@co-hoosier i can see from your posts how you'd enjoy that mix. my first firm was a super high end boutique firm that only handled about 15 cases at a time. each one a mega case. i absolutely loved it. everyone was super smart but totally relatable and cool. the cases all had massive recoveries. all referrals from other firms. 90 percent of the cases referred they'd say no to. but the head of the firm was a legend. a rock star everyone knew. so he got those cases. that wasn't something you could go leave and replicate.
so when i did it was always just taking a pile of shit to meet our growing nut every month with one or two good cases a year to get over the hump. but there was nothing fun about it. too many clients. horrible clients. was much more like running a business you didn't like
i knew what kind of law i'd love to practice and how but it's just not attainable.
It’s a different world now. The profession, especially PI work, has dramatically changed, but the lawyers have also changed. Lawyers tend to retreat to niche comfort zones. Overall, lawyers are a different breed than they were 50 years ago during my formative years.
One thing I didn’t mention was child protection work. I supervised and helped out as needed, but the lawyers who did that were highly committed to just that work. I tried to integrate them into general work and it never took root.
@co-hoosier family court? casa type stuff? the legal aid organizations are big into all of that stuff too. incredibly devoted people. the east saint louis office of the old land of lincoln legal assistance was right in the hood and run by a 4'11 harvard law grad. incredible woman.
Child neglect, child abuse, family intervention, termination of parental rights, etc. All the back of the bus social stuff people prefer not to think, or know, about. What some people do to kids is disgusting. Take drugs and alcohol out of the picture and 95% of that caseload goes away.
@co-hoosier oh yeah that's absolutely brutal stuff. my partner's wife is super into all that. they are fostering 3 as we speak. one is 2 and another 17! and a former foster who is now 23 is living in their basement. that's a very different life