About Janice

Janice P. Brown is the founder of Brown Law Group, a seven-lawyer business litigation boutique law firm. Brown Law Group prides itself by providing world-class legal services through a potent, cost efficient model. Ms. Brown is a trial lawyer with extensive trial experience. Brown Law Group represents fortune 500 companies in every market sector, medium to smal companies that seek legal excellence and individuals who understand the benefits of top notch counsel.

Ms. Brown has received many accolades throughout her career, including the following:

    •    Department of Justice – Trial Lawyer of the Year: 1987
    •    California Association of Black Lawyers
         – Lawyer of the Year: 1995
    •    San Diego Women Who Mean Business in the Law: 1998
    •    San Diego County Bar Association
        – Diversity Professional of the Year: 2003
    •    Witkin Legal Professional of the Year: 2003
    •    San Diego Daily Transcript Top 25 Attorneys – Employment: 2005
    •    One of the “50 People to Watch in 2007” – San Diego Magazine - 2007
    •    San Diego’s “10 Coolest Women” – local chapter of Girls Scouts - 2007
    •    Southern California Super Lawyer 2007 and 2008 – San Diego
         (Featured in magazine 2008)    

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.  Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”

I read that quote written by Marianne Williamson over 20 years ago.   I was a lawyer when I read it and though I was proud of my profession and its status, I was not proud of me.  I accepted other people’s perceptions of my limitations, which I now understand were born of theirs.  I was so reactive.  I did not understand that I had choices.  Everything felt as if it were happening to me.  I couldn’t believe that I would have chosen the life I was living if I understood that I had a choice to live.

But I was really stubborn or prideful or both.  I confused my brain for my God, which really interfered with a true understanding of both me and God.  My brain kept me tired and afraid, most of the time; but performing, ah yes, performing – I worked hard, received awards, won cases, but I was afraid of winning too much, losing too big, not being liked, being taken advantage of, judging everything and being judged.  Frankly, just living with my thoughts was a full time job.  I did not even know how I worked or played or loved.  I probably did not do any of them to the best of my ability.

Then, I began to read certain books and attend self development seminars.  I was embarrassed to admit that the books gave me comfort and the seminars gave me clarity.  I was a lawyer; shouldn’t I know how to run my life, when I am hired to help others run theirs?  Luckily for me, there weren’t many lawyers or people I knew attending the seminars.  I could be anonymous.

The books I began to read frightened me, because my trite thoughts did not merit a hard-back book; my life was a paperback book.   I began to study other religions and learned to meditate, practice yoga, and eat differently.  I drank wheatgrass (still don’t like it).  I studied biographies of great people.   I forgave my family and myself.  I embraced abundance and took risks.  I spent money on myself.  That investment has returned a happy person with several successful businesses, a fulfilling life, a loving husband, a thriving legal practice and a supportive family.

Over these past 20 years, I have learned a lot; much of it through unnecessary suffering, though now I see that it had a profound purpose.  The suffering compelled me to learn.  I am a learning enthusiast and I invite you to be one too.  Everyday, I am sponge for new thought, innovation, funny thought, happy thought, deep thought and sometimes even for kicks - shallow thought.  But these new thoughts are rooted to my soul, to my passion and to my power, because now I have learned how to teach what I have learned.  

Beyond Measure is the culmination of 20 years of study and trial and error.  I have merged business tactics, cutting-edge philosophies and proven strategies into a web-based business designed to assist lawyers, business people and entrepreneurs to triumph.  I have applied these strategies to assist me and countless others.  They work.  
Beyond Measure cuts these strategies into bite-sized elements to be easily understood.   Understanding these strategies makes it easier to create new habits.  Success is a habit.  Successful people study and know themselves, plan, communicate effectively, know what they want, have vision, are eager to learn, persistent, driven, visual, auditory, optimistic and funny.   All of these so-called personality traits are habits.  Through a web-based encyclopedia for success and networking, seminars, podcasts and blogs, Beyond Measure teaches its participants to:

• Set and hit written goals
• Create and calendar successful habits
• Create a fitness plan that works
• Integrate lessons from extraordinary people 
• Create and implement a mission statement
• Create a vision statement
• Create and implement a business plan
• Schedule
• Prioritize 
• Create and expand a network
• Increase business opportunities
• Make more money
• Assess personal strengths and weaknesses
• Learn communication strategies
• Find your passion
• Deliver a killer speech
• Understand internet marketing and social networking
• Setting Standards
• Understanding and overcoming roadblocks
• Incorporate a personal coach into your plan
• Taking Risks
• Finding alternative careers

With these tools, and our network of sharing with other like-minded people and groups, we will create the community of successful people that we desire to be part of.  This community will be proud of your accomplishments and encourage you to take the next steps.  We can do it.  You are powerful beyond measure.

Much love,

Janice