Matthew Homann

Matt Homann is the founder of LexThink, a legal innovation consultancy that delivers conferences, retreats and workshops for lawyers and other professionals who want to embrace creative ways to grow their businesses and serve their clients better.

As a dynamic “innovational” speaker, Matt shares innovative pricing strategies, creative marketing techniques, cutting-edge ideas from other industries and professions and proven customer service principles.

As a creative facilitator, Matt helps smart people think together better in engaging, unique and effective ways. He’s worked around the world with legal professionals, and with executives from companies like McDonald’s, HP, IBM, British Petroleum, Nokia, DuPont and Microsoft.

Matt is also the author of the award-winning legal blog “the [non]billable hour,” where he shares innovative ways for lawyers and other professionals be better at what they do. In 2009, he was named a “Legal Rebel” by the American Bar Association Journal.

A recovering lawyer, Matthew has been an idea collector his whole life. He lives in St. Louis with his wife, Jessica and nine year old daughter, Grace.

Matthew Homann One Page Bio (pdf)

Personal Mission Statement

I follow my passions, honor my principles and strive to create something new every single day.
I value intelligence, creativity, passion and wit, and judge my life by the things I experience and not the things I possess.
I focus on delivering “amazing” and “way beyond ordinary” in everything I choose to do.
I choose my clients as carefully as friends, knowing that I work best when they are one in the same.

Upcoming Engagements

2011

March 31: ~~New York City Bar Association (Keynote), New York, NY~~

April 10: ~~Ignite Law, Chicago, IL~~

June 10 -11: ~~Nova Scotia Barrister’s Society (Meeting Facilitation), Halifax, Canada~~

July 30 – August 2: ~~ACLEA Annual Meeting (Meeting Chair), Boston, MA~~

August 7-9: ~~Minnesota CLE Solo & Small Firm Conference (Keynote), Duluth, MN~~

September 14: ~~Arts and Education Council Marketing UnConference, St. Louis, MO~~

September 19: ~~Alaska Bar Innovative Client Service Mini-Retreat, Anchorage, AL~~

September 20: ~~Alaska ALA Chapter Conference, Anchorage, AK~~

October 1: ~~Tennessee CLE Executive Planning Retreat, Nashville, TN~~

November 4: ~~Nova Scotia Rural Lawyers Un-Conference, Bridgewater, Canada~~

November 11: ~~Strategic Retreat for Omaha Bar Association, Omaha, NE~~

November 15: ~~“Networking that Works” Training Session for Private Firm, St. Louis, MO~~

December 13: “Networking that Works” Training Session for Private Firm, Kansas City, MO

2012

January 5: ”Be it Resolved — Top Ten Lawyer Resolutions,” MinnCLE, Minneapolis, MN

January 6: Private Firm Pricing & Client-Service Retreat, Princeton, MN

January 25: Customer Service Staff Retreat, Illinois State Bar Association, Springfield, IL

January 28: ACLEA, New Orleans LA

March 28: PointONE (formerly Ignite Law), Chicago, IL

May 3-4: AVVOCATING Conference, Seattle, WA

May 15-17: Creative Alberta Conference, Edmonton, Alberta