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Profitable on paper.
Broke in the bank.
You look at the P&L and see profit. You look at your bank account and wonder where the money went. The lockup is killing you. Your money is in prison.
Liz Miller
Fractional COO & CFO · Tampa, FL
You went to law school to practice law.
Not to run a business.
That gap is what I close. Fractional COO and CFO services for law firm owners who are drowning in the business they didn't sign up to run.
In Cooley Law's Curriculum
MBA
Author
Hillsborough County Bar
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Schedule a 1:1 diagnostic call.
Thirty minutes. We'll talk about what's actually broken in your firm, and whether I'm the right fit to help. No pitch deck. No sales team. You get me, directly.
Best fit: solo and small law firms that have outgrown DIY operations, not BigLaw, not pre-revenue practices.
Is this you?
Three things every overworked firm owner says out loud, eventually.
Profitable on paper.
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Doing twenty-an-hour work
in a three-hundred-an-hour seat.
The billable hours are leaking into intake, admin, billing, follow-up. You're working harder than ever and producing less. Non-billable admin is eating your day.
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Everything flows
back to you.
Your team asks you for direction on everything. Stepping away feels impossible. The firm runs on your memory, not its systems. You are the bottleneck.
Sound familiar?
Let's talk →
Why firms choose Liz
Four reasons
firms call me instead.
No cohorts. No coaches with a podcast and a course. An operator who's lived inside law firms, and runs one for you.
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MBA, and a book Cooley teaches.
Business training plus decades running the operations side of law firms. I read your P&L like a CFO and your firm like someone who has lived inside one. You don't have to translate.
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Decades inside the firm.
I've spent decades operating inside actual law firms, not advising from a consulting deck. I've watched firms work and watched firms fail. The patterns are the same.
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One-on-one only.
No cohorts. No masterminds. No application funnels. No voice agent on my phone. When you call, you get me. That's the whole brand.
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A real methodology.
The From Lawyer to Law Firm Method, a five-stage operational framework, not a vibes-based coaching call. Discovery, Stabilization, Structure, Leadership, Compensation. In that order.
Different from the lawyer-coach lane on purpose.
More about Liz →
The Work
What I actually do
when you bring me in.
01 · Retainer
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Fractional COO
Operational leadership without a full-time hire. I take ownership of the business side so you can practice law.
Learn more →
02 · Retainer
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Fractional CFO
Financial visibility, cash flow, profitability. I tell you what your numbers mean and fix the gap between book profit and bank balance.
Learn more →
03 · Retainer
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Strategic Partner
Accountability + experienced sounding board. I sit in your corner, operational, financial, strategic, every week.
Learn more →Need something more focused? See the Operations Audit, Cash Flow & Collections, Profitability Consulting, Intake Coordinator Training, and Practice Management Optimization engagements.
The Method
The From Lawyer to Law Firm Method.
A five-stage operational framework for law firm owners who want to run a real business, not just a legal practice.
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Discovery
Operations Audit. Map what's actually broken.
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Stabilization
Stop the bleeding, cash flow and intake.
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Structure
Build systems that run without you.
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Leadership
Ongoing operational + financial ownership.
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Compensation
Pay yourself like the owner of a real business.
Proof
Real firms. Real outcomes.
Firm names are confidential, discretion is part of the work. The numbers are theirs. (Source: Liz Miller's case study record, 2026, anonymized real prior clients.)
Case Study 01 · Divorce Firm
From three-fifteen to nine-sixty-five
A divorce firm grew from roughly three-hundred-fifteen thousand to roughly nine-hundred-sixty-five thousand in annual revenue over two years. Business loan paid off four years early. Partner placed on a steady three-hundred-thousand salary. (Per Liz's case study record, 2026.)
Read the story → Case Study 02 · Family LawHalf-again the retention.
A growing family law firm saw a one-half lift in potential clients retaining the firm after an intake rebuild that became a hundred-page operations manual. (Per Liz's case study record, 2026.) Cross-trained staff. Consultations stopped falling through the cracks.
Read the story → Case Study 03 · Family LawBilling back in a month.
Second engagement after staff churn. Within less than thirty days, timekeepers approached their monthly minimum billing requirements. One-on-one training. (Per Liz's case study record, 2026.)
Read the story → Case Study 04 · Multi-attorney Firm"No longer trapped in survival mode."
Full operational rebuild of a mid-size firm, billing, intake, staff training, marketing. From reactive and overwhelmed to structured and profitable. (Owner's words; per Liz's case study record, 2026.)
Read the story →
About Liz
I've spent decades inside law firms
making them work.
Tampa-based. MBA. Author of From Lawyer to Law Firm, used in the curriculum at Cooley Law School. Decades of operational responsibility inside actual law firms, running them, watching them work, watching them fail.
I do Fractional COO and CFO work for one type of business: law firms. Not coaches, not chiropractors, not e-commerce. Lawyers, exclusively.
One-on-one only. No cohorts, no application funnels, no membership tiers. When you call, you get me.
The Promise
"When you call, you get me. Not an answering service. Not a delay. Not a voice agent. You talk directly to the person who is going to fix the problem."
The voice-cloned-Liz widget on this site is a forward-thinker convenience for browsing. The phone goes straight to me. Two channels. Two postures. Intentional.
What does a Fractional COO actually do for a law firm?
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Operational ownership. I take responsibility for the business side of your firm, workflows, accountability, KPIs, staff structure, so you can focus on practicing law. It's not coaching. It's not consulting at arm's length. I'm in the firm with you, weekly.
Do you take group cohorts, masterminds, or memberships?
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No. I work one-on-one only. Every engagement is direct, personal, and confidential. There's no group I'm trying to fit you into.
What happens when I call your phone number?
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You get me. Not an answering service. Not a voice agent. Not a delay. Direct. (813) 340-9569.
Do you work with firms outside Florida?
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Yes. I'm Tampa-based, but most of my work is remote. The Fractional COO/CFO framework doesn't depend on physical proximity.
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Ready to operate as a business,
not just a legal practice?
Schedule a thirty-minute call. We'll talk about what's actually broken and whether I'm the right fit to help.