This article is written by Ramanuj Mukherjee, CEO, LawSikho.

You know how people talk about how it is so difficult to build a profitable law practice on your own? 

Bullshit, I say.

I started ClikLawyer in 2015 and shut it down in 2016 March. I ran it with two other co-founders for about 7-8 months. Before I started, another 2-3 months of prep work went into it.

It was a side gig. And still, we reached a revenue of 7-8 lakhs per month by the 7th month. In that month, expenses were 2.2 lakhs, which meant we made a very solid profit. 

Our average revenue over those 7 months was approximately 3 lakhs per month. 

The first month itself we did 1.5 lakhs. 

People who say it takes grey hair and a decade to build a law practice have no clue about what they are talking about.

So why did I shut it down?

In April that year, I moved to Goa. I had fallen sick and decided to move out of Delhi at any cost. My co-founders quit for various personal reasons. And I realised I could not keep things running from Goa, even though I experimented to see if I could.

Anyway, I decided more money wasn’t the goal and I need to make my health my primary concern. I already had a very demanding job of being the CEO of both iPleaders and LawSikho. ClikLawyer was the proverbial straw on the back of the camel which would have broken my back.

I erred in favour of sanity and peace. I went to Goa, set upna team in a co-working space in an idyllic and scenic village in Arambol, and that was that.

However, I really got my hands dirty in the law practice business, and while I love what I do at iPleaders and LawSikho, there are times when I totally miss the rush of ClikLawyer days.

Most of the work we did was money recovery. We used technology, and a lot of out of the box strategies to rapidly grow that business. We got a lot of references and repeat business.

I am now working on a law practice development course and this reminds me a lot of my ClikLawyer days.

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