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Seth Bader built one of Atlanta’s most recognized personal injury firms from the ground up, starting in 2008 with zero team members and a clear mission: fight for injured people the way the insurance companies never would.
But building a firm and running one are two different things.
For years, Seth ran Bader Law the way most lawyers do: he made decisions by gut, spent millions on channels that felt right, and kept waiting for the numbers to confirm what he hoped was working. The radio spend alone hit $2.5 million a year. He stayed on it for four years before finally pulling the plug, cold turkey.
When he did, the firm grew.
Things we talked about in this episode:
→ Why he killed his entire radio budget overnight and what he moved the money into
→ How going almost fully digital changed his firm’s trajectory
→ What alignment actually means inside a growing law firm (and what misalignment costs you)
→ Why the peer group inside a mastermind matters more than the curriculum
→ The lesson about resilience he’d tell every firm owner who’s in the middle of it right now
Seth built a great firm by staying in rooms where the wrong answers got corrected fast.
Seth, thank you for being so honest about the parts of your business that didn’t work. What you’ve built with Bader Law is going to be so encouraging for our listeners to hear!
Chapters
0:00 – Introduction: Meet Seth Bader of Bader Law
0:43 – Inside the Firm: 150 Team Members, 500 Cases a Month
1:04 – Staying Competitive in One of the Toughest PI Markets in the Country
1:48 – On the Fence About Coaching? Seth Was Too
4:07 – The $2.5 Million Radio Decision: Why He Walked Away Cold Turkey
9:47 – Why a Digital Audit Matters When You’re Spending at Scale
12:35 – The 2.5-Year Transformation and the Lessons It Left Behind
13:35 – Resilience, Alignment, and Running a Firm Like a Business
15:49 – What Life Looks Like When the Misaligned People Are Gone
17:51 – Final Advice for Firm Owners on the Fence About Masterminds
Connect with Seth
ttps://www.linkedin.com/in/sethbaderesq/
https://www.instagram.com/sethbaderesq/
https://www.facebook.com/sethbaderesq/
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