Notes and experiences from the desk of Dan Holestine - CEO / Founder of wMS
On the wHole : wMS Blog
Recent Articles
- Dan
- July 14, 2026
Six Leadership Habits That Quietly Erode Law Firm Performance Nobody builds a law firm intending to create an...
- Dan
- July 9, 2026
Standardization Doesn't Kill Quality in a Law Firm. It Protects It. The resistance to standardization in law firms is...
- Dan
- July 6, 2026
Law Firms Don't Have a Technology Problem. They Have a Strategy Problem. If you add up the technology spending across...
- Dan
- July 3, 2026
AI Won't Replace Lawyers. But It Will Separate the Firms That Are Ready From the Ones That Aren't. The conversation...
- Dan
- June 30, 2026
The Real Difference Between a Busy Law Firm and a Profitable One There is a distinction that most law firm financial...
- Dan
- June 25, 2026
The Do-It-All Founder Bottleneck: Why Your Best Asset Might Be Your Ceiling She was, by most measures, an exceptional...
- Dan
- June 23, 2026
Being a Great Lawyer Doesn't Make You a Great Leader This is a difficult thing to say to the people it applies to,...
- Dan
- June 18, 2026
What Law Firms Can Learn by Looking Outside the Legal Industry Law firms have a benchmarking habit that is both...
- Dan
- June 16, 2026
Buying More Legal Tech Won't Fix Broken Workflows Somewhere right now, a law firm is purchasing new software to solve a...
- Dan
- June 10, 2026
Seven Places Law Firms Lose Time Every Week (and Rarely Talk About) When law firms think about operational...
- Dan
- June 8, 2026
The Legal Industry Isn't Broken. But It Is Stuck. There is a version of the legal industry conversation that goes too...
- Dan
- June 4, 2026
Managing Partners: Are You Leading Your Firm or Just Refereeing It? There is a kind of meeting that every law firm...
- Dan
- June 2, 2026
Why Most Law Firm Growth Plans Fail Before They Start There is a conversation that happens inside law firms with...
- Dan
- January 9, 2026
Stop Drowning in Admin Work. Your Firm Deserves Better. You didn’t endure three years of law school and the bar exam to...
- Dan
- December 22, 2025
Modernize Your Law Firm: Stop Running Your Practice Like It’s 1999 Let’s be honest: no one is using a physical Rolodex...
- Dan
- November 12, 2025
You’re an outstanding lawyer. That's why clients in Orange County trust you with their toughest cases. But running the...
- Dan
- September 22, 2025
Let’s be real-a thriving law firm isn’t just built on sharp legal minds and a healthy client roster. Operational...
- Dan
- December 20, 2024
About a decade ago, if you worked in revenue operations or lead generation, every conversation somehow circled back to...
- Dan
- December 5, 2024
When businesses face a leadership gap, they often look to bring in an outsider. But not all leadership roles—or...
- Dan
- November 22, 2024
In the marketing realm, where endless spreadsheets, whiteboard scribbles, and caffeine-fueled debates reign supreme,...
- Dan
- November 15, 2024
Introduction If you've ever tackled a marathon of meetings, you'll know that business often feels like a long-distance...
- Dan
- October 27, 2024
Introduction Before the pandemic turned remote work into a ubiquitous reality, my team and I at the American College of...
- Dan
- October 16, 2024
Business leaders often seek inspiration outside their traditional domains, and the world of sports offers a treasure...
- Dan
- September 10, 2024
How Letting Go of Traditional Success to Address Life Issues Helped Me Redefine Success Both Personally and...
