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Attorney Bankruptcy Lawyer: Best Referral Sources

Who should be sending you clients, and the rooms they are already sitting in. Tell us where you are and we will send the list.

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The rooms for bankruptcy attorneys, the next meeting dates, and who to ask for when you walk in.

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Your one-page action plan

Five partners, what starts the work for each one, and the three rooms to be in. Print it and keep it in the car.

Networking plan: Attorney Bankruptcy

The five people who should be sending you clients

  1. CPA / Accountant (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a letter shows up from the IRS
  2. Attorney Business & Corporate (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody gets sued
  3. Attorney Employment & Labor (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody gets sued
  4. Tax Resolution Specialist (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a letter shows up from the IRS
  5. Real Estate Agent (Residential) (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a marriage ends

The three rooms to be in

  1. State CPA society: Your partners are in this room: CPAs, tax resolution firms, and bookkeepers.
  2. LinkedIn groups & local B2B communities: Your partners are in this room: CPAs, business attorneys, and employment attorneys.
  3. Your city or county chamber of commerce: Your partners are in this room: CPAs, business attorneys, and employment attorneys.

Don't confuse this with networking: State bar practice sections. Learning and supplier access, not referrals.

The people

Who should be sending you clients

Ranked by what starts the job, not by who sounds close to your trade. When something happens that makes people need bankruptcy attorneys, who else gets a call that same week?

Match strength is how much of your work starts from the same event as theirs, scored out of 100. Higher means you are more often called into the same job in the same week.

  1. 1 CPA / Accountant They send you work Trigger: a letter shows up from the IRS 75 match strength out of 100
  2. 2 Attorney Business & Corporate They send you work Trigger: somebody gets sued 72 match strength out of 100
  3. 3 Attorney Employment & Labor They send you work Trigger: somebody gets sued 65 match strength out of 100
  4. 4 Tax Resolution Specialist They send you work Trigger: a letter shows up from the IRS 63 match strength out of 100
  5. 5 Real Estate Agent (Residential) They send you work Trigger: a marriage ends 61 match strength out of 100
  6. 6 Attorney Personal Injury They send you work Trigger: somebody gets sued 60 match strength out of 100
  7. 7 Bookkeeper Two-way Trigger: a letter shows up from the IRS 58 match strength out of 100
  8. 8 Financial Advisor They send you work Trigger: a marriage ends 58 match strength out of 100
  9. 9 Attorney Real Estate Two-way Trigger: somebody gets sued 58 match strength out of 100
  10. 10 Private Investigator Two-way Trigger: somebody gets sued 57 match strength out of 100

Knowing the names is half of it. We will send the list with what to say to each one. Send me my list ↑

The rooms

Where those people actually are

Ranked by how many of your best partners are in the room, and how much work each one can send you. Give someone nine choices and they pick none, so we have marked the one to start with.

  1. 1 State CPA society Your pick Your partners are in this room: CPAs, tax resolution firms, and bookkeepers. Your partners' association · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  2. 2 LinkedIn groups & local B2B communities Your partners are in this room: CPAs, business attorneys, and employment attorneys. Online community · Always on · Free · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  3. 3 Your city or county chamber of commerce Your partners are in this room: CPAs, business attorneys, and employment attorneys. Chamber of commerce · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  4. 4 Your local Realtor board or association Your partners are in this room: residential real estate agents and real estate attorneys. Your partners' association · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  5. 5 Vistage Your partners are in this room: CPAs, business attorneys, and financial advisors. Paid peer group · Monthly · $2,000+/yr · ~8 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  6. 6 Your local estate planning council Your partners are in this room: CPAs and financial advisors. Your partners' association · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  7. 7 EO (Entrepreneurs' Organization) Your partners are in this room: business attorneys and financial advisors. Paid peer group · Monthly · $2,000+/yr · ~8 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  8. 8 BNI One seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above. Structured referral group · Weekly · $500–$2,000/yr · ~8 hrs/month · One seat per category Chapter finder →
The competitor trap

State bar practice sections

Most bankruptcy attorneys join this room first. It is also the one most likely to be the wrong pick. Everyone in it does what you do. Join it for the training, the licenses, and the ties to manufacturers. Do not join it for referrals, and do not join it instead of the rooms above.

Let us be straight with you. For bankruptcy attorneys, a weekly referral group is not the best pick. Your partners gather in professional groups instead, so spend your time there. We would rather say that than sell you a seat you do not need.

These rooms meet on real dates. We will send you the next ones for your area. Send me the dates ↑

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Prime Time takes one Attorney Bankruptcy per chapter. Put a South Florida ZIP into the form above and we will show you which seats are open.

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