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I enrolled in the Intake Mastery workshop hoping to streamline my firm’s process, but I walked away disappointed. For a $2,000 investment, I expected high-level insights. Instead, the curriculum consisted of rudimentary information that is either common sense or what I had already learned in law school.

However, the lack of depth wasn’t the biggest issue it was the philosophy. While the description claims to help "build trust," the actual content felt incredibly sleazy. The focus is entirely on aggressive sales tactics rather than genuinely helping clients. We were advised to prioritize potential clients based strictly on how much money we could extract from them, rather than the merit or urgency of their legal needs.

The profit-over-people approach felt incompatible with my business practices. If you are looking to elevate the integrity of your firm, look elsewhere. This workshop offers little value for the price tag and promotes a mindset that treats legal intake like a high-pressure sales quota.

I just finished the $1,500 hybrid (live and pre-recorded) workshop Grow Your Law Practice with AI and am very disappointed. It's a regurgitation of AI anecdotes and marketing tactics readily available on the internet and YouTube videos. I didn't pay $1,500 to spend 10+ hours to hear how lawyers used open LLMs to find case law or how to use ChatGPT to create social media ads. The most obvious reason why and how a law firm should use AI wasn't even addressed, which is the ability to lower personnel expenses. I was able to layoff two associate attorneys from my firm by creating a closed LLM and adding a paralegal. This provided a substantial increase in profit for my firm. It is mind-boggling that this wasn't even covered in the workshop.

I have previously attended the company's annual conference in Orlando and found it to be a lot of hype. There were several leader-guru types giving keynote speeches that can easily be found on YouTube Ted Talks. I received an invitation to attend again a few weeks ago, but I have to say it doesn't provide much value to law firm owners for the ticket price. There is value if you want to start a law firm and are clueless as to the business side of things. You can listen to their podcast, but be aware that they recycle almost all of their guests so there isn't a lot of new content. I did find it odd that they fired their podcast producer and replaced them with the podcast host’s daughter who had just graduated from college with a degree in video game design.

I found the Habit Shift workshop to be derivative of other management-type workshops (and books) with information that can be applied to any profession. The concepts and strategies presented were at the high school level and, quite frankly, just common sense. The workshop is not worth the time or money.

I find their educational materials and coaching style to be pedantic. Filling out worksheets like an elementary school student to manage my time is insulting. What I find most frustrating about the CEO and the company is their inability to provide clients with advertising suggestions or assistance. The whole point of their philosophy and mission is to help attorneys grow their business. How can you grow a business without advertising? As of March 2025, they haven't offered a single webinar or workshop about advertising since their incorporation. The current webinars and workshops don't offer any information about advertising strategies. The podcast guests are mostly employees recycled every few months. I can see why the CEO and podcast host no longer have their own law firms.

I attended the annual Summit conference Atticus offers in Orlando, Florida, and was impressed with the keynote speaker who talked about the importance of treating company team members fairly and like family. However, at the conference lunch later the same day, I was speaking with an Atticus employee who told me the CEO had laid off the entire marketing team four months earlier, then hired replacements shortly afterwards. I was shocked and disappointed to learn about the treatment of these workers especially after listening to one of their keynote speakers talk for an hour about the need for better treatment of team members. The hypocrisy of the company partners and CEO was palpable after learning this truth since multiple people lost their jobs around the same time. The fact the company hired replacements means it was not a financial decision because job functions were not eliminated from the company budget. The possible motivations for such an action made me feel uncomfortable during the remainder of the conference, and I viewed the company CEO and partners in a new light.

Two years ago I attended their annual conference in Orlando, Florida, and one of the speaker topics was called Bonus Years. The founder of the company, along with the managing partner, discussed how people will now be able to live to the age of 125 or 150 due to advancements in technology and medicine. They got the audience all excited about living another 75 or 100 years (based on the ages of the attendees). Their claims in the presentation seemed bogus to me. After the annual conference, they created a yearlong workshop about this Bonus Years topic (which I think should be called Bogus Years) and charged people an enormous amount of money to take the workshop. Unfortunately, at their annual conference the following year, it was revealed the founder of the company, the same guy who gave the Bonus Years presentation the year before, had cancer and was unable to attend the conference. He made a prerecorded video about this cancer diagnosis and prognosis, which was screened for attendees. The irony of events was not lost on this attendee who never believed in their wacko presentation.

Atticus caters to attorneys disillusioned with their profession, offering a means to increase income without engaging fully in the career they resent. The company's primary objective is to train law firm owners to offload their responsibilities onto others, allowing them to detach from the work they disdain. Remarkably, the CEO and managing partner, both long-absent from legal practice, chose to abandon the field they openly dislike. Were they not so averse to the profession, they might still be practicing today. Atticus has thus crafted a system to assist dissatisfied attorneys in earning a living while minimizing their involvement in a job they don't enjoy.