Three to five lawyers with ADHD, meeting weekly.
We work on the challenges and opportunities any one of us is carrying. $499 a month. Two brand-new cohorts are forming now.
A room with four other people who already know what you mean
I’m in the room every week, and every member gets a 30-minute one-on-one with me each month on top of the group hour.
One-on-one coaching gives you a room of your own. This gives you a room with four other people in it who already know what you mean. That turns out to be a different medicine, and for some people it’s the better one.
Why a group, when you could just hire me directly
Because of the explaining.
In a one-on-one session, I already understand you, so there’s nothing to explain. In a group of lawyers who don’t have ADHD, you spend the first ten minutes translating. In a group of people with ADHD who aren’t lawyers, you spend it explaining why you can’t just move the deadline. Here, you skip both and start at the part that helps.
The other reason is accountability, and I’ll be blunt about the mechanism. Committing to a plan in front of one coach works. Committing in front of four peers who’ll ask you about it next Tuesday works considerably better. That’s not a motivational claim, it’s just how the thing behaves.
How a cohort runs
One hour a week, same day and time, by Zoom, cameras on. The hour is structured, because an unstructured hour with five ADHD lawyers in it becomes a very enjoyable conversation about nothing.
- Check-in (5 min). One word, or a number out of ten plus one thing you’re grateful for.
- Accountability (10 min). What you committed to last week, and what actually happened.
- The main event (25 min). Usually a hot seat: one member brings a real challenge or a real opportunity, presents it for five minutes, and the rest of us work on it. You’ll contribute to plenty of problems that aren’t yours, out of what you’ve already lived through or can see coming. That turns out to be most of the value, and not only for the person in the seat.
- Commitments (15 min). Each person names one thing they’ll do before next week, and what happens if they don’t. The group is allowed to push back if your commitment is vague or obviously too big. It usually is at first.
- Housekeeping (5 min), and we end right at the hour. Every time.
What you’re agreeing to
Small groups only work if everybody’s actually in them. So:
- Full confidentiality. Non-negotiable, and for a room of lawyers it barely needs saying.
- Cameras on.
- Attend like your parents wanted you to attend church. Same time every week. Sometimes you genuinely can’t make it. Mostly you can.
- Give and ask. Both. A group where everyone asks and nobody gives is a support group, and a group where you only give is a job.
- Do things between sessions. The hour is where we decide. The week is where it counts.
The cohorts
Two brand-new ones are forming, running at the same time. Three to five lawyers each. A cohort isn’t sorted by topic, it’s formed from people who are ready to start at the same time, and it runs as long as the group stays together. There’s no set number of weeks and no graduation date. Clients are spread across the country, so both slots are picked to work in all four mainland time zones.
Cohort 8
Tuesdays
2:30–3:30 CT
Cohort 9
Thursdays
12:30–1:30 CT
A cohort closes when it starts
I don’t add people to a group that’s already running. Five lawyers who’ve been honest with each other for six months is a different room than five where somebody new arrives every few weeks, and the confidentiality above only means something if it’s the same room each time. So these two are the two. When they’re full, the next opening is the next cohort.
The flip side, said plainly: if a cohort drops below three, I’ll disband it rather than run it thin. Three is the floor where a hot seat still works. If that happens to yours, I’ll tell you early, your billing stops at the end of that month, and you keep first claim on a seat in the next cohort that forms, at the price you were paying. What I won’t do is drop you into somebody else’s room to fill a chair.
What $499 a month covers
- The weekly hour with your cohort, and me in it.
- A 30-minute one-on-one with me every month. Some things don’t belong in a room with four other people in it, and some things just need a straight answer faster than the rotation will get to you.
No contract. You can leave when it stops being worth it, though I’d ask you to give a cohort a real run before you decide.
Is this you?
Probably, if you’re a practicing lawyer with ADHD who’s tired of doing this alone, you do better with people watching than with a private to-do list, and you’d get something out of hearing how four other people are handling the same week you just had.
Probably not, if what’s in front of you right now is acute and specific and needs an hour a week of undivided attention. That’s one-on-one. A few people do both.
Getting in
Tell me you’re interested and we’ll talk. Twenty-five minutes, free. I’ll ask about your practice and your ADHD, which of the two times could work, and what you’d want a group to help with. At the end we work out together whether a cohort is right and which one fits. Cohorts are small by design and they close when they start, so if both are full when you get here, you go on the list for the next one.
What lawyers say
As a professional with ADHD, I’ve spent countless hours and countless dollars on coaches and productivity programs that never really helped, until I started working with Marshall of JDHD. Marshall understands both the ADHD brain and the lawyer brain, as well as the various pressures from parenting, relationships, etc. that weigh on our lives.
Liz Vennum
I’ve practiced law for over 20 years, and for the first time, I have hope for the next 20.
Anonymous solo firm owner