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You've Hired. You've Built Systems. You're Still the Bottleneck.

Watch Gimbal Consulting's Karen Dunn Skinner and David Skinner explain why delegation fails in small firms and the three-part system that fixes it.

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The problem

Your firm grew. The way work moves did not.

This session is for owners who have already tried hiring, systems, and time management, but still feel every important decision coming back to them.

Growth made you the system

The firm grew, but the work still routes through the person who started it. Every decision, handoff, and follow-up waits for you.

The bottleneck hides in plain sight

You can have good people and good intentions while ownership, process, and decision authority remain invisible between steps.

Delegation needs somewhere to land

A task only stays delegated when everyone can see what done means, how the work gets done, and who can decide what happens next.

Karen Dunn Skinner and David Skinner of Gimbal Consulting
About the session

Stop being the person every answer waits on.

You've hired people. You've built systems. You've blocked time on your calendar and told yourself things would settle down after this trial, this quarter, this busy season. They didn't.

Karen Dunn Skinner and David Skinner joined Legalboards for a live, hour-long session on the structural reasons delegation breaks down, and how to make ownership visible instead of keeping it in your head.

Speakers: Karen Dunn Skinner and David Skinner are the founders of Gimbal Consulting. They have helped hundreds of solo and small firm owners across North America stop doing the wrong work and grow revenue without working more hours.

They are the authors of The Power Zone Playbook for Lawyers.

Who this is for

Built for firms ready to stop guessing.

  • Solo and small firm lawyers whose revenue has plateaued
  • Firm owners who have tried hiring, systems, or time management without real results
  • Anyone who suspects they are the bottleneck but has not been able to prove it
What we covered

A practical framework for handing work over.

  • 1

    Why practice design, not discipline, is keeping you stuck

  • 2

    How to calculate what the wrong work is actually costing your firm

  • 3

    Why delegation keeps failing even with a capable team

  • 4

    The three-part system: clarity, process, and decision authority

Keep the momentum

Your firm's workflow should not depend on follow-ups and memory.

Legalboards runs on top of Clio, MyCase, PracticePanther, and more, removing the manual steps that make a new process feel like more work than the old one.