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Hosted by Jeffrey Bellomo, Esq., CELA, LLM, and over 20 years of experience practicing in estate planning.  We’ll discuss all things Estate Planning and Law.  Our mission is to help educate so that what happened to the Bellomo family doesn’t happen to you. We hope to answer your most burning questions and support you with a solution to estate planning that works for you and your loved ones.

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Molly McGrath: Transforming the Legal Workplace

Apr 6, 2023

Molly McGrath has left an indelible mark on Bellomo & Associates and countless other law firms. Her passion and expertise is in hiring, coaching, and empowering members of the legal team, especially teams in the field of estate planning and elder law. She heads up Hiring & Empowering Solutions, which offers results-driven legal staffing, employee development, and legal consulting to firms across the country.

Your host, Jeffrey R. Bellomo, the founder of Bellomo & Associates, is a licensed and certified elder law attorney with a master’s degree in taxation and a certificate in estate planning. He explains complex legal and financial topics in easy-to-understand language.

Key Takeaways 

(00:51) – Entered estate planning industry in 1997

  • Hired by National Network of Estate Planning Attorneys 

  • Learned the value of training and coaching when it was provided to her early on

  • Believes that estate planning and elder law attorneys tend to be different with a more service-oriented mindset

(07:11) – Passionate about developing the team

  • Runs the “Law Firm Admin Boot Camp” 

  • A good team is an extension of the servant-leader and shares their mission and spirit 

  • The value of training is starting to be seen in other specialty areas: criminal defense, family law, personal injury, etc.

(10:33) – Molly’s podcast 

  • Podcast: “Hiring and Empowering Solutions with Molly McGrath” 

  • Dedicated to teaching attorneys to see their team as an asset

  • Promotes the importance of understanding the views and concerns of the clients as well

(13:30) – First impressions

  • The most important person in the law firm is the person responsible for the first impression 

  • A leader must keep their mind and eyes open to see what is happening around them

  • The leader must be coachable, too

(19:00) – Destined for estate planning 

  • Believes that her family’s experience led her to this career

  • Her grandmother had Alzheimer’s Disease and required custodial care, but there was no estate plan in place

  • As a result, her father’s big, close family was destroyed by fighting over the estate 

  • Molly’s parents died with a trust, but there were lessons to be learned there as well

Links and Resources Mentioned

Hiring and Empowering Solutions with Molly McGrath (podcast episode on YouTube with Jeffrey Bellomo) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJIXegb9b00

Molly’s website – https://hiringandempowering.com/

National Network of Estate Planning Attorneys – 

https://nnepa.com/

Bellomo & Associates workshops:https://bellomoassociates.com/workshops/

  • Life Care Planning
  • The Three Secrets of Estate Planning
  • Nuts & Bolts of Medicaid

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