Today we’d like to introduce you to James Grant.
Hi James, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
When people find out what I do for a living and where I started, many times they ask, “How’d that happen?”
As the co-founding owner of a Georgia personal injury law firm, I did not follow the typical path to law school. Years ago, I was a civil engineering major at the Georgia Institute of Technology. I was in my last year of school and had job offers to go into the civil engineering field. But I took a class that coupled engineering with federal policies, regulations and other laws. Halfway through that class, I decided to sit for the law school admission test (LSAT). After I got my results, I applied to and was accepted to the Thomas Goode Jones School of Law at Faulkner University in Montgomery, Alabama.
During law school, I had planned on either becoming a patent lawyer or working for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). However, after an internship at the local District Attorney’s Office, I was hooked on litigation and being in the courtroom. After graduating from law school, I moved back to Georgia, applied for, took and passed the Georgia Bar exam – on the first attempt.
After working as a prosecutor and in private practice, I learned how to litigate and how not to run a business. My business partner and I decided to take the plunge into entrepreneurship and opened our law firm in January of 2015. We are personal injury attorneys who help other lawyers make more money in less time and with less stress. As the outsourced litigation department for other injury lawyers, we have been able to help thousands of injured victims recover millions of dollars every year.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
Absolutely Not! The road of entrepreneurship is never a straight road. When we started our business, we had no business plan, no clients, no referral sources… nothing. We were just two dudes hanging out in my business partner’s basement. However, the single best thing we ever did for ourselves, our business and our clients was to hire a business coach. Most business owners, and almost all law firm owners, have no business expertise. By hiring a business coach, we were able to take our personal, professional and financial development to an entirely new level. Even with a coach, the road is still bumpy. But as you grow and have trusted advisors, the problems that come are much easier to deal with.
The job of a business owner it to built and system and a team that achieves the desired result. This is done by hiring, training and re-training people that are better in their given roles than you are as the owner. The job of a business owner is not to be the best at everything – it is simply not possible. Gaining this mindset and perspective has helped us catapult to an entirely new level that will help so many more injured victims and law firms for decades to come.
Appreciate you sharing that. What should we know about Georgia Trial Attorneys at Kirchen & Grant, LLC?
We are a personal injury law firm that helps other injury attorneys to make more money in less time and with less stress. We are the outsourced litigation department for personal injury law firms across the southeast, predominantly in Georgia. Most personal injury law firms are focused on marketing to injured victims, getting them the treatment they need and negotiating a settlement with the insurance company. Many of these injury law firm are not built to handle the “next steps” when a case cannot be settled without a lawsuit. If a lawsuit needs to be filed, we help other law firms to litigate their cases under a system and structure that is much more efficient, based on our years of experience and results. We are looking for other personal injury law firms in the southeast who are focused on pre-litigation cases with proven results but lack the desire or skill to handle their own litigation cases.
Is there anyone you’d like to thank or give credit to?
There is not enough space for me to give credit to all those who have helped me in becoming the husband, father, business owner, attorney and man that I am today. First, I give all the glory to God for blessing me with the skills, opportunities and experiences to become the person that I am today – and the person I will become in the future. Second, I cannot thank my wife enough for being there from the very beginning. If it wasn’t for her love, support, encouragement and advice, there is no way I would be where I am today. She is my rock. Finally, there are so many more people that deserve credit, including my kids, my family, my church family, my friends, my business coaches, etc. All I can do is simply say thank you and pay it forward through my actions and continued development.
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