with a focus on law firm partners, counsel and associates, and other professional services. Anne's work uses assessments to give leaders insight into their style. Arudia also offers a leadership program for women, custom leadership development, on-demand courses, and retreats for executive teams and boards.
Bay LeBlanc Quiney
Bay LeBlanc Quiney is a business and executive coach for driven entrepreneurs, leaders and professionals. She holds an MBA and the ICF PCC credential. Her focus is perfectionism, the habit of trying harder to be perfect until it stops working. Her clients include Olympic-level athletes, artists, designers, lawyers, doctors and executives from media companies such as NBCUniversal, Inc. She is based in Victoria, B.C. and travels to work with clients around the world.
Dina Cataldo
Dina Cataldo is a Master Certified Coach who works with lawyers. Dina helps them calm overwhelm, grow their law practices, and make time for the life they want. Before coaching, Dina was a criminal prosecutor. Dina built their coaching business on top of that full-time job. Dina trained with The Life Coach School. Dina's work centers on mindset, and Dina teaches lawyers how their thinking drives their habits and results. Dina is not taking new clients right now.
Julie Han
Julie Han is a career and leadership coach in Summit, New Jersey. Julie helps clients who want more happiness or success in their careers and personal lives. Julie is an experienced attorney and senior executive, and Julie coaches lawyers who want to develop their careers or make a change. Julie holds a JD and is a Certified Career and Life Coach. Julie also writes articles on career coaching, bosses, and happiness.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| David Barlow | Scaling and growth and Marketing | $125 to $300 an hour |
| Ben Glass | Scaling and growth and Marketing | $125 to $300 an hour |
| Brooke Lively | Scaling and growth and Operations and systems | $160 to $290 an hour |
| Elise Holtzman | Sales and Leadership and team building | $135 to $200 an hour |
| Tiffany Ablola | Operations and systems and Leadership and team building | $160 to $225 an hour |
| Law Firm Success Group | Scaling and growth and Operations and systems | $125 to $300 an hour |
| Nancy Myrland | Marketing and Agencies | $150 to $260 an hour |
| Atticus | Scaling and growth and Leadership and team building | $125 to $300 an hour |
| Ed Poll | Scaling and growth and Operations and systems | $125 to $300 an hour |
| Russ Katzman | Startups and founders and Operations and systems | $80 to $175 an hour |
| David Pisarra | Scaling and growth and Leadership and team building | $125 to $250 an hour |
| Michael Hanegan | Coaches and consultants | $160 to $260 an hour |
| Nancy Brown | Health and wellness practices | $135 to $225 an hour |
| Janicek Performance Group | Startups and founders | $130 to $255 an hour |
| Jennifer Yeh | Conflict, bias and workplace culture coach for leaders and teams | $145 to $275 an hour |
Common questions
How much does a business coach cost?
Most business coaches charge $95 to $225 per hour or session.
What else do these business coaches help with?
Common focus areas include scaling and growth, leadership and team building, operations and systems and marketing.
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Last updated September 2026.