“If you don't have the numbers, you're just flying blind.”
Taxes are stressful, especially if you’re a practicing attorney. Emil Abedian is a CPA and his company, Counsel CPAs, provides tailored financial and tax services to law firms. Attorney Jordan Turk sits down with Emil to talk through a law firm’s ten top tax questions. They break down ways law firms can minimize their tax liability, the biggest misconceptions around trust accounting, advantages and differences in firm structuring, major tax deductions that many law firms are missing out on, and how to make tax season a breeze.
Hacking Law Firm Success is brought to you by Smokeball and hosted by Jordan Turk.
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by guests are their own and their appearance on this podcast does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent.
Jordan Turk
Legal Technology Advisor, Smokeball
Jordan Turk is a practicing attorney in Texas, and is also the Legal Technology Advisor at Smokeball. Her family law expertise includes complex property division and contentious custody cases, as well as appeals and prenuptial agreements. In addition to her family law practice, Jordan is passionate about legal technology and how it can revolutionize firms. To that end, Jordan created her Smokeball series, Hacking Law Firm Success with Jordan Turk, where she interviews law firm founders about how they grew and scaled their practices, as well as their ethos behind managing a firm.
Emil Abedian
CPA/CEO of Counsel CPAs and Advisors
Emil has been practicing accounting for 20 years, originally beginning his career in Sweden and eventually moving to L.A. In this time he has grown to understand his clients needs in the law firm industry very well. Emil knew when he started his practice that the law firm industry was missing something after seeing how many billable hours his clients were losing. Emil strives to ensure he not only offers the best services for his clients but that he can help navigate them in their journey to grow and offer solid metrics and advice to help guide them. Emil is a board member and CFO of Swedish American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Los Angeles and for the Mentor Foundation (USA). Outside of work, Emil enjoys spending time with his wife Narineh, and two children, William and Henry. Emil really enjoys following and watching soccer as well as visiting his native Sweden.
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