Ep 209 | Jo Stephens | Law Firm Sites, Inc., Specializes in Helping Law Firms Thrive Online

The Lawyer Stories Podcast

Benjamin Gold

Society & Culture

5.0 • 541 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The Lawyer Stories Podcast Episode 209 features Jo Stephens, CEO at Law Firm Sites, a digital marketing and web design agency specializing in helping law firms of all sizes thrive online. Jo shares with us that she has been in several different roles at Law Firm Sites, including Office Manager, Project Manager, and Director of Development. In 2017, Jo became the COO, and she finally took over as CEO and purchased the company in the fall of 2020. Jo managed to go back to school to work on her degree, raise her son, and donate time to her local community. Jo has helped build Law Firm Sites, Inc. from a few staff members working in a basement, to now over 35 employees. Law Firm Sites has even offered to build and manage a new website for Lawyer Stories and we are grateful for this opportunity!

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Lawyer Stories podcast with host Benny Gold. Lawyer Stories was founded in July 2017 on Instagram and is an expanding global network of lawyers and law students sharing their personal journeys to the noble profession of the practice of law.
0:16.7	Join us on this podcast as we dig deeper into these stories and hear from lawyers and law students from around the world in all areas of the legal profession.
0:25.7	Here at lawyer stories, we believe that every lawyer has a story. What's yours?
0:43.3	Welcome to the Lawyer Stories podcast with Benny Gold. Today we welcome in Joe Stevens, CEO at Law Firm Sites, Inc., a digital marketing and web design agency,
0:54.2	specializing and helping law firms of all sizes thrive online,
0:59.2	located in Lehigh, Utah, but obviously helping firms everywhere.
1:05.0	Joe, how are you? Welcome into the Lawyer Stories headquarters.
1:09.0	I'm doing good. I'm excited to be here and kind of share what we do and in my story.
1:14.6	Yeah, for sure.
1:15.6	We definitely, you definitely do a lot of cool stuff, but we certainly want to start with your story.
1:20.6	That was interesting.
1:22.6	I read it.
1:24.6	So you had a cool story of working your way up the ranks and purchasing law firm
1:28.4	sites after being in various positions at the actual company. So tell us like, so you went
1:36.5	from office manager, project manager, COO. So how did you get, first of all, just tell
1:42.0	us how you got started in the industry like with SEO and law firm sites and why lawyers just give us a little background?
1:49.2	Sure, sure. So I actually started 18 years ago at law firm sites. I was actually the janitor. I was single mom. I had a one-year-old and I needed a job. So I actually, my parents owned a janitorial service growing up, so I knew how to clean. So I answered a Craigslist ad to be a janitor. Yeah. I needed to work, right? And I had a baby to feed. So, you know, the owner and I actually became just really good friends. And when the receptionist position opened up,
2:18.0	he was like, would you like this position? It pays a little bit more. You've done such a great job.
2:21.9	I'll teach you how to do everything. And I became the receptionist. And it's just one of those that
2:26.7	kind of snowball. Amazing. How long were you, how long were you the receptionist for?
2:31.3	Gosh, probably probably a year or two. Okay.
2:35.0	Where I moved up to, you know, being a project manager, doing, being like an SEO strategist,
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