Business Law

One of the hardest things to watch is a talented lawyer walk away from the practice. Too often I have seen top-notch attorneys leave because they struggle to find a middle ground between a healthy personal life and a fulfilling legal career. I get it. About 10 years after graduating from law school, I started questioning my own career path. My wife and I just welcomed our first child and I realized I was having a hard time spending enough time …

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Many new lawyers don’t realize soon enough that their reputation is one of their most important assets. What can a new lawyer do to embellish that reputation? First, pay attention to deadlines. We all learned in law school about statutes of limitation. Don’t be that lawyer who has to explain to a client that their suit is barred because you “almost” had the complaint ready when the statute of limitations ran. There were a few times in my …

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